No one seemed to know why so many conflicts suddenly erupted and reached a point of no return, since most people in Britain had only just enjoyed their highest quality of life ever. Tensions stretched into fury in London, setting almost everyone at each other's throats. Terrorism added to the chaos. Some expected an explosion of civil war. Britain's Secret Service struggled to restore order. It was at that critical moment when a young and romantic adventurer applied to join them as a confidential agent.
This novel is about how he became the most audacious and successful spy in history, where he came from, and how he helped to turn Britain's secret intelligence services into MI5 and MI6 - the most effective secret services in the world. It is also about what happened to him after he suddenly vanished from the sight of Western eyes.
"To add to all the confusion about Reilly, his secret Admiralty Intelligence file formed the basis for Ian Fleming's series of novels or thrillers about a fictional secret agent whom he named James Bond 007 in 1953."
Hunt For a Double Spy. (page 362)
How Churchill Saved Civilization
1930-1945
World War Two and The Epic Story of 13 Years That Almost Destroyed the Civilized World.
Churchill: The Young Warrior
1914-1918
How He Helped Win the First World War
NEW SECOND EDITION
on the 100th Anniversary
of Armistice
Churchill: The Young Rebel
1910-1940
Waiting For The Next World War.
Churchill: Britain's Last Hero
1944-1965
How the Empire was lost and a victorious Britain became transformed, ultimately provoking the "Brexit" vote to leave the EU.
" Equally informative and entertaining, Churchill the Young Warrior covers the formative period of one of the most formidable and influential figures of the twentieth century. In stylish prose and with a perceptive eye for color, detail, and context, Mr. Harte follows Churchill the soldier, journalist, and politician. The author parallels Churchill's public career and private life with a trenchant analysis of the political, military, diplomatic, economic, social, and cultural climate that simultaneously invigorated and roiled Europe during the three decades leading up to the Great War. "
EDWARD LONGACRE
author of: General Ulysses S. Grant, the Soldier and the Man
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it!
John Harte was born in London, England, between the two World Wars. He absorbed the experiences and lessons of the first world war while growing up in its aftermath, and lived through the second one.
The fact that the author was born when London was the center of the British Empire and the free world, politically, financially, socially and culturally, invests his books about Winston Churchill and England with particular significance, since few people are left who can describe at first-hand what it was really like.
He witnessed at first hand the bombing of London and the Battle of Britain; the launching of the D-Day landings from England's south coast, and the enemy's V1 and V2 rocket attacks intended to destroy London and its population.
He began his writing career as a playwright with four plays produced in London theaters. He was also an investigative journalist writing for three leading publications in the UK.
After moving to South Africa to work in the advertising industry with J. Walter Thompson, he also wrote freelance feature articles for the two leading newspapers, which were syndicated worldwide by Reuters, and he also broadcast his own stories on the SABC.
He now lives in Ottawa, Canada.
representation: Steven Harris, CSG Literary Partners
in the Digital Age
John Harte's new book on the influence of digital technologies on leadership, management and marketing, reveals the poor judgments of major conglomerates who chose to deindustrialize the UK and USA by offshoring production, and risk weakening their brands by reversing the process back to factory orientation; thereby creating massive unemployment and our present economic crisis.
published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group (2016)
and Business Revolution
John Harte's first book on leadership and management was described by one enthusiastic reviewer as "a masterpiece". It describes the steady progress from factory orientation in the English Industrial Revolution to the American era of selling, then advertising, and finally sophisticated marketing orientation.
published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group (2016)