The Eagle in the Mirror: In Search of War Hero, Master Spy and Alleged Traitor Charles Howard Ellis @WW2TV

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The Eagle in the Mirror: In Search of War Hero, Master Spy and Alleged Traitor Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis
With Jesse Fink

The Eagle and the Mirror traces the life of spymaster Dick Ellis, an Australian-born Brit who became one of MI6’s most senior officers and helped found both the American OSS and Australian SIS. Jesse Fink will talk about how he meticulously pieced together hundreds of fragments and mentions of Ellis to construct a mosaic image of one of the 20th-century intelligence community’s most elusive and controversial figures.

Despite his towering accomplishments, Ellis stands accused of being not only a double agent for the Nazis but a triple agent for the Soviet Union. Fink spent years collecting and making sense of the entire body of evidence against Ellis – including a great deal of circumstantial evidence and unsubstantiated innuendo – and then methodically and clear-headedly analysed each piece of it in an effort to determine once and for all if Ellis was or wasn’t one of the greatest traitors of our time.

Jesse Fink was born in London in 1973. He is the author of six books including THE EAGLE IN THE MIRROR, PURE NARCO, BON: THE LAST HIGHWAY and THE YOUNGS: THE BROTHERS WHO BUILT AC/DC. Visit his official website at jessefinkbooks.com

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