{"id":117,"date":"2002-10-22T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-22T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2002\/10\/my_secret_war\/"},"modified":"2002-10-22T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-22T15:29:00","slug":"my_secret_war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/my_secret_war\/","title":{"rendered":"My Secret War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Philby died some years ago, but fortunately, his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0375759832\">autobiography <\/a>has just been republished in the States.  (A quick note that I ordered this book from Amazon.com in the States some months ago before it had been published. Once it had been published, it shows up on Amazon.co.uk at a significantly cheaper price &#8211; particularly when postage is taken into account).<br \/>\nI decided to get it after watching the TV Play <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0076541\">Philby, Burgess and Maclean <\/a>on BBC Four a few months ago which was made in 1977.<br \/>\nPhilby&#8217;s own story is quite interesting but sadly lacking in some of the necessary details.  You&#8217;d want to hear more about the how&#8217;s, but of course he speaks nothing of that, nor details about how he passed on information to his handlers.<br \/>\nI suppose the most fascinating part is when he&#8217;s been effectively chucked out of the service, and yet he&#8217;s not arrested for treason.  Then he works as a journalist in the Middle East for a number of years before finally, out of necessity, being spirited away.  I really feel that I need to read a third party book about his effect on the service to gain some idea of the problems, and indeed, deaths he&#8217;ll have been responsible for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Philby died some years ago, but fortunately, his autobiography has just been republished in the States. (A quick note that I ordered this book from Amazon.com in the States some months ago before it had been published. Once it had been published, it shows up on Amazon.co.uk at a significantly cheaper price &#8211; particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}