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Jimmy Burns is an author and journalist. Among his previous books are The Land That Lost Its Heroes (Somerset Maugham non-fiction prize, 1987), Hand of God: The Life of Diego Maradona and Barca: A People's Passion. He lives in London.
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The author’s father served the British cause in World War II as a press attaché at the Madrid embassy, a role Burns fils researched for this book. Certain credentials commended Burns père to the diplomatic post: a Catholic, he was a socially connected editor who supported the Nationalists in the Spanish civil war. As he looked into his father’s activities in Spain, Burns discovered two original sources: correspondence with a love interest, Ann Bowes-Lyon, a cousin of the queen, and an MI5 dossier—the counterintelligence service suspected him of being too pro-Franco and possibly a German agent. Integrated with extant histories, Burns’ new information depicts a historical setting of the kind of intrigue that tempts spy novelists such as Alan Furst. In the real secret war with the Nazis, Thomas Burns’ efforts apparently were not confined to propaganda and press relations. Recounting his father’s extracurricular work, the author levelly assesses their results without overrating their effect on Britain’s strategic aim of keeping Spain neutral. The audience for WWII espionage should warm to Burns’ tale. --Gilbert Taylor
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0747595208
- ISBN 13 9780747595205
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages395
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In the 1930s Tom Burns was a rising star of British publishing, whose friends and authors included G. K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, the artist Eric Gill and the poet David Jones. And among his glittering social circle he had set his heart on the beautiful Ann Bowes-Lyon, cousin of the Queen. When war was declared in 1939, Burns joined the Ministry of Information, effectively the propaganda wing of the secret services. Sent to Madrid as press attache at the British Embassy, where the Ambassador was the formidable and very Protestant Sir Samuel Hoare, Burns used his faith and his deep love of Spain in the propaganda war against the Nazis, who at the time had pretty much unrestricted access to the Spanish media. Burns' brief was to do all in his power to keep Franco neutral and so protect Gibraltar and access to the western Mediterranean. The strategy was simple, but the tactics were more complicated, especially when Burns found he had begun to make enemies at home, not least among them Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt, head of the MI6's Iberian section. By 1941 he felt far from the real fighting, Ann had pledged herself to another man, and Burns was spending as much time protecting his back as fighting the Nazis. How he overcame these odds, was involved in the Man Who Never Was decoy plot, arranged Leslie Howard's fatal propaganda trip to Portugal and Spain, and finally found true love while loyally serving his country is the story told in this extraordinary book by his son. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001881324
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