24/01/2025
A Dangerous Enterprise: Secret War at Sea
This is ‘gung-ho’ and reads like a cloak and dagger spy thriller which, in a way, it is. The real Fleming and the fictitious James Bond both feature and so do many other fascinating characters from SOE, SIS, MI9, from the RN and the RNVR.
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20/09/2024
A Spiffy Tale of MI6 Legend “Biffy” Dunderdale
BOOK REVIEW: A Suspicion of Spies: Risks, Secrets and Shadows – the life of Wilfred ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale.
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14/09/2024
Meet ‘Biffy’ – MI6 officer, bold seducer and 007 inspiration
The veteran spy Wilfred Dunderdale battled the Bolsheviks and took Josephine Baker to bed, as Tim Spicer’s A Suspicion of Spies reveals.
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13/09/2024
The name’s Bond… ‘Biffy’ Bond? The real-life sailor, spy and friend of Ian Fleming who ‘inspired 007’
The Bond-like adventures of Biffy began in 1916 in Russia and appear straight from the pages of 007 thrillers.
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07/09/2024
The spy with the bullet-proof Rolls-Royce
Stationed in Paris from 1926 to 1940, the wealthy, debonair ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale, often seen as a model for James Bond, was also a supremely effective intelligence officer.
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