“Before becoming headmaster of Eton, Claude Elliott had taught history at Cambridge University, despite an ingrained distrust of academics and an aversion to intellectual conversation. But the long university vacations gave him plenty of time for mountain climbing.” — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“When told to do something, he tended to “obey not the order which he had actually been given by a superior, but rather the… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther had written “Know, Christian, that next to the devil thou hast no enemy more cruel, more venomous and violent than a true… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting… — Ben MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“In a brilliant lecture written in 1944, C. S. Lewis described the fatal British obsession with the “inner ring,” the belief that somewhere, just… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Before becoming headmaster of Eton, Claude Elliott had taught history at Cambridge University, despite an ingrained distrust of academics and an aversion to intellectual… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“The word most consistently used to describe Kim Philby was "charm", that intoxicating, beguiling and occasionally lethal English quality.” — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Professor J. B. S. Haldane was one of the most celebrated scientists in Britain. A pioneering and broad-ranging thinker, he developed a mathematical theory… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Far from being repelled by the duplicity around him, Elliott felt ever more drawn to the game of skulduggery and double cross. The Venlo… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“CAPTAIN RAMIREZ: “Ootunondumi rabo Caaguazu.” FRANCISCO: “Bokinmaginum sinking.” RAMIREZ: “Help.” — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
