Patricia Craig, 20 December 1984
The man who was M: The Life of Maxwell Knight by Anthony Masters.
Blackwell, 205 pp., £9.95, November 1984, 0 631 13392 5Show More Unreliable Witness: Espionage Myths of the Second World War by Nigel West.
Weidenfeld, 166 pp., £8.95, October 1984, 0 297 78481 1Show More The Great Betrayal: The Untold Story of Kim Philby’s Biggest Coup by Nicholas Bethell.
Hodder, 214 pp., £9.95, October 1984, 0 340 35701 0Show More “... partly as a consequence of an interview given by Joan Miller to the Sunday Times journalist Barrie Penrose (18 October 1981). Masters, sticking closely to the facts as set out in this piece, gives an unfair degree of credit to Joan Miller, while completely ignoring the contribution of another of Knight’s agents, a Belgian girl named Hélène de Monck. I ...”
