Joan Bright Astley (1910–2008)
Autore di The Inner Circle: A View of War at the Top
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Public Domain
Opere di Joan Bright Astley
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Astley, Penelope Joan McKerrow Bright
- Altri nomi
- Bright, Penelope Joan McKerrow (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1910-09-27
- Data di morte
- 2008-12-24
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Corrientes, Argentina
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- secretary (British War Cabinet, WWII)
memoirist - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of the British Empire (Officer, 1946)
- Breve biografia
- Born in Corrientes, Argentina. Her father was an English accountant; her mother a Scottish governess. Learned typing and shorthand and worked as a cipher clerk at the British legation in Mexico. In the 1930's she was offered a job, which she declined, in Nazi Germany teaching English to the family of Rudolf Hess. Hired by the Department of Military Intelligence. Organized the Special Information Centre (SIC) for Winston Churchill during World War II. Dated Ian Fleming and is said to have been one of the people whose attributes he used for the character of Miss Moneypenny.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 16
- Popolarità
- #679,947
- Voto
- 4.0
- ISBN
- 3