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The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Michael Smith served in British military intelligence before becoming an award-winning journalist with the BBC, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times, covering the wars in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. He is an expert on special operations and intelligence with extremely good contacts inside Britain’s intelligence and special forces community and a track record of breaking stories previously kept top secret. He is the author of a number of widely acclaimed books about spies and special forces including the Sunday Times No 1 bestseller Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park. Robert Hannigan, former GCHQ Director, has described him as “the pre-eminent historian of Bletchley Park”.
His many best-selling books also include Killer Elite: America’s Most Secret Special Operations Team, which reveals the secret history of “The Activity”, a top secret US Army intelligence unit which works alongside Delta and Seal Team Six to track down terrorists and other threats to America; and Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews, which led to Israeli recognition of the former MI6 officer Frank Foley as Righteous Among Nations, the same award granted to Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg. His most recent book is the widely acclaimed The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Intelligence Services Work Together. Sir John Scarlett, former MI6 Chief, said “this excellent book gives a detailed, highly professional account of the unique intelligence relationship” while former CIA Director John Brennan described it as “a fascinating, meticulously researched and deeply insightful book … a remarkably good read”.
Smith is currently working on a follow-up to his first novel Ritter: No Man Dies Twice, based on a Second World War plot to kill Hitler, which was published 2022 by Safe House.
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