The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward
Sex, Scandal and Deadly Secrets in the Profumo Affair
$40.03
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2014
Summary
In 1963 John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War, was revealed as the lover of a teenage model, Christine Keeler, who was also the mistress of Yevgeny Ivanov, a naval attache at the embassy of the Soviet Union and reputedly a Russian spy.
The ensuing investigation into what became known as the Profumo Affair uncovered a secret world of orgies and S&M parties, where titled men, prominent politicians and prostitutes mixed. The revelations rocked the British establishment…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472216649 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472216644 |
| Author: | Anthony Summers, Stephen Dorril |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Book Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 26mm |
About The Author
Anthony Summers
Anthony Summers is the award-winning author of eight bestselling non-fiction books. As a BBC journalist, he covered events in the United States and wars in Vietnam and the Middle East for Panorama. His most recent book, THE ELEVENTH DAY, co-authored with Robbyn Swan, was a Finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History. It also won the Crime Writer’s Association’s Gold Dagger award for best non-fiction - which the first edition of this book also won. Summers is the only author to have won two Gold Dagger awards for non-fiction.
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