Quotes About Ben Macintyre

I love nonfiction the most. It's hard to find a good nonfiction story, and that's why I'm not as prolific, I guess, as a lot of people. They're hard to find. I love the nonfiction writer Ben Macintyre. I think he's terrific at the form of telling a story in a cinematic way.

On the other hand, his interest in table tennis was neither puzzling nor malign. He just liked table tennis. The hunt for the Table Tennis Ring was a vivid red herring.

It did his career no longterm damage, but Dudley Clarke's strange episode of cross-dressing remains an enduring mystery.

Eddie Chapman, the wartime crook and double agent known as Agent ZIGZAG, considered himself a patriotic hero (which he was), but he was also greedy, opportunistic, and fickle, hence his code name.

journalists (another tribe adept at misremembering the past)

As "a spur to rumor-spreading,"32 the crew was solemnly sworn to secrecy.

He revealed nothing about Ursula's activities and his own work on behalf of Soviet intelligence.

Aberbargoed was a grim place a century ago, a brooding village of coal-dusted sadness.

Secretly, he began to smuggle the family library out of the country: about two-thirds of the fifty thousand volumes would be saved.

increased legibility of his handwriting only serves to reveal the inadequacy of his ability to spell

'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.