Writer Helen Fry sheds light on the little-known story of how top-ranking German generals were tricked into revealing some of Hitler’s most important secrets. A few days before the start of World War II, MI6 bugged German prisoners’ cells and tasked a workforce – many of whom were German Jewish refugees – to record and transcribe these private conversations. In her book, The Walls Have Ears, Fry uncovers the inner workings of the bugging scheme used at three secret sites: Trent Park in north London, and Buckinghamshire’s Latimer House and Wilton Park. Fry will also touch on research for her newest book, Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6, published by Yale University Press in October.

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