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Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming

Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming


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Master of Deception is a biography of Peter Fleming, elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Peter Fleming worked as a travel writer and journalist, serving with distinction throughout World War II and played a crucial role in British intelligence operations in the Far East. This biography ranges from the personal life of Fleming such as his marriage to Celia Johnson, a famous actor of the time, to his extensive military intelligence career which took him from Norway and Greece to the Far East. Framed through the life of Peter Fleming this book offers an in-depth study of British intelligence operations in the Far East during World War II.

Table of Contents:

Chapter One: A New Elizabethan
Chapter Two: Plans and More Plans
Chapter Three: To War in the Frozen North
Chapter Four: A Very British Guerrilla
Chapter Five: A Greek Tragedy
Chapter Six: A Summons to India
Chapter Seven: Burmese Capers and Haversack Ruses
Chapter Eight: Global Strategists and Strategems
Chapter Nine: Dining with Chinese Dragons
Chapter Ten: Total Intelligence: A Common Sense Approach
Chapter Eleven: Building the Organisation
Chapter Twelve: Sleight of Hand in the Order of the Battle
Chapter Thirteen: The Conjurors Take to the Field
Chapter Fourteen: Feints and Noises Off
Chapter Fifteen: The Double Agents' Impressario
Chapter Sixteen: Imaginary Spies and Fantasy Networks
Chapter Seventeen: The Bright Eye of Danger: A Chance with the Chindits
Chapter Eighteen: Enough of War Crimes
Chapter Nineteen: Home is the Hunter



About the Author :
Alan Ogden is currently the archivist of the Grenadier Guards and a lecturer for Martin Randall Travel. His work has focused on the S.O.E in Burma and has been received to critical acclaim.

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A study of the adventurer's wartime capers ... filled with details you couldn't invent. 4/5 stars [Ogden] has researched his subject assiduously. A good part of the book consists of official documents, memoranda and reports written by Fleming himself. These will be of great interest and value to other researchers and historians ... This is a fascinating book. A punctilious and notably well-researched account of Fleming's military career This book has some fascinating parts … A good read This is not a conventional biography, and a bit like Peter Fleming's extraordinarily fertile mind, it wends its way through an oblique and complex subject in a fascinating way ... We get real insights into the problems and challenges; this is an historian's book not a journalist's. Peter Fleming has been best remembered as an adventurous travel writer and brother of author Ian Fleming, making him an uncle of James Bond. In this readable account we are introduced properly to Peter Fleming, the wartime intelligence officer and master of the arts of deception against the Japanese Army in South East Asia. Alan Ogden's well researched biography reveals a little understood period in the life of an exceptional human being.

Alan Ogden's masterly study of Peter Fleming, a man as brilliant as a Second World War intelligence officer (and brother of the better-known Ian) as a Times journalist, is a book about military intelligence at its best during the Second World War.
Fleming's plans for 'stay behind' guerrilla units in Sussex and Kent (to fight the Wehrmacht on British soil, had the Nazis invaded Britain), his courageous (and highly explosive) acts of sabotage against the advancing German forces in Greece, as well as the intricate and intellectually refined strategies of deception and future 'Imperial Intelligence' that he developed to help win the war in the Far East, make this crisp study of the breadth and the depth of Fleming's skills a gripping introduction to the field.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781350266094
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Sub Title: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1350266094
  • Publisher Date: 24 Feb 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 616 gr


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