Ben Macintyre

Ben Macintyre (born 1963) is a British author, historian, and columnist writing for The Times newspaper. His columns range from current affairs to historical controversies.

Author

Macintyre is the author of a book on the gentleman criminal Adam Worth, The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief.^[1] He also wrote The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan,^[2] and a book on the real-life double agent of Germany and England during the Second World War, Eddie Chapman, titled Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy.^[3]

Two of his books have recently been made into documentaries for the BBC: Operation Mincemeat (2010) and DOUBLE AGENT: The Eddie Chapman Story (2011).

Bibliography

• Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. ISBN 978-0374157593.^[4]
• The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. ISBN 978-0374218997.^[1]
• A Foreign Field. HarperCollins, 2001. ISBN 978-0002571227.^[5] this book was published in USA as: * The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War One. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. ISBN 978-0374129859.^[6]
• The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. ISBN 978-0374201784.^[2]
• Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-0747587941.^[3]
• The Last Word: Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1408803332.^[7]
• Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. ISBN 978-0747598688.^[8]

References

External links

• "Ben Macintyre, columnist", is Macintyre's op-ed page at The Times.