John Le Carré in a scene from The Pigeon Tunnel.
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John le Carré and Ian Fleming, the world’s most famous spy novelists, share experience in UK intelligence and difficult childhoods. But their heroes, George Smiley and James Bond, are very different.
Harold Evans: one of the most respected journalists of his generation.
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Evans is admired for his fearless leadership and tireless campaigning journalism.
Clare Hollingworth’s press card.
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Clare Hollingworth was one of the most accomplished foreign correspondents of the 20th century. Here’s another of her big scoops.
Comrades in treachery: Donald Maclean (left) and Guy Burgess.
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New papers shed light on the aftermath of the dramatic flight of two of the notorious ‘Cambridge Spies’.