AWW23: Spooks and the Stories They Spin - Ben Macintyre

Published: March 23, 2023, 11:07 p.m.

Chair: Tony Jones

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Ben Macintyre, the bestselling author of\xa0The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Zigzag\xa0and\xa0Operation Mincemeat, combines a literary gift for thrilling espionage writing with the rigour of a historian. His latest work,\xa0Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle, explores the astonishing true story of prisoners inside an \u2019inescapable\u2019 Nazi prison camp in the Second World War. Macintyre talks to Tony Jones about his oeuvre and what it means to write a nonfiction novel.

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Event details: Sun 05 Mar, 10:45am on the East Stage