Peter Daybell Knihy

In The Bedbug, Peter Day brings to life a man descended from Russian aristocrats and Ethiopian princesses but who fancied himself the perfect Englishman.

During the late summer of 1915, the story of Aiden Liddell VC filled many newspaper columns. This text tells the story of his life. From his birth in Lancashire to a wealthy family, it follows his joining of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in peacetime, then his active service in the trenches of the first years of WWI.

Peter Day brings to life the world of twentieth-century espionage through the story of one of Britain's most remarkable spies. A contemporary of Arthur Ransome and Sidney Reilly, Hill's life coincided with an age of swashbuckling secret agents, swordsticks and secret assignations with deadly female spies.