Queen of spies : Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master /
by Hayes, Paddy.
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BookPublisher: London : Duckworth, 2020Description: 384 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780715654057 (pbk.) :; 0715654055 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 920 PARSubject(s): Park of Monmouth, Daphne Margaret Sybil Desiree Park, Baroness, 1921-2010 | Great Britain. MI6 | Women intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Biography | Intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Biography | Biography | BiographySummary: From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es-Salaam 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 - an extraordinary achievement for a woman working within this most male-dominated and secretive of organisations. Paddy Hayes recounts the fascinating story of 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.
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Originally published: New York: Overlook: Duckworth, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es-Salaam 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 - an extraordinary achievement for a woman working within this most male-dominated and secretive of organisations. Paddy Hayes recounts the fascinating story of 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.
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