My Life as a Spy

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Macmillan, 2005 - 246 עמודים
A warm and witty memoir of one man's coming of age in the cold war. A wry and poignant literary memoir that follows the adventures of a young lad from Halifax as he is put through grim RAF National Service training camps and Russian language schools before being despatched to an inhospitable, cold-warBerlin on a pointless tour of duty. A hugely evocative tale of coming of age in post-war Britain and a a wry take on one young man's reluctant and eventually absurd role spying for her Majesty.

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Leslie Woodhead is one of Britain’s most distinguished documentary makers. From the mid-60s he worked as a Producer and Director on Granada TV’s “World in Action”, later becoming Series Editor. His pioneering films, often on major Eastern European themes, have won many awards, including a BAFTA and Royal Television Society Award. In 1994, he gained an OBE for Services to Television. In addition to many articles for the national press, he has previously written an account of film-making with a remote African tribe, A Box Full Of Spirits (Heinemann, 1987).

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