William Wickham, Master Spy
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- Publisher:
- Pickering & Chatto
- Publication date:
- 05 December 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781851966967
- 9781851969838
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- Weight & Pages:
- 00kg,
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- Subjects:
- Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
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William Wickham (1761–1840) was Britain’s master spy on the Continent for more than five years during the French Revolutionary wars. He was the creator and head of a small and highly organized secret service unit, and was sent on missions to Europe and Ireland. He is the only important political figure of the period not to have been the subject of a modern biography. Durey sees in Wickham a peculiarly eighteenth-century, whiggish patriotism: he served king and country, but he also bore loyalty to a political family that was based around his Christ Church connections.
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