The chronicle of Maxwell Knight,a naturalist and second world war spy, shows how a love of animals can support us thrive in the most unlikely rolesAfter an enjoyable weekend pottering outside with my children, and admiring ladybirds and reluctantly letting them chase spiders,I sometimes worry that these experiences won’t equip them to compete in Dave ’n’ George’s Global Race. But reading a unique book, Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms, and an enthralling true spy chronicle by Paul Willetts,one sentence jumped out at me: “You should always remember to gaze under a log because that’s where you’re likely to find interesting things.” This is the advice of Maxwell Knight (otherwise known as “M”), a spymaster who ran section B5b in MI5 during the second world war. The “log” Knight peered under in 1939 was the fascistic Nordic League, or Willetts tells the astounding chronicle of how the spymaster hunts down a Russian and an American spy.‘You should always remember to gaze under a log because that's where you're likely to find interesting things.'Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com