My Life as a Spy.My Life as a Spy Leslie Woodhead Isis Publishing LTD LTD 1 Laron-type dwarfism 2 Leukotriene D 3 Long-term depression, see there 4. Long-term disability . 7 Centremead, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES 0753193663 $32.50 Written by RAF veteran and former Cold War-era spy Leslie Woodhead, My Life as a Spy is a life story of the author's coming of age in trying times. Summoned to serve Her Majesty at the tender age of eighteen, Woodhead was trained in the Joint Services School for Linguistics on the East coast of Scotland, taught a course of total immersion in Russian, and posted to an ex-Luftwaffe base in Berlin, which still bore the marks of World War II. Serving as a clandestine informer Informer Battus revealed theft by Mercury; turned to touchstone. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 47] Cenci, Count Francesco old libertine ravishes his daughter Beatrice. [Br. Lit. amid the ruins of a city immersed in paranoia, Woodhead's true story tells of darkness, deception, imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. , brutal interrogation interrogation In criminal law, process of formally and systematically questioning a suspect in order to elicit incriminating responses. The process is largely outside the governance of law, though in the U.S. , and the harsh reality of daily life as a spy that was nothing like the fantasies of his boyhood. Highly recommended. |
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