by Peter Matthews · The History Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780750984164
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«House of Spies» is Peter Matthews's historical essay on British espionage, published by The History Press in paperback (296 pages, in English).
Peter Matthews reconstructs the history of London's St Ermin's Hotel, a center of British espionage since the 1930s, known to MI6 as «The Works Canteen». Ian Fleming, Winston Churchill and double agents Kim Philby and Guy Burgess moved through the hotel; Churchill is said to have conceived the Special Operations Executive there.
This edition is a reprint; the work was originally published in 2016. It falls within military and espionage history.
For readers interested in the history of espionage, World War II and the Cold War.
