John Harte

When a twenty-year-old Ukrainian arrived in London as a candidate for the position of secret agent in Britain's Secret Intelligence Bureau, the chiefs of what would one day become MI5 were wise to hire him, as he would become Britain's greatest spy, a man known by several names.His ingenuity and his mastery of the trade, and his audacity and coolness...

Remarkably ambitious in scope, Harte manages to knit together a social and cultural history of these years, including how Churchill both influenced the world and was defined by the issues of the day. Harte wants to show when and where the 'scrawny little twenty-year-old second lieutenant became a global leader.' The question is not a new one, but it never...

When Nazi Germany began a secret weapons programme called 'The Uranium Club' in April 1939, Stalin was alerted by his American and British spies of the possibility that German scientists were working to develop an atomic bomb. The British Government and the United States, and Stalin, realised that if Hitler used The Atom Bomb, it could mean the end of...