Buckingham Literary Festival: Henry Hemming - Maxwell Knight MI5's Greatest Spymaster
Would you make a good spy? To find out, come to Henry Hemming’s gripping talk about two remarkable female spies and the man who ran them – Maxwell Knight, an animal-loving drop-out who went on to become MI5’s greatest spymaster. This is the dramatic true story of a maverick MI5 officer who recruited two women in the 1930s to penetrate the British Communist movement; women whose skillful, deft work led to the exposure of a Soviet spy-ring, a famous court case and one of them being hailed as ‘Brit
10.30AM-11.30AM
Tickets cost just £10 each and can be purchased up to – and during – the Festival, subject to availability, from:
The Festival Website www.bucklitfest.org
The University Bookshop
Radcliffe Centre, Church St, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire MK18 1EG
Sun 2 Jul 2017