Client details
Michael Smith
Agent
| Robert Kirby |
About
| Michael Smith writes on defense and security issues for the Sunday Times. He is the journalist who broke the Downing Street Memos which showed that George Bush and Tony Blair agreed in April 2002 to invade Iraq regardless of what the UN decided. He was specialist writer of the year in the 2006 UK press awards. Born in 1952, he served with the British Army for 15 years before moving to the BBC. He joined the Daily Telegraph in 1990 and went to the Sunday Times in 2005. He has reported on the 1991 Gulf War, and on successive conflicts in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Smith is the author of the number one bestseller Station X; The Spying Game; and Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews, which led to the official Israeli recognition of the former MI6 officer Frank Foley as Righteous Among Nations, the same award given to Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler. His latest book Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America’s Most Secret Special Operations Team was published in February 2006. Michael is currently working on the second part of his epic history of Britain's spooks - to follow SIX: A HISTORY OF BRITAIN'S SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE |
Gallery
SIX: A HISTORY OF BRITAIN'S SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE 
Killer Elite 
Foley: The Spy who saved 10,000 Jews 
The Emperor's Codes 
Station X 
The Spying Game
Non-Fiction
| Publication Details | Notes |
|---|---|
| SIX: A HISTORY OF BRITAIN'S SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE 2010 Dialogue | This first part of acclaimed author Michael Smith s epic history of Britain s spooks begins with the creation of the Secret Service Bureau in 1909 to prevent German spies uncovering the UK s secrets and provide a deniable team of spies to infiltrate the Kaiser s Germany. It goes on to detail the extraordinary British successes during the first Cold War of the 1920s and 30s before coming full circle, recording the previously untold work against Nazi Germany ahead of the Second Cold War. This is the first comprehensive account of the successes and failures of Britain s secret service during the First World War and the critical period between the two world wars when British and Russian spies saw each other as the main enemy . Smith makes extensive use of private and public archives and personal accounts from across the world to reveal stunning new detail on the murder and mayhem carried out by Britain s spooks in the name of the King. Official histories of the first 100 years of Britain s spies remain unable to name the heroes and villains of the spy world for reasons of secrecy, but Smith s account is full of both, revealing new heroes of espionage who rival more familiar names like Sidney Reilly, the so-called Ace of Spies, for their bravery and ability to outsmart their German and Russian opponents and dastardly new villains. This first part of Six examines the murder and mayhem by British spooks that formed the foundations for the greatest intelligence rivalry of all time, between the predecessors of the KGB and MI6, including the remarkable espionage successes enjoyed by Britain s Secret Intelligence Service, stealing the hidden-most secrets of the Kaiser s Germany and Bolshevik Russia and destroying their plans for world domination. |
| KILLER ELITE 2006 Phoenix | The inside story of America`s most successful elite military unit credited with capturing Saddam Hussein. |
| FOLEY: THE SPY WHO SAVED 10,000 JEWS 2004 Politico's Publishing Ltd | This book uncovers the story of an unknown British war hero and his tale of bravery. |
| STATION X: THE CODE BREAKERS OF BLETCHLEY PARK 2004 Pan; Revised edition | This is the story of the breaking of the Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II. |
| THE EMPEROR'S CODES: BLETCHLEY PARK'S ROLE IN BREAKING JAPAN'S SECRET CIPHERS 2004 Bantam | The fascinating story of how Japan's secret wartime codes were broken, from the author of the bestselling Station X. |
| THE SPYING GAME 2003 Politico's Publishing Ltd | Covers economic intelligence and the fight against organised crime as well as the activities of MI5, MI6, the Defence Intelligence Staff and GCHQ. |
