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Letters Dr Mike Davis responds to a reader who asked why knowledge of German would attract the attention of secret intelligence British troops in battle in the second world war. Mike Davis’s father was captured in 1940 after not making it back to Dunkirk, and learned German and Polish while at a PoW camp in Poland. Photograph: CSU Archives/Everett Collect/Rex British troops in battle in the second world war. Mike Davis’s father was captured in 1940 after not making it back to Dunkirk, and learned German and Polish while at a PoW camp in Poland. Photograph: CSU Archives/Everett Colle...

What it really takes to be a modern day spy If you are interested in becoming the next George Smiley, here's what you need to know about serving the State. From an insider 16 December 2020 • 11:30am One of us: Richard Burton as Alec Leamas in The Spy Who Came In From the Cold Credit: Alamy Stock The biggest change for the British intelligence community came about due to avowal - when the government admitted - in 1989 for the Security Service and 1994 for MI6 and GCHQ - that these agencies existed. Prior to that, any public questioning was simply met with a “we can neither confirm nor deny...

Readers share their views on the author of spy novels, who has died aged 89 John le Carré pictured in his London home in 2008. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP John le Carré pictured in his London home in 2008. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Letters Tue 15 Dec 2020 13.03 EST Last modified on Tue 15 Dec 2020 14.36 EST Regarding the political insight of John le Carré (Obituary, 14 December), it was in the Guardian, in an interview with Stuart Jeffries (‘I do give a damn’, 6 October 2005), that Le Carré suggested that Britain might be sliding towards fascism. “Mu...

Review: Agent Running In The Field By John Le Carré | Viking 281 pages – $29 Langan’s Book Mark: 4/4 stars In spy craft ‘agent running in the field’ is the job of an experienced, mid-level type whose skills and allegiances – or lack of the latter – don’t enable him to go higher in the service. This is the cloud that hangs over Nat’s professional life that he is trying to ignore at the beginning of John Le Carré’s new novel. Nat is a forty-seven-year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service. He knows that after twenty-five years running agents his time has pa...

Last Updated: 15th December, 2020 16:58 IST John Le Carre Passes Away At 89, Here Is A List Of Some Of His Best Novels John Le Carre was a British novelist, best known for his spy novels. The author passed away today after a brief illness. Read on to know about his best works. British writer David John Moore Cornwell, better known by his pen name, John le Carre has died at the age of 89, following a short illness. The cause behind the author's demise was pneumonia. Tributes poured in from the literary world with Stephen King calling him 'a literary giant and a humanitarian spirit'. ...