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Chapman Pincher


Born
in Ambala, Punjab, India
March 29, 1914

Died
August 05, 2014

Genre
Nonfiction, History, Science


Harry Chapman Pincher was an Indian-born British journalist, historian, and novelist whose writing mainly focused on espionage and related matters, after some early books on scientific subjects.

Harry Chapman Pincher was born in India in 1914 while his father was serving in the British Army. After moving to Great Britain, Chapman Pincher studied first at Darlington Grammar School and then King's College London before entering the teaching profession. He served in the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War and then embarked upon a lengthy and successful career in journalism, joining the Daily Express as a science and defence correspondent. Famed for his exposés, he was regarded as one of the finest investigative reporters of the twent ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 455 ratings · 57 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors
Their Trade is Treachery
3.73 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1981 — 13 editions
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Too Secret Too Long
3.88 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1984 — 15 editions
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Treachery: Betrayals, Blund...
3.84 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions
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Not with a Bang
3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1965 — 13 editions
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Dirty Tricks : A Cold War T...
4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions
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A Web of Deception : The Re...
3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions
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Dangerous to Know: A Life
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions
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The Spycatcher Affair: A We...
3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions
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Inside story: A Documentary...
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1978 — 9 editions
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Traitors: the labyrinths of...
2.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1987 — 9 editions
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“Going to war is like going to law - the only certain outcome is the cost”
― Chapman Pincher, Their Trade is Treachery
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“The danger of contacts of any kind was exposed in 1970 by the arrest, trial and subsequent acquittal of Will Owen, the 68-year-old Labour MP for Morpeth, on Official Secrets charges. Owen, who headed a travel firm specialising in visits to East Germany, was also a member of Parliament’s Estimates Committee, and he was charged with giving Czech intelligence information of a confidential nature.”
― Chapman Pincher, Their Trade Is Treachery
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