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Ben Macintyre
Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre (born 25 December 1963) is a British writer. He has written many books, and received numerous awards for both fiction and non-fiction works.
Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre was born on 25 December 1963, in Oxford, the elder son of Angus Donald Macintyre (d. 1994), a fellow and tutor in modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Joanna, daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave Harvey, 2nd Baronet and a descendant of Berkeley Paget. His paternal grandmother was a descendant of James Netterville, 7th Viscount Netterville.
Macintyre was educated at Abingdon School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in history in 1985.
Macintyre is the author of a book on the gentleman criminal Adam Worth, The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief.[when?][citation needed]
He also wrote The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan, about Josiah Harlan.[citation needed] This was also published as Josiah the Great: The True Story of the Man who Would be King (2004). Harlan is one of the candidates presumed to be the basis for Rudyard Kipling's short story The Man Who Would Be King.[citation needed]
He is the author of a book on Eddie Chapman, a double agent of Germany and Britain during the World War II, Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy.[when?][citation needed]
In 2008, Macintyre wrote an illustrated account of Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional spy James Bond, to accompany the For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming and James Bond exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum, which was part of the Fleming Centenary celebrations.
Macintyre's 2010 book Operation Mincemeat first brought Hester Leggatt's possible contributions to Operation Mincemeat to mainstream attention, although the book misspelt her name as "Leggett".
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Ben Macintyre
Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre (born 25 December 1963) is a British writer. He has written many books, and received numerous awards for both fiction and non-fiction works.
Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre was born on 25 December 1963, in Oxford, the elder son of Angus Donald Macintyre (d. 1994), a fellow and tutor in modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Joanna, daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave Harvey, 2nd Baronet and a descendant of Berkeley Paget. His paternal grandmother was a descendant of James Netterville, 7th Viscount Netterville.
Macintyre was educated at Abingdon School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in history in 1985.
Macintyre is the author of a book on the gentleman criminal Adam Worth, The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief.[when?][citation needed]
He also wrote The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan, about Josiah Harlan.[citation needed] This was also published as Josiah the Great: The True Story of the Man who Would be King (2004). Harlan is one of the candidates presumed to be the basis for Rudyard Kipling's short story The Man Who Would Be King.[citation needed]
He is the author of a book on Eddie Chapman, a double agent of Germany and Britain during the World War II, Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy.[when?][citation needed]
In 2008, Macintyre wrote an illustrated account of Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional spy James Bond, to accompany the For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming and James Bond exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum, which was part of the Fleming Centenary celebrations.
Macintyre's 2010 book Operation Mincemeat first brought Hester Leggatt's possible contributions to Operation Mincemeat to mainstream attention, although the book misspelt her name as "Leggett".