Chronicles of Wasted Time
Author | : Malcolm Muggeridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1973 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:317260353 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This second volume of his autobiography opens in Geneva, where the author is working for the ILO. Then it is back to India as assistant editor of the Calcutta Stateman, and on to London with a job on Londoner's Diary in the Evening Standard. Rescued from this by the war, the author inevitably ends up in intelligance, working side by side with Kim Philby and studying invisible inks and the mysteries of cyphering and coding. Thus equipped, he is posted to Lourenco Marques to spy dutifully on his German opposite number. After Mozambique, France and liberation of Paris and with the end of the ar, a joy on the Daily Telegraph.