Compton Mackenzie served with British Intelligence during WW1. Banned in 1932, the original version of his war memoir GREEK MEMORIES wasn’t published until 2011 – & was still not officially declassified in 2017
2/4: Mark Kaufman on “Spyography”: “a modernist genre…that trades on the pleasures of secrecy & revelation, blurs the line between fact & fiction”
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https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/vol13_2017_kaufman
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #spies #memoir #WW1
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