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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayalby John le Carré
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Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story.
Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War—while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby's best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world.
But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscow—and not just Elliott's words, for in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton's and Elliott's unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives to their doom. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies to protect his cover, his two friends never abandoned him—until it was too late. The stunning truth of his betrayal would have devastating consequences on the two men who thought they knew him best, and on the intelligence services he left crippled in his wake.
Told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files, A Spy Among Friends is Ben Macintyre's best book yet, a high-water mark in Cold War history telling.
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Editorial Reviews
In this engaging real-life spy story, Macintyre (Double Cross) pulls back the curtain on the life and exploits of Kim Philby, who served for decades in Britain's intelligence community while secretly working as a Soviet double agent. Macintyre covers the full range of Philby's career, from his work during WWII and the early years of the Cold War to his downfall and defection to the Soviet Union. Moreover, Macintyre widens his scope to look at Philby's closest allies and friends, including fellow MI6 officer Nicholas Elliot and CIA operative James Jesus Angleton—the men who stood by him when all others were convinced of his as-yet-unproven guilt. Working with colorful characters and an anything-can-happen attitude, Macintyre builds up a picture of an intelligence community chock-full of intrigue and betrayal, in which Philby was the undisputed king of lies. There's a measure of admiration in the text for Philby's run of luck and audacious accomplishments, as when he was actually placed in charge of anti-Soviet intelligence: "The fox was not merely guarding the henhouse but building it, running it, assessing its strengths and frailties, and planning its future construction." Entertaining and lively, Macintyre's account makes the best fictional thrillers seem tame. Agent: Ed Victor, Ed Victor Ltd. (Aug.)
Likely the most infamous spy of all time, Kim Philby was a high-ranking British Intelligence agent later revealed to have been spying for the Soviets. Relying on newly declassified files, Macintyre's account of the tortured relationship between Philby and his longtime best friend, Nicholas Elliot, has the psychological depth and suspense of great fiction and is indispensable context for any fan of espionage fiction. (LJ Prepub Alert 2/1/14)
A tale of espionage, alcoholism, bad manners and the chivalrous code of spies—the real world of James Bond, that is, as played out by clerks and not superheroes.Now pretty well forgotten, Kim Philby (1912-1988) was once a byname for the sort of man who would betray his country for a song. The British intelligence agent was not alone, of course; as practiced true-espionage writer Macintyre (Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, 2012, etc.) notes, more than 200 American intelligence agents became Soviet agents during World War II—"Moscow had spies in the treasury, the State Department, the nuclear Manhattan Project, and the OSS"—and the Brits did their best to keep up on their end. Philby may have been an unlikely prospect, given his upper-crust leanings, but a couple of then-fatal flaws involving his sexual orientation and still-fatal addiction to alcohol, to say nothing of his political convictions, put him in Stalin's camp. Macintyre begins near the end, with a boozy Philby being confronted by a friend in intelligence, fellow MI6 officer Nicholas Elliott, whom he had betrayed; but rather than take Philby to prison or put a bullet in him, by the old-fashioned code, he was essentially allowed to flee to Moscow. Writing in his afterword, John Le Carré recalls asking Elliott, with whom he worked in MI6, about Philby's deceptions—"it quickly became clear that he wanted to draw me in, to make me marvel…to make me share his awe and frustration at the enormity of what had been done to him." For all Philby's charm ("that intoxicating, beguiling, and occasionally lethal English quality"), modern readers will still find it difficult to imagine a world of gentlemanly spy-versus-spy games all these hysterical years later.Gripping and as well-crafted as an episode of Smiley's People, full of cynical inevitability, secrets, lashings of whiskey and corpses.
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An Amazon Best Book of the Year
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Entertainment Weekly's Best Spy Book of 2014
"Macintyre has produced more than just a spy story. He has written a narrative about that most complex of topics, friendship...When devouring this thriller, I had to keep reminding myself it was not a novel. It reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or John Le Carré, leavened with a dollop of P.G. Wodehouse...[Macintyre] takes a fresh look at the grandest espionage drama of our era."—Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review
"Superb… Riveting reading." –Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker
"Macintyre does here what he does best — tell a heck of a good story. A Spy Among Friends is hands down the most entertaining book I've reviewed this year." —Boston Globe
"Macintyre is a superb writer, with an eye for the telling detail as fine as any novelist's…A Spy Among Friends is as suspenseful as any novel, too, as the clues tighten around Philby's guilt."—Dallas Morning News
"By now, the story of British double agent Harold 'Kim' Philby may be the most familiar spy yarn ever, fodder for whole libraries of histories, personal memoirs and novels. But Ben Macintyre manages to retell it in a way that makes Philby's destructive genius fresh and horridly fascinating."—David Ignatius, Washington Post
"A Spy Among Friends is a rollicking book. Mr. Macintyre is full of pep and never falters in the headlong rush of his narrative."—Wall Street Journal
"Vivid and fascinating...[Macintyre] succeeds admirably."—Newsday
"A crisply written tale of a classic intelligence case that remains relevant more than 50 years later."—USA Today
"Excellent...I was thoroughly engrossed in this book, beginning to end. It has all the suspense of a good spy novel, and its characters are a complex mix of charm, eccentricity, intelligence and wit. And it offers a great--and mostly troubling—insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of those we entrust with the most important of our political and military secrets."—The Huffington Post
"Working with colorful characters and an anything-can-happen attitude, Macintyre builds up a picture of an intelligence community chock-full of intrigue and betrayal, in which Philby was the undisputed king of lies…Entertaining and lively, Macintyre's account makes the best fictional thrillers seem tame." —Publishers Weekly [starred]
"Gripping and as well-crafted as an episode of Smiley's People, full of cynical inevitability, secrets, lashings of whiskey and corpses." —Kirkus Reviews [starred]
"Ben Macintyre (Double Cross) offers a fresh look at master double agent Kim Philby…Fans of James Bond will enjoy this look into the era that inspired Ian Fleming's novels, but any suspense-loving student of human nature will be shocked and thrilled by this true narrative of deceit."—Shelf Awareness [starred]
"Ben Macintyre has a knack for finding the most fascinating storylines in history. He has done it again, with this spellbinding tale of espionage, friendship, and betrayal. Written with an historian's fidelity to fact and a novelist's eye for character, A Spy Among Friends is one terrific book." —David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of Z
"Ben Macintyre is one of the most gifted espionage writers around. In A Spy Among Friends he weaves an absorbing tale of deceit and duplicity, of treason and betrayal. With exquisite detail and masterful control, Macintyre unveils the dark and treacherous interior worlds in which spies live." —Annie Jacobsen, author of Area 51 and Operation Paperclip
"In this spellbinding account of friendship and betrayal, Ben Macintyre masterfully describes how the Cambridge-educated Kim Philby evaded justice by exploiting the incestuous snobbery of the British old-boy network, which refused to believe that one of its own could be a major Soviet spy. As riveting as Macintyre's earlier books were, this searing portrait of Britain's ruling class is even better." —Lynne Olson, bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days
"Ben Macintyre has written a truly fabulous book about the "fabulous" Kim Philby—the suave, dedicated, and most intriguing spy of the entire Cold War era. Philby and his colorful Cambridge comrades are endlessly fascinating. But Macintyre tells the devastating story in an entirely new fashion, with new sources and an astonishing intimacy."
—Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and author of The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
"I have seldom had a better read than A Spy Among Friends. It reads like a thriller, a thriller of a peculiarly intricate and at times frightening sort, but you just can't stop reading it." —Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette: The Journey
"The Philby story has been told many times, but never with such sensitivity. Almost inadvertently, Ben Macintyre, a Times columnist, provides a devastating critique of the British class system and the disasters that result when people assume they know people… A Spy Among Friends is an extraordinary book about a sordid profession in which the most important attribute is the ability to lie…. Macintyre's focus on friendship brings an intimacy to this book that is missing from the cardboard stereotypes that populate spy novels and conventional espionage histories…I'm not a lover of spy novels, yet I adored this book." –The Times of London
"Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller, concentrating on Philby's friendship with and betrayal of Elliott and of Angleton, his pathetically dedicated admirer at the top of the CIA. Macintyre's account of the verbal duel between Elliott and Philby in their final confrontation in Beirut in 1963 is worthy of John le Carré at his best."–The Guardian
"A Spy Among Friends, a classic spookfest, is also a brilliant reconciliation of history and entertainment…An unputdownable postwar thriller whose every incredible detail is fact not fiction…[a] spellbinding narrative…Part of the archetypal grip this story holds for the reader is as a case study in the existential truth that, in human relations, the Other is never really knowable. For both, the mask became indistinguishable from reality…A Spy Among Friends is not just an elegy, it is an unforgettable requiem." –The Observer
"Ben Macintyre's bottomlessly fascinating new book is an exploration of Kim Philby's friendships, particularly with Nicholas Elliott… Other books on Philby may have left one with a feeling of grudging respect, but A Spy Among Friends draws out his icy cold heart…This book consists of 300 pages; I would have been happy had it been three times as long." –The Mail on Sunday
"Such a summary does no justice to Macintyre's marvellously shrewd and detailed account of Philby's nefarious career. It is both authoritative and enthralling... The book is all the more intriguing because it carries an afterward by John le Carré." –The New Statesman
"No one writes about deceit and subterfuge so dramatically, authoritatively or perceptively [as Ben Macintyre]. To read A Spy Among Friends is a bit like climbing aboard a runaway train in terms of speed and excitement–except that Macintyre knows exactly where he is going and is in total control of his material." –The Daily Mail
"Philby's story has been told many times before–both in biography and most notably in John le Carre's fictional masterpiece Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy–but never in such exhaustive detail and with such panache as in Ben MacIntyre's brilliant, compulsive A Spy Among Friends… Reads like fiction, which is testament to the extraordinary power of the story itself but also to the skills of the storyteller…One of the best real-life spy stories one is ever likely to read." –The Express
"Ben Macintyre has written an engaging book on a tantalising and ultimately tragic subject. If it starts as a study of friendship, it ends as an indictment." –The Spectator
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A Spy Among Friends
Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By Ben Macintyre
Random House LLCCopyright © 2014 Ben Macintyre
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Apprentice Spy
One moment Nicholas Elliott was at Ascot Racecourse, watching the favorite, Quashed, come romping home at 7-2, and the next, rather to his own surprise, he was a spy. The date was June 15, 1939, three months before the outbreak of the deadliest conflict in history. He was twenty-two.
It happened over a glass of champagne. John Nicholas Rede Elliott's father, Sir Claude Aurelius Elliott, OBE, was headmaster of Eton (England's grandest public school), a noted mountaineer, and a central pillar of the British establishment. Sir Claude knew everybody who was anybody and nobody who wasn't somebody, and among the many important men he knew was Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser to His Majesty's government, who had close links to the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), better known as MI6, the agency responsible for intelligence gathering abroad. Nicholas Elliott arranged to meet "Van" at Ascot and, over drinks, mentioned that he thought he might like to join the intelligence service.
Sir Robert Vansittart smiled and replied: "I am relieved you have asked me for something so easy."
"So that was that," Elliott wrote many years later.
The old boys' recruitment network had worked perfectly.
Nicholas Elliott was not obviously cut out to be a spy. His academic record was undistinguished. He knew little about the complexities of international politics, let alone the dextrous and dangerous game being played by MI6 in the run-up to war. Indeed, he knew nothing whatsoever about espionage, but he thought spying sounded exciting and important and exclusive. Elliott was self-confident as only a well-bred, well-heeled young Etonian, newly graduated from Cambridge University, with all the right social connections, can be. He was born to rule (though he would never have expressed that belief so indelicately), and membership in the most selective club in Britain seemed like a good place to start doing so.
The Elliotts were part of the backbone of the empire; for generations, they had furnished military officers, senior clerics, lawyers, and colonial administrators who ensured that Britain continued to rule the waves--and much of the globe in between. One of Nicholas Elliott's grandfathers had been the lieutenant governor of Bengal; the other, a senior judge. Like many powerful English families, the Elliotts were also notable for their eccentricity. Nicholas's great-uncle Edgar famously took a bet with another Indian Army officer that he could smoke his height in cheroots every day for three months, then smoked himself to death in two. Great-aunt Blanche was said to have been "crossed in love" at the age of twenty-six and thereafter took to her bed, where she remained for the next fifty years. Aunt Nancy firmly believed that Catholics were not fit to own pets since they did not believe animals had souls. The family also displayed a profound but frequently fatal fascination with mountain climbing. Nicholas's uncle, the Reverend Julius Elliott, fell off the Matterhorn in 1869, shortly after meeting Gustave Flaubert, who declared him "the epitome of the English gentleman." Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.
Towering over Nicholas's childhood was his father, Claude, a man of immovable Victorian principles and ferocious prejudices. Claude loathed music, which gave him indigestion, despised all forms of heating as "effete," and believed that "when dealing with foreigners the best plan was to shout at them in English." Before becoming headmaster of Eton, Claude Elliott had taught history at Cambridge University, despite an ingrained distrust of academics and an aversion to intellectual conversation. The long university vacations gave him plenty of time for mountain climbing. He might have become the most celebrated climber of his generation, but for a kneecap broken by a fall in the Lake District, which prevented him from joining Mallory's Everest expedition. A dominating figure physically and psychologically, Claude was nicknamed "the Emperor" by the boys at Eton. Nicholas regarded his father with awed reverence; in return, Claude alternately ignored or teased his only child, believing, like many fathers of his time and class, that displaying affection would make his son "soft" and quite possibly homosexual. Nicholas grew up convinced that "Claude was highly embarrassed by my very existence." His mother avoided all intimate topics of conversation, according to her only son, including "God, Disease and Below the Waist."
The young Elliott was therefore brought up by a succession of nannies and then shunted off to Durnford School in Dorset, a place with a tradition of brutality extreme even by the standards of British prep schools: every morning the boys were made to plunge naked into an unheated pool for the pleasure of the headmaster, whose wife liked to read improving literature out loud in the evenings with her legs stretched out over two small boys while a third tickled the soles of her feet. There was no fresh fruit, no toilets with doors, no restraint on bullying, and no possibility of escape. Today such an institution would be illegal; in 1925 it was considered "character-forming." Elliott left his prep school with the conviction that "nothing as unpleasant could ever recur," an ingrained contempt for authority, and a hardy sense of humor.
Eton seemed like a paradise after the "sheer hell" of Durnford, and having his father as headmaster posed no particular problem for Nicholas, since Claude continued to pretend he wasn't there. Highly intelligent, cheerful, and lazy, the young Elliott did just enough work to get by: "The increased legibility of his handwriting only serves to reveal the inadequacy of his ability to spell," noted one report. He was elected to his first club, Pop, the Eton institution reserved for the most popular boys in the school. It was at Eton that Elliott discovered a talent for making friends. In later life he would look back on this as his most important skill, the foundation of his career.
Basil Fisher was Elliott's first and closest friend. A glamorous figure with an impeccable academic and sporting record, Fisher was captain of the First XI, the chairman of Pop, and son of a bona fide war hero, Basil senior having been killed by a Turkish sniper at Gaza in 1917. The two friends shared every meal, spent their holidays together, and occasionally slipped into the headmaster's house, when Claude was at dinner, to play billiards. Photographs from the time show them arm in arm, beaming happily. Perhaps there was a sexual element to their relationship, but probably not. Hitherto, Elliott had loved only his nanny, "Ducky Bit" (her real name is lost to history). He worshipped Basil Fisher.
In the autumn of 1935 the two friends went up to Cambridge. Naturally, Elliott went to Trinity, his father's old college. On his first day at the university, he visited the writer and poet Robert Gittings, an acquaintance of his father, to ask a question that had been troubling him: "How hard should I work, and at what?" Gittings was a shrewd judge of character. As Elliott remembered: "He strongly advised me to use my three years at Cambridge to enjoy myself in the interval before the next war"--advice that Elliott followed to the letter. He played cricket, punted, drove around Cambridge in a Hillman Minx, and attended and gave some very good parties. He read a lot of spy novels. On weekends he went shooting or to the races at Newmarket. Cambridge in the 1930s boiled with ideological conflict; Hitler had taken power in 1933; the Spanish civil war would erupt in the summer of 1936; extreme Right and extreme Left fought it out in university rooms and on the streets. But the fervid political atmosphere simply passed Elliott by. He was far too busy having fun. He seldom opened a book and emerged after three years with many friends and a third-class degree, a result he considered "a triumph over the examiners."
Nicholas Elliott left Cambridge with every social and educational advantage and absolutely no idea what he wanted to do. But beneath a complacent and conventional exterior and the "languid, upper-class manner" lay a more complex personality, an adventurer with a streak of subversion. Claude Elliott's Victorian rigidity had instilled in his son a deep aversion to rules. "I could never be a good soldier because I am insufficiently amenable to discipline," he reflected. When told to do something, he tended to "obey not the order which he had actually been given by a superior, but rather the order which that superior would have given if he had known what he was talking about." He was tough--the brutality of Durnford had seen to that--but also sensitive, bruised by a lonely childhood. Like many Englishmen, he concealed his shyness behind a defensive barrage of jokes. Another paternal legacy was the conviction that he was physically unattractive; Claude had once told him he was "plug ugly," and he grew up believing it. Certainly Elliott was not classically handsome, with his gangly frame, thin face, and thick-rimmed glasses, but he had poise, a barely concealed air of mischief, and a resolute cheerfulness that women were instantly drawn to. It took him many years to conclude that he "was no more or less odd to look at than a reasonable proportion of my fellow creatures." Alongside a natural conservatism he had inherited the family propensity for eccentricity. He was no snob. He could strike up a conversation with anyone from any walk of life. He did not believe in God or Marx or capitalism; he had faith in King, country, class, and club (White's Club, in his case, the gentleman's club in St James's). But above all he believed in friendship.
In the summer of 1938 Basil Fisher took a job in the City, while Elliott wondered idly what to do with himself. The old boys soon solved that. Elliott was playing in a cricket match at Eton that summer when, during the tea interval, he was approached by Sir Nevile Bland, a senior diplomat and family friend, who tactfully observed that Elliott's father was concerned by his son's "inability to get down to a solid job of work." (Sir Claude preferred to speak to his son through emissaries.) Sir Nevile explained that he had recently been appointed Britain's minister at The Hague, in the Netherlands. Would Nicholas like to accompany him as honorary attaché? Elliott said he would like that very much, despite having no idea what an honorary attaché might actually do. "There was no serious vetting procedure," Elliott later wrote. "Nevile simply told the Foreign Office that I was all right because he knew me and had been at Eton with my father."
Before leaving, Elliott underwent a code training course at the Foreign Office. His instructor was one Captain John King, a veteran cipher clerk who was also, as it happened, a Soviet spy. King had been passing Foreign Office telegrams to Moscow since 1934. Elliott's first tutor in secrecy was a double agent.
Elliott arrived at The Hague in his Hillman Minx in the middle of November 1938 and reported to the legation. After dinner, Sir Nevile offered him a warning--"in the diplomatic service it is a sackable offense to sleep with the wife of a colleague"--and some advice--"I suggest you should do as I do and not light your cigar until you have started your third glass of port." Elliott's duties were hardly onerous--a little light bag carrying for the minister, some coding and decoding in the wireless room, and attendance at formal dinners.
Elliott had been in the Netherlands only four months when he got his first taste of clandestine work and an "opportunity to see the German war machine at first hand." One evening, over dinner, he fell into conversation with a young naval officer named Glyn Hearson, the assistant naval attaché at the embassy in Berlin. Commander Hearson confided that he was on a special mission to spy on the port of Hamburg, where the Germans were believed to be developing midget submarines. After a few more glasses, Hearson asked Elliott if he would care to join him. Elliott thought this a splendid idea. Sir Nevile gave his approval.
Two days later, at three in the morning, Elliott and Hearson broke into Hamburg's port by climbing over the wall. "We discreetly poked our noses all over the place for about an hour" taking photographs, Elliott recalled, before "returning to safety and a stiff drink." Elliott had no diplomatic cover and no training, and Hearson had no authority to recruit him for the mission. Had they been caught, they might have been shot as spies; at the very least, the news that the son of the Eton headmaster had been caught snooping around a German naval dockyard in the middle of the night would have set off a diplomatic firestorm. It was, Elliott happily admitted, "a singularly foolhardy exploit." But it had been most enjoyable and highly successful. They drove on to Berlin in high spirits.
April 20, 1939, was Hitler's fiftieth birthday, a national holiday in Nazi Germany and the occasion for the largest military parade in the history of the Third Reich. Organized by propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, the festivities marked a high point of the Hitler cult, a lavish display of synchronized sycophancy. A torchlight parade and cavalcade of fifty white limousines, led by the Fuhrer, was followed by a fantastic five-hour exhibition of military muscle involving fifty thousand German troops, hundreds of tanks, and 162 warplanes. The ambassadors of Britain, France, and the United States did not attend, having been withdrawn after Hitler's march on Czechoslovakia, but some twenty-three other countries sent representatives to wish Hitler a happy birthday. "The Fuhrer is feted like no other mortal has ever been," gushed Goebbels in his diary.
Elliott watched the celebrations, with a mixture of awe and horror, from a sixth-floor apartment in the Charlottenburger Chaussee belonging to General Noel Mason-MacFarlane, the British military attaché in Berlin. "Mason-Mac" was a whiskery old warhorse, a decorated veteran of the trenches and Mesopotamia. He could not hide his disgust. From the balcony of the apartment there was a clear view of Hitler on his saluting podium. The general remarked under his breath to Elliott that Hitler was well within rifle range: "I am tempted to take advantage of this," he muttered, adding that he could "pick the bastard off from here as easy as winking." Elliott "strongly urged him to take a pot shot." Mason- MacFarlane thought better of the idea, though he later made a formal request to be allowed to assassinate Hitler from his balcony. Sadly for the world, the offer was turned down.
Elliott returned to The Hague with two newly minted convictions: that Hitler must be stopped at all costs and that the best way of contributing to this end would be to become a spy. "My mind was easily made up." A day at Ascot, a glass of fizz with Sir Robert Vansittart, and a meeting with an important person in Whitehall did the rest. Elliott returned to The Hague still officially an honorary attaché but in reality, with Sir Nevile Bland's blessing, a new recruit to the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6. Outwardly his diplomatic life continued as before; secretly he began his novitiate in the strange religion of British intelligence.
Sir Robert Vansittart, the Foreign Office mandarin who smoothed Elliott's way into MI6, ran what was, in effect, a private intelligence agency outside the official orbit of government but with close links to both MI6 and MI5, the Security Service. Vansittart was a fierce opponent of appeasement, convinced that Germany would start another war "just as soon as it feels strong enough." His network of spies gathered copious intelligence on Nazi intentions, with which he tried (and failed) to persuade Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of the looming confrontation. One of his earliest and most colorful informants was Jona von Ustinov, a German journalist and fierce secret opponent of Nazism. Ustinov was universally known as "Klop," Russian slang for bedbug, a nickname that derived from his rotund appearance, of which he was, oddly, intensely proud. Ustinov's father was a Russian-born army officer; his mother was half Ethiopian and half Jewish; his son, born in 1921, was Peter Ustinov, the great comic actor and writer. Klop Ustinov had served in the German army during the First World War, winning an Iron Cross, before taking up a post with the German Press Agency in London. He lost his job in 1935 when the German authorities, suspicious of his exotically mixed heritage, demanded proof of his Aryanism. That same year he was recruited as a British agent, code-named "U35." Ustinov was fat and monocled, with a deceptively bumbling demeanor. He was "the best and most ingenious operator I had the honor to work with," declared Dick White, his case officer, who would go on to head both MI5 and MI6.
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BEN MACINTYRE is a writer-at-large for The Times of London and the bestselling author of Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, The Napoleon of Crime, and Forgotten Fatherland, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.
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A Spy Among Friends is a very well written look into the life of the man credited as the greatest spy in history: Kim Philby. Author Ben Macintyre has really done his research. The result is a true page turner that you just can't put down. A truly fascinating book.
Bought this after reading John le Carre's fictional "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", which aroused my interest in knowing the truth about spycraft during the cold war. Milne's non-fiction book about the two-sided Kim Philby was almost as much about his one-sided friend Nicholas Elliot, but that just adds credence to the account. It gives very interesting insight into the British class structure still prominent during WWII, how the "good old boy" network functioned and how it protected Philby from discovery for so many years. It's astonishing to read how duplicitous Philby was. It's also enlightening to see how loosely the spy world really functioned--much different from what I would have imagined--makes you wonder if it is still much this way. If you can, read this in one sitting to keep with the flow.
This is the amazing story of a man who went to the right schools and had extremely good connections. Because of those factors his path to the higher and trusted levels of British Intelligence was made easier. Kim Philby was responsible for countless deaths during his career. It is amazing to think of the people who absolute trust in this traitor.
This is a well-researched book on a fascinating subject. It sets forth the character - Philby - clearly, and in the context of his peers and friends. As a history of both Philly and his contemporary MI-6 and the CIA, it is extremely good and quite readable. McIntyre's literary style is lucid and very effective. The one shortcoming is in certain details - notably dates. Many of the dates in the book need revision for the second edition. The erroneous one conflict with other sources, as well as the flow of the book itself. One example is the marriage of Nicholas Elliott. The text dates his marriage as 10 April 1945, whereas the subtext of a photograph gives a weding date of 10 April 1943 (the correct date). There are several of these errors, which are more editorial than substantive, but mars the overall narrative.
This was a very readable, fascinating true story that kept my interest right to the end.
The best book on this man and his fellow spies.
Probably the complete take on Philby an his crowd.
A smooth tour of the spying groups in the 1930's to post WWII. Nice character development. Not a hairaiser but surprising history.
well written--apparently well documented. an excellent read for those who want to look at the cold war.
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Would not recommend,this is one book I wish I could get my money back on,very tuff to follow.
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Never have I read s spy book that was so mundane in it's entirty. lI suippose the telling of this tale in the first person only add's to the lack of adventure. Would not recomend this to anyone who is looking for a fast moving, interging tale of esponage.


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1. Chop grape tomatoes, green onion, and cucumber.
2. Grate zucchini( with peel), discard the inner seed part.
3. Extract juice of lime.
4. Dice the fish into equal sized cubes.
5. In a mixing bowl, place green onion, grape tomato, cucumber, zucchini,half of the lime juice,1/2 teaspoon adobo seasoning, cumin and toss.
6. In a roaster oven,roast corns.
7. In a mixing bowl, pour sour cream, mayonnaise, chili powder, adobo seasoning, cilantro, remaining lime juice and mix.
8. In another mixing bowl, take flour, add cumin, abodo seasoning, chili powder and salt.
9. Toss the fish dices in the flour mixture.
10. In a skillet, heat vegetable oil, and fry the flour coated fish, till light brown.
11. Apply the cream mixture on the cooked corns.
12. In a serving plate, place corn, sprinkle some shredded cheese, place tortilla, put fried fish and salad on top. Serve hot.
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Calories 912 Calories from Fat 107
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Total Fat 12 g18.9%
Saturated Fat 2 g10.1%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 43.3 mg14.4%
Sodium 334.4 mg13.9%
Total Carbohydrates 160 g53.3%
Dietary Fiber 21.3 g85.1%
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The house was designed by a Swiss architect and completed in 2009. It has an elegant interior with natural materials such as wood, slate floors and glass. There is a pleasant indoor temperature in summer and winter. The house is heated with natural hot water. The large windows allow an unrestricted view to the fjord and the weather changes. In winter, Northern Lights can be observed without leaving the house.
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The large living room has a bunk bed and a sofa as well as a table with chairs. For your comfort, internet access is available with a screen, keyboard and mouse. Loudspeakers and HiFi equipment complete the list.
Amazing stay! The fjord is beautiful, especially in the evening. Owners/staff were helpful and pleasant, especially seeing that I had made a mistake in my booking which, if they hadn't of been so helpful, would have seen me without accommodation on my last day! The cabin/house is very clean and a good size for two people, with plenty of crockery and cooking utensils. The hot tub is amazing, and HUGE - although this does mean it takes a little while to fill, so plan ahead. We were treated to the northern lights over the fjord twice in 5 days, even though the KP index was low and some days were cloudy. Lovey lovey spot.
Modern build house but landscaped into natural surroundings. Beautiful views from the bedroom and sitting room. Clean and well maintained. Kitchen fully equipped. The property is easy to find, use the instructions in the pdf that the host sends you but the house is also on google maps.
The house was left open for us when we arrived and the cleaner was available to meet us however, we bumped into Thomas when we arrived and he showed us around. The hot tub on the front porch has a beautiful view and we were able to sit in it watching the Northern Lights.
There are lots of activities around the local area as well as relaxing at the house. Akureyri is about a 20min drive away which is a pretty town with supermarkets, restaurants. We had a great day out driving over to Myvatn - go and see the bubbling mud and steam vents as well as going to the thermal pools at Myvatn. I would stay here again as there are still lots more places to explore! I would also recommend this property to friends and family.
House Sulur was absolutely fantastic for my husband and I. We thoroughly enjoyed the "hot pot", especially on a freezing night. Everything was just as described and we couldn't ask for a lovelier stay and time in Northern Iceland. We highly recommend it.
We had a great stay, the house is gorgeous and the view is amazing. Everything was as described, both Thomas (the owner) and Anna-Baura (the caretaker) were helpful and polite. Could not have asked for a better home base for our Iceland adventure!
Very clean & comfortable. Everything included for a one week stay. Good service on arrival. Beautiful views to wake up to every morning.
My wife and I stayed at the Sulur house from April 3-5, 2016.
-Close to Akureyri (20-30 minute drive): a great location for exploring the area.
-Incredible view of the Fjord. Wall-to-wall windows mean watching the sunset as you relax on the couch. I can't imagine a better view of the fjord, and this includes the northern lights, which we could see from inside the house.
-Radiant heating from the floor is wonderful during colder temperatures.
-Typical provisions are all present, with sleeping space for 3-4 quite easily.
-There is good paved parking available near the entrance to the house
-We had some difficulties arise with our stay, but the owners handled the difficulties very well, and I am confident both 1) that this circumstance was an exception, and 2) that they would handle any future exceptions equally well.
-Beds are *VERY* comfortable.
-Shelves and cabinets in and near the kitchen area.
-Computer provided with internet connection.
-A great guidebook in the house that has suggestions for activities and restaurants in the area.
The bad:
-Nothing I'd classify as "bad".
The in-between:
-Hot tub has some key nuances (some are noted in the guidebook).
Cover doors are very heavy. *You need more than one person to handle this.*
It is not a "whirlpool" hot tub. No jets, nor a temperature control to keep the water warm for later.
While it's filling, you do not have hot water in the rest of the house.
Currently there is only one wooden bench in the tub, and this does not have multiple levels to it. The owners intend to add more seating in the future.
*Overall, the tub can work just fine to relax and rest muscles. You just have to plan ahead a little bit.
- The shower has no storage for hygiene items, but I this might be changed soon.
- Privacy: this house is on a farm complex with a few other houses. The one next has a view of the side windows of this house, as well as the hot tub area. Curtains are available to block the windows, so this wasn't a big deal to us.
Very nice house; well built with quality materials. It fits right in to the beautiful outdoors, with plenty of natural light and a relaxing atmosphere. A few factors made it not quite "perfect" for me, but I still gladly give this house a 4-star rating. And if you don't mind the hot tub nuances I mentioned, then it's definitely a 5-star rating. The owners provide a great place for their guests, and they appear to be continually improving the property as a whole.
Situated at the wonderful Eyafjord, perfect 180° view to the west.
30 kilometers to Akureyri (airport, shopping mall, hot springs, hospital, museum, concerts) and 8 kilometers to Grenivik (shop, gas station, museum, golf course, horse farm)
Horseback riding: Near the house is the horse farm 'Polarhestar' with more than 100 horses. You can rent them for a few hours or take part in a longer ride in the nearby valleys.
Golf: There is a small 9-holes golf course in Grenivik 8 kilometers to the north.
Skiing: In winter, rides to the nearby Kaldbakkur with a big snowmobile are available. In Akureyri there is a classical skiing area with lifts and illuminated slopes.
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2 night minimum stay
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% Daily Value*
Total Fat 8 g12.1%
Saturated Fat 4.8 g24%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 29.5 mg9.8%
Sodium 1093 mg45.5%
Total Carbohydrates 15 g4.9%
Dietary Fiber 1.2 g4.9%
Sugars 11.2 g
Protein 9 g17.8%
Vitamin A 55.1% Vitamin C 80.1%
Calcium 33.3% Iron 15.6%
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The findings include the Hammond university's habit of admitting students into the program without the proper paperwork and letting student workers get away with claiming hours worked at times when they were supposed to be in class.
13-year-old faces attempted murder charge
SLIDELL (AP) — A 13-year-old is facing an attempted murder charge after he reportedly stabbed his mother's fiancé with a knife over the weekend.
The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office said Tuesday the man was trying to discipline the 13-year-old Sunday when an argument ensued. The boy then grabbed a large kitchen knife and stabbed the man in the neck.
Officer accused
of sex crimes gets bond reduced
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge has reduced the bond of a suspended New Orleans police officer indicted on several sex charges. After reviewing evidence on Tuesday, the judge agreed to cut 42-year-old Desmond Pratt's bond from $500,000 to $400,000.
But citing "significant" evidence against Pratt on certain charges, the judge refused to budge any further, and the officer remained jailed.
Pratt, a former homicide detective, has been suspended without pay since April 17, when internal investigators arrested him on counts of forcible rape.
A state grand jury indicted Pratt in August, charging him charging him with counts of aggravated incest, sexual battery and carnal knowledge of a juvenile.
Pratt's attorney, Robert Jenkins, said previously that Pratt denies all allegations made against him.
Former Rapides nurse pleads guilty to battery
ALEXANDRIA (AP) — A 49-year-old male nurse whose conviction for sexual battery on a male patient at a hospital was overturned last month has pleaded guilty to a felony charge that will not require him to register as a sex offender.
Phillip Wayne Raines pleaded guilty to aggravated second degree battery — a violent crime and a felony.
State District Judge Thomas M. Yeager sentenced Raines to 10 years in prison at hard labor, followed by two years of supervised probation. The judge suspended eight years, 11 months of the prison sentence.
A patient at Rapides Regional Medical Center accused Raines in 2009 of sexual assault while the patient was under anesthesia and in Raines' care after having an appendectomy.
Lafayette charter schools ready
for 2014 opening
LAFAYETTE (AP) — Two groups approved to start three charter schools in Lafayette Parish say they are on track to open schools as planned in August and one is already starting to look for key staff to run its schools.
In October, the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education approved a total of five new charter schools by two charter groups to open in the parish between 2014 and 2017.
The first three are scheduled to open in time for the next school year.
"We're in negotiations for two properties," Jay Miller, a board member of Louisiana Achievement Charter Academies said. The group is opening two K-8 schools in the parish — one in August and the other by 2015 — in partnership with the charter management company National Heritage Academies.
Contracts should be in hand in early December for the two schools set for an August opening by the Lafayette Charter Foundation, said Mary Louella Cook, foundation president.
The group joined with charter management company Charter Schools USA to open three schools in the parish: two K-8 schools in August and a high school by 2017.
One of the K-8 schools will be built in Sugar Mill Pond in Youngsville; the second is planned for Couret Place, a new development in north Lafayette.
Cook said the foundation is accepting applications for principals with a goal of hiring its two school leaders by February or March.
Miller said his board will begin its staff search after its construction contracts for schools are squared away.
Both groups' boards will meet in December, though details are still being worked out for such things as meeting locations and sites for temporary offices.
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Ozzy Osbourne (born John Michael Osbourne, 3.12.1948)
Ozzy Osbourne is an English heavy metal star and the front man of Black Sabbath. He is often dubbed the Prince of Darkness.
Childhood: Ozzy Osbourne was born in Aston, Birmingham, England. His parents were Jack, a toolmaker at GEC, Lillian, a worker at the car firm Lucas. He also had five siblings who he lived with in a small 2 bedroomed house. As a child he suffered from dyslexia and various other learning disabilities but took part in school plays despite his academic underachievement. He left school at 15 and had various labour jobs including plumbing and working in a slaughterhouse. He was imprisoned for six weeks as a teenager after failing to pay a fine for shoplifting.
Musical career: Ozzy Osbourne began his music career in 1967 with Geezer Butler in a duo called Rare Breed but they broke up after two shows. They reunited in Polka Tulk Blues with guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward but later renamed themselves Earth. However, after a mix up with another band of the same name, they changed it to Black Sabbath in 1969, after the 1963 Italian horror film. The band incorporated horror, gloominess and the occult in their shows and songs. The 'Black Sabbath' song was inspired by a ghostly apparition that was witnessed by Butler after reading an occult book given to him by Ozzy. Their debut and second albums 'Black Sabbath' and 'Paranoid' were certified platinum and they garnered much airplay in the beginning of the career but were initially not so popular with music critics. In 1978, he left the band in favour of a solo porject called 'Blizzard of Ozz'. He soon re-joined, however, at the rest of the band's request but was to leave yet again in 1979 when he was fired for his excessive drug abuse. He was replaced by Ronnie James Dio. In 1980, he reunited The Blizzard of Ozz under the management of Sharon Arden with drummer Lee Kerslake, bassist Bob Daisley, keyboardist Don Airey and guitarist Randy Rhoads. The self-titled debut was credited just under Ozzy's name and reached number 7 on the UK chart. It also contained his well-known singles 'Crazy Train' and 'Mr Crowley'. He has noted that his second album, 'Diary of a Madman', was his favourite of his albums despite not being one of the best selling. In 1982, guitarist Rhoads was killed in a plane crash piloted by their tour bus driver Andrew Aycock who also died along with the band's hairdresser who was also on board. Ozzy witnessed the incident and subsequently suffered from depression. Bernie Torme replaced Rhoads briefly before Brad Gillis took over. They later released a live tribute album for Rhoads. In 1983, Jake E. Lee joined the band to record third album 'Bark at the Moon', the title track of which became a fan favourite. Lee left in 1987. In 1987, he remembered the fifth anniversary of Rhoads' death with an album of live recordings, 'Tribute', from previous years. In 1988, he appeared in 'The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years' documentary. Zakk Wylde became a new Rhoads replacement who helped record 'No Rest for the Wicked'. The resulting tour saw Ozzy reunite with Geezer Butler on bass and they later released live EP 'Just Say Ozzy'. Butler toured with Ozzy for the next four tours. In 1994, Ozzy was presented with a Grammy for his track 'I Don't Want to Change the World' from live album 'Live & Loud'. Following the release of that album, he announced he would embark on his last tour 'No More Tours' though he returned to touring and recording in 1995 with his album 'Ozzmosis' and tour 'The Retirement Sucks Tour'. Wylde was replaced in 1996 after failing to make a decision on his own musical future. His biggest success of the nineties was Ozzfest first held in Phoenix, Arizona then in Devore, California in 1996. 5 million people have attended the festival since its inception and Ozzy became the first metal star to earn $50 million in merchandise sales. He reunited with the original line-up of Black Sabbath in 1997 and still makes occasional appearances with them. In 2005, he and Sharon were part of the MTV competition show 'Battle for Ozzfest' - a battle of the bands style contest. In 2001, Ozzy released 'Down to Earth' which featured the globally charting track 'Dreamer'. In 2002, he performed 'Paranoid' at the Party at the Palace concert at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee. He had his first ever UK number one single in the shape of 'Changes' - a duet he did with his daughter Kelly. In 2005, he released a box set called Prince of Darkness which included live performances, B-sides, demos, singles, duets and some new material. In 2009, Ozzy featured on Slash's single 'Crucify The Dead'. In 2010, as part of the release of his album 'Scream', he held an album signing in Birmingham whereby the first 400 fans recieved wristbands for free access to an intimate show later at the Birmingham Town Hall. In 2011, the original Black Sabbath line up announced that they would reunite for a world tour and an album entitled '13' though Bill Ward dropped out. Ozzy Osbourne: Other career ventures Ozzy Osbourne had his own reality TV show entitled 'The Osbournes' featuring Sharon, Jack and Kelly and it was a major MTV hit. They then hosted the 30th Annual American Music Awards in 2003 which was filled with bleeps from their repeated swearing. In 2008, they hosted the 2008 BRIT Awards. Ozzy has made an appearance in a World of Warcraft commercial. In 2009, he published autobiography 'I Am Ozzy'.
Personal Life: Ozzy Osbourne married his first wife Thelma Riley in 1972 and had two children named Louis and Jessica. He also adopted her son Elliot Kingsley. They later divorced due to his drug abuse and constant touring. He married his manager Sharon Arden and had three children; Aimee, Kelly and Jack; as well as unofficially adopting their friend Robert Marcato. He has six grandchildren. He has properties in both Los Angeles and Buckinghamshire. He has more than 15 tattoos including OZZY across his knuckles which he did himself. He has struggled with drugs and alcohol addictions for most of his life though he is now both clean and sober. His relationship with Sharon was tumultuous with the pair often physically fighting. In 1989, he even dried to strangle her to death after excessive drug taking. In 1982 he was arrested urinating on a memorial while wearing his wife's dress and he was banned from San Antonio for 10 years. In 1984 he was arrested in Memphis for being drunk and disorderly. He has suffered with tremors for several years which he found out in 2005 was related to Parkin Syndrome. In 2003, he had an accident with an all-terrain vehicle where he broke his collarbone, ribs and vertebra. He did, however, subsequently recover.
The heavy metal pioneers play Birmingham's Genting Arena on Saturday night.
The Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne has said emotions will be running high when Black Sabbath play their farewell gig at Birmingham's Genting Arena on Saturday night.
Black Sabbath, who were formed in 1968, have come home to Birmingham to put an end to their lengthly career, as Ozzy says after nearly five decades the band has "run its course."
Black Sabbath are preparing for their last ever show
Continue reading: Ozzy Osbourne Predicts Tears As He Prepares For Black Sabbath's Farewell Gig
He confesses he was just feeling lonely.
It's been nearly six months since Ozzy Osbourne came out as a sex addict following his affair with an LA hair stylist behind wife Sharon Osbourne's back, but now he admits that it was all just an excuse because he'd been caught cheating. He has now revealed the real reason he strayed.
Ozzy Osbourne admits he's not really a sex addict
The Black Sabbath rocker, who is currently performing his last ever tour with the band, decided to be open and honest about his affair last year and confessed that it wasn't down to an addiction to sex at all despite what his representative said in his official statement at the time.
Continue reading: 'I'm NOT A Sex Addict': Ozzy Osbourne Comes Clean About Last Year's Difficulties
The revelation comes in Osbourne's upcoming book, 'There Is No F**king Secret'.
Kelly Osbourne has revealed that her father Ozzy took an overdose of pills after learning that his wife Sharon had suffered a seizure during her cancer treatments.
In her upcoming book There Is No F**cking Secret: Letters From A Badass Bitch, Kelly writes that Ozzy ended up being rushed to hospital in the same ambulance as his wife, after downing a handful of pills and washing them down with vodka.
Kelly Osbourne's new book details her father's overdose
Continue reading: Kelly Osbourne Reveals Ozzy Overdosed On Pills While Sharon Was Battling Cancer
Osbourne had tweeted Pugh's phone number earlier this year when news of her affair with Ozzy broke.
The lawsuit filled by Ozzy Osbourne's ex-mistress Michelle Pugh against his daughter Kelly Osbourne has been privately resolved, according to People magazine.
The initial lawsuit was filled by Pugh in August and accused Osbourne of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and public disclosure of private facts, after she tweeted the hairstylist's phone number and accused her of 'elder abuse'.
Kelly Osbourne and Michelle Pugh have 'privately resolved' their lawsuit.
Continue reading: Kelly Osbourne Settles Lawsuit With Ozzy's Ex-Mistress Michelle Pugh
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are now working on their marriage, following a brief split earlier this year.
Jack Osbourne has opened up about his parents Ozzy and Sharon's relationship, saying they don't have a "picture-perfect marriage." Speaking on Wednesday's edition of Sway in the Morning, Jack said his parents were trying to "figure it out", following the revelation of Ozzy's affair earlier this year and their temporary separation.
Jack Osbourne has spoken out about his parent's marriage
"They're working on it," Jack said. "You know, they're trying to rein it in. They've been together for so long and this isn't their first rodeo. They don't have this picture-perfect marriage, and they've never claimed to, so they're just trying to figure it out, I guess."
Continue reading: Jack Osbourne: "My Parents Don't Have The Picture Perfect Marriage"
45 year old stylist Michelle Pugh revealed details of their four-year affair with the Black Sabbath star to People magazine on Wednesday.
Following reports earlier this year of an affair with his former hairstylist, metal singer and reality TV star Ozzy Osbourne is said to be in "intense therapy" for sex addiction.
The singer's 33-year marriage to wife Sharon was widely reported to have been ended for good back in May, when reports that Ozzy has engaged in a four-year-long love affair with his former stylist, Michelle Pugh, hit headlines.
Ozzy Osbourne in 2016
Continue reading: Ozzy Osbourne Having "Intense Therapy" For Sex Addiction, As Former Mistress Reveals Details Of Their Affair
The couple of 36 years are reconciling after a nightmare few months.
Fans of the Osbourne family will be pleased to know that Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne have reconciled after a very public separation, where reports alleged that the shock rocker had been having an affair with an LA hair stylist. Now he insists the relationship is 'back on track', and Sharon herself has confessed the same sentiment.
Sharon Osbourne and Ozzy Osbourne are back on track
During a promo interview with his son Jack Osbourne for their upcoming History show 'Ozzy and Jack's World Detour', Good Morning America's Jesse Palmer addressed the sensitive issue of Ozzy's rocky marriage. 'It's just a bump in the road, that's all. We all get them', said Ozzy. 'It's back on track again.'
Continue reading: Ozzy Osbourne And Sharon Osbourne Confirm They're Back Together After 'Bump In The Road'
This year's Download Festival turned out to be a very wet weekend with constant downpours and thunderstorms throughout the three days, but what would 'Drownload' festival be without a little bit of rain? Thick with mud and soggy from the rain, the crowds all gathered looking for a fantastic time and with phenomenal headliners Rammstein, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden the weekend was never going to disappoint. Aside from the wrestling and the creative Zippo lighters that you could engrave in the Zippo Encore booth, as well as get hold of the limited edition Download Zippo lighter, the music line up for this year's festival was phenomenal - and we can't wait for the next Download festival already.
There were multiple highlights throughout the weekend, and as we stocked up on burgers, we headed down to the Lemmy stage to catch one of the more out-there acts of the weekend - Babymetal. Babymetal were mesmerising as they always are, with hit songs Gimme Chocolate and Road To Resistance taking the crowd by storm. A giant circle pit opened as the Japanese J-pop/metal band took to the stage and gave a fantastically choreographed performance as always.
Killswitch Engage managed to slay the stage as they always do, even in the torrential downpour that overtook their set, as the band plunged into hit songs My Curse, Strength Of The Mind and My Last Serenade, there was nothing that they can do to disappoint. A huge crowd turned out to watch the band, even in the mudpit that the Lemmy stage gave way to.
Continue reading: Download Festival - 2016 Review
Ozzfest Meets Knotfest... meets Cringefest!
It was such a cringeworthy moment that it was almost painful for everyone involved, but Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne were forced to put their game faces on and pretend all was well as they re-united briefly in a Hollywood press conference to announce Ozzfest Meets Knotfest yesterday (May 12th 2016).
Things still looked tense between Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne
Unfortunately, Sharon is still acting as husband Ozzy's manager despite their very recent break-up, so she deserves a huge amount of respect for bravely attending the latest press announcement despite knowing that questions would be raised about their future together as a couple. Needless to say, it was as awkward as you could have imagined it would be.
Continue reading: Ozzy Osbourne Reunites With Sharon For Painfully Awkward Press Conference
Black Sabbath singer returns to San Antonio.
Ozzy Osbourne has changed since his early Black Sabbath days. He's all but done away with the alcohol and drugs of his band career and is very much a family man - and certainly refrains from urinating on historic effigies. Thus, the shock rocker has returned to San Antonio to (according to reports) publicly apologise for relieving himself at the Alamo 30 years ago.
Ozzy Osbourne goes back to the Alamo
As he's previously stated, when one is heavily drunk, one does stupid things and the Prince of Darkness is no exception. In 1982, during what was one of the most substance-fuelled, messy rock tours in history, Osbourne - dressed in his wife Sharon Osbourne's dress because she had hidden his clothes - promptly emptied his bladder on the 60 foot cenotaph across the road from the Alamo; a memorial commemorating those who died during the Battle of the Alamo in Texas in the 1800s. He was subsequently arrested for public intoxication and given a lifelong ban from the city of San Antonio ahead of a planned show at the Hemisphere Arena.
Continue reading: Ozzy Re-Bourne: Is Prince Of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne Making Amends For The Alamo Incident?
Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzy Osbourne out and about running errands in Beverly Hills - Los Angeles, California, United States - Tuesday 7th July 2015
Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzy Osbourne leaving his hotel in Manhattan - Manhattan, New York, United States - Friday 12th December 2014
Billy Morrison, Ozzy Osbourne, Tommy Clufetos and Slash - 2014 MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Concert - Arrivals - Los Angeles, California, United States - Monday 12th May 2014
Kelly Osbourne and Ozzy Osbourne - 22nd Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing/After Party - Inside - Los Angeles, California, United States - Sunday 2nd March 2014
Ozzy Osbourne - The L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center's 'An Evening With Women' event held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel - Show - Beverly Hills, California, United States - Saturday 18th May 2013
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A look back at #Ozzfest 2016 which was @BlackSabbath's final show along the west coast of North America https://t.co/asTysvXzIE
RT @TheOzzfest: A Look Back at #Ozzfest 2016 https://t.co/o4ZJ3Gyk9K
I must've quit smoking 80,000 times now. That's the most addictive sh*t that I've ever put in my body. https://t.co/cwi3cKH9CY
RT @OzWorldDetour: Did you miss any episodes of #OzzyAndJack's World Detour? Catch up on all full episodes for FREE at @HISTORY.com! https…
RT @MetalHammer: Metal Hammer is back! And we've got M Shadows interviewing @OzzyOsbourne! https://t.co/fiYhVj5l83 https://t.co/2AJwlTxP4U
RT @kgon: .@OzzyOsbourne is headlining a festival based around the solar eclipse happening in August. https://t.co/KdOBbYHDz5
London 1974 https://t.co/AL6luOq1lu
with Jake E. Lee https://t.co/F9pZXTnHvJ
RT @OzzyOsbourne: Where will you be on August 21st? https://t.co/3lI792GbB3 https://t.co/GA1o7br4Ih
RT @TheOzzfest: The @OzzyOsbourne #Ouija only available as part of Scream tour VIP packages $49.99 @eBay store 10% 2 @StJudeResearch https:…
RT @965WCMF: . @OzzyOsbourne headlining Moonstock; a festival based around the solar eclipse happening in August. https://t.co/b3nu4yCBnF h…
RT @BlackSabbath: on the cover of the current issue of @MetalHammer https://t.co/U2NTb3l5VY https://t.co/F59S10XuYp
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