{"id":27229,"date":"2017-09-19T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/?p=27229"},"modified":"2017-09-18T19:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T19:34:50","slug":"spy-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/19\/spy-master\/","title":{"rendered":"Spy Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My love of John Le Carr\u00e9 has given me a fascination for the early years of the security and intelligence services. The history is by turns head thumpingly annoying, serendipitous, awesome adventure tale, calamitous and inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My friend Tom pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyhitpodcast.com\/m-maxwell-knight-mi5s-greatest-spymaster-henry-hemming\/\">Dan Snow&#8217;s History Hit<\/a> podcast on Maxwell Knight, the MI5 spymaster in the run-up to World War 2 and beyond. He&#8217;s interviewing his biographer, Henry Hemming. I can&#8217;t recommend it enough. I&#8217;ve read a lot around this topic but this gave you a real sense of the political climate in Britain in the twenties and thirties. After listening I can&#8217;t wait to read the book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In times when the world seems insane, you can get a better sense of what is going on by looking to the past.\u00a0This gives you that sense of perspective, even if it isn&#8217;t particularly comforting. Despite that it always inspiring to listen to intelligent people talking about their passions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My love of John Le Carr\u00e9 has given me a fascination for the early years of the security and intelligence services. The history is by turns head thumpingly annoying, serendipitous, awesome adventure tale, calamitous and inspiring. &nbsp; &nbsp; My friend Tom pointed me to Dan Snow&#8217;s History Hit podcast on Maxwell Knight, the MI5 spymaster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[219],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bt41lw9i6kc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27233,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27229\/revisions\/27233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}