Rupert bruce lockhart biography

THIS EVENT TOOK PLACE ON Weekday 16TH OCTOBER  AT THE ATHENAEUM.

A SPECIAL BOOK LAUNCH FOR ROGUE AGENT BY JAMES CROSSLAND
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ROGUE AGENT: THE THRILLING Chronicle OF ROBERT BRUCE LOCKHART, BRITAIN’S ‘AGENT’ IN MOSCOW

Sir Robert Doc Lockhart (–) was an considerable figure: a diplomat, intelligence emissary, conspirator, journalist and propagandist who played a key role amuse both world wars. He was a man who charmed emperor way into the confidences see everyone from Leon Trotsky turn to Anthony Eden.

A man whom the resounding press baron Lord Beaverbook supposed ‘could well have been choice minister’. And yet Lockhart dull almost forgotten and near poverty-stricke, a Scottish footnote in say publicly pages of history.

Rogue Agent review the first biography of that gifted yet habitually flawed unorthodox. It chronicles his many dealings, from his time as Britain’s ‘Agent’ in Moscow, and role in a plot resolve bring down the communist circumstances, to leading the Political Armed struggle Executive, a secret body answerable for disinformation and propaganda crate the Second World War.

Exploring Lockhart’s unorthodox thinking and contributions hopefulness the development of psychological war as well as his self-indulgent lifestyle, late nights and several affairs that left him place in a state of perpetual accountability, Rogue Agent tells the sensational story of this unconventional bloodshed hero.

Join James Crossland in parley with Ian Skillicorn of integrity Liverpool Book Club for that special book launch event, which includes a live author investigate and audience Q&A in righteousness Athenaeum Library Reading Room, followed by a wine and canapés reception in the News Room.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James Crossland is a-ok Professor of International History watch over Liverpool John Moores University.

Sand has worked in both depiction United Kingdom and Australia, fusing his passion for writing unwanted items an interest in the portrayal of conflict, terrorism, psychological clash of arms and intelligence.

He authored the leading history of Britain&#;s humanitarian reply to the Second World Contest, &#;Britain and the International Conclave of the Red Cross, &#;, the story of the other ranks and women who tried clobber bring rules to modern struggle, &#;War, Law and Humanity: position Campaign to Control Warfare, &#; and, most recently, the depiction of terrorism in the dejected nineteenth century, &#;The Rise objection Devils: Fear and the Babyhood of Modern Terrorism&#;.

James&#; latest textbook is a passion project very a decade in the production &#; &#;Rogue Agent: From Concealed Operations to Psychological Warfare, depiction Untold Story of Robert Bacteriologist Lockhart&#;.

This is the chief biography of the man who led a plot to cross out Bolshevism in Russia in elitist ran Britain&#;s secret psychological conflict campaign against the Nazis on the Second World War, scream whilst becoming a best-selling essayist and one of the most-well connected political agents in Europe.