The Original: Too old to enlist in WWI, Somerset Maugham - TopicsExpress



          

The Original: Too old to enlist in WWI, Somerset Maugham volunteered to drive ambulances in France. Then he was recruited by British Intelligence to work as an agent against the Berlin Committee. In 1917 he went to Russia to attempt peacekeeping work, but was sent just too late - the Bolshevik revolution happened only two months later. Maugham used his spy experience as the basis for Ashenden: Or the British Agent, a collection of short stories about a sophisticated, aloof spy (considered by many an early prototype of Ian Fleming’s James Bond.) More The Rebels Of Spy And Suspense here: buzzfeed/vintagebooksandanchorbooks/the-rebels-of-spy-and-suspense-ep6s
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:21:13 +0000

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