Queen of spies
Subtitle: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master
By: Paddy Hayes
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781468312683
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Great Britain. MI6; British Espionage; Spies; Great Britain; History; Biography; Women spies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Moscow, April 1956; title: From Kayuki to Clapham, 1921-32; title: Born now bred, 1932-43; title: SOE 1: Bingham's Unit, 1943-44; title: SOE 2: Coup de foudre, 1944; title: SOE 3: Daffers goes to war, 1944; title: Vienna role, 1946-48; title: A world changing, 1947-48; title: Into the lion's den, 1948-51; title: Moscow bound, 1951-54; title: Moscow 1: either silence or prison, 1954; title: Moscow 2: the squirrel and his nuts, 1955; title: Moscow 3: the strange affair of Yevgeni Brik, 1956; title: Moscow 4: Annus horribilis, 1956; title: From SovBloc to sun-block, 1957-59; title: Congo 1: into the cauldron, 1959; title: Congo 2: on the eve of destruction, 1959-60; title: Congo 3: seven months to murder, 1960-61; title: Congo 4: who killed Cock Robin? Not I, said the spy, 1961; title: Bewitched, bothered, bewildered...and betrayed, 1962-64; title: Back in the field, 1964-67; title: Reform at last, 1967-69; title: Hanoi 1: spy station Hanoi, 1969-70; title: Hanoi 2: though never quite enough to ask for another year, 1969-70; title: What Daphne did next, 1970-74; title: C/WH 1: spymaster, 1975-77; title: C/WH 2: finale: Rhodesia and the ending of UDI, 1978-79; title: Return to Somerville, 1980-89; title: Daphne Park: a life extraordinary.