"C": the secret life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, spymaster to Winston Churchill
Biographies, Histoire, Guerre, Europe (histoire), Espionnage
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Résumé
Biography of the "ruthless, devious, and subtle man" who headed British intelligence during World War II and was said to be the model for "M" in the James Bond stories. Rumored to be the natural son of Edward VII, Sir… Stewart Menzies belonged to the generation of "golden lads" that all but perished in 1914. An Etonian and World War I hero, he devoted himself to counterintelligence, finally emerging as "C"--chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service--just as World War II began