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- English
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About this book
This "fascinating and long overdue" biography reveals the remarkable life of a Baroness who was one of Britain's most celebrated spies (
Washington Post).
From living in a shack in Tanzania to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life—one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of Britain's secret services. In the 1970s, she was appointed to Secret Intelligence Service's most senior operational rank as one of its seven Area Controllers.
In Queen of Spies, Paddy Hayes recounts the evolution of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from World War II to the Cold War through the eyes of Daphne Park, one of its outstanding and most unusual operatives. It is a fascinating and intimate narrative of how the modern SIS went about its business whether in Moscow, Hanoi, or the Congo, and shows how Park was able to rise through the ranks of a field that had been comprised almost entirely of men.
Queen of Spies captures all the paranoia, isolation, and deception of Cold War intelligence work, and combines it with the personal story of one extraordinary woman trying to navigate this secretive world. It is "as exciting as any good spy thriller—but it's all true" ( Kirkus, starred review).
From living in a shack in Tanzania to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life—one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of Britain's secret services. In the 1970s, she was appointed to Secret Intelligence Service's most senior operational rank as one of its seven Area Controllers.
In Queen of Spies, Paddy Hayes recounts the evolution of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from World War II to the Cold War through the eyes of Daphne Park, one of its outstanding and most unusual operatives. It is a fascinating and intimate narrative of how the modern SIS went about its business whether in Moscow, Hanoi, or the Congo, and shows how Park was able to rise through the ranks of a field that had been comprised almost entirely of men.
Queen of Spies captures all the paranoia, isolation, and deception of Cold War intelligence work, and combines it with the personal story of one extraordinary woman trying to navigate this secretive world. It is "as exciting as any good spy thriller—but it's all true" ( Kirkus, starred review).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Author’s Note
- Prologue – Moscow, April 1956
- 1. From Kayuki to Clapham, 1921-32
- 2. Born now bred, 1932-43
- 3. SOE 1 – Bingham’s unit, 1943-44
- 4. SOE 2 – Coup de foudre, 1944
- 5. SOE 3 – Daffers goes to war, 1944
- 6. Vienna role, 1946-48
- 7. A world changing, 1947-48
- 8. Into the lion’s den, 1948-51
- 9. Moscow bound, 1951-54
- 10. Moscow 1 – Either silence or prison, 1954
- 11. Moscow 2 – The squirrel and his nuts, 1955
- 12. Moscow 3 – The strange affair of Yevgeni Brik, 1956
- 13. Moscow 4 – Annus horribilis, 1956
- 14. From SovBloc to sun-block, 1957-59
- 15. Congo 1 – Into the cauldron, 1959
- 16. Congo 2 – On the eve of destruction, 1959-60
- 17. Congo 3 – Seven months to murder, 1960-61
- 18. Congo 4 – Who killed Cock Robin? Not I, said the spy, 1961
- 19. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered … and betrayed, 1962-64
- 20. Back in the field, 1964-67
- 21. Reform at last, 1967-69
- 22. Hanoi 1 – Spy station Hanoi, 1969-70
- 23. Hanoi 2 – ‘Though never quite enough to ask for another year’, 1969-70
- 24. What Daphne did next, 1970-74
- 25. C/WH 1 – Spymaster, 1975-77
- 26. C/WH 2 – Finale: Rhodesia and the ending of UDI, 1978-79
- 27. Return to Somerville, 1980-89
- 28. Daphne Park: a life extraordinary
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix: timeline of Daphne Park’s life
- Notes on Sources
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author