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Written at an electric pace ... McKenna’s is an unremitting adventure (Hang Deretz All About History 17/02/2016)
This re-issue of a gripping tale of the wartime adventures of a legendary heroine, perhaps ranking alongside the legendary Violette Szabo, is one to be welcomed. Churchill was not the only one who could not stop reading this until 4am! (Andy Saunders Britain at War Magazine 17/02/2016)
‘Straight out of Boys' Own Paper! I was reading stories like this in my comics in the 1950s, never quite able to believe that such things actually happened, and that such people actually really existed!’ (Paul Norman Books Monthly 17/02/2016)
Enid Blyton meets James Bond in a rip-roaring memoir. (Arifa Akbar The Independent 17/02/2016)
A brilliant first-hand Account of the career of one of the greatest spies of World War I. (Dr John Rickard History of War 17/02/2016)
Review:
This re-issue of a gripping tale of the wartime adventures of a legendary heroine, perhaps ranking alongside the legendary Violette Szabo, is one to be welcomed. Churchill was not the only one who could not stop reading this until 4am! (Andy Saunders Britain at War Magazine 17/02/2016)
‘Straight out of Boys' Own Paper! I was reading stories like this in my comics in the 1950s, never quite able to believe that such things actually happened, and that such people actually really existed!’ (Paul Norman Books Monthly 17/02/2016)
Enid Blyton meets James Bond in a rip-roaring memoir. (Arifa Akbar The Independent 17/02/2016)
A brilliant first-hand Account of the career of one of the greatest spies of World War I. (Dr John Rickard History of War 17/02/2016)
Enid Blyton meets James Bond in a rip-roaring memoir --The Independent - 05/11/2015
Mrs McKenna writes without a trace of sensationalism, but this very restraint renders more impressive the grim and dramatic episodes she relates ... As a contributions to the literature of the Secret Service, Spies I Knew deserves special praise. --Sunday Times
A thrilling narrative, bristling with hair-breadth escapes --Evening Standard
Mrs McKenna writes without a trace of sensationalism, but this very restraint renders more impressive the grim and dramatic episodes she relates ... As a contributions to the literature of the Secret Service, Spies I Knew deserves special praise. --Sunday Times
A thrilling narrative, bristling with hair-breadth escapes --Evening Standard
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- PublisherKessinger Publishing
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1430474076
- ISBN 13 9781430474074
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages324
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