Michael Smith (newspaper reporter)
Michael Smith (born 1952) is a British author who specializes in spies and espionage.[1] He is also a former member of the board of the Bletchley Park Trust.[2]
Smith is a former soldier and
Smith won a British Press Award in 2006 for Specialist Writer of the Year.[5] The award was for his work in revealing the Downing Street memo.
Smith obtained the first six of the eight Downing Street Memos while working for the
He is the author of a number of books, including the UK Number 1 bestseller Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park (1998). This was
Smith's book Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews (1999) led to
Before becoming a journalist, Smith was a member of the British Army, serving for nine years in the Intelligence Corps.[6] After leaving the Army, he worked as a journalist, initially for BBC Monitoring. He then joined the Daily Telegraph where he worked as an assistant foreign editor, then a news reporter and finally Defence Correspondent. In 2005, he joined the Sunday Times where he specialised in defence and intelligence issues. Smith left the Sunday Times in 2012 to become a full-time author.[7]
Smith has written 16 works of non-fiction. His first novel Ritter: No Man Dies Twice, a detective/spy thriller set in
Books by Michael Smith
- Elphick, Peter and Smith, Michael : Odd Man Out: The Story of the Singapore Traitor (1993, Hodder and Stoughton) ISBN 978-0340587621
- Smith, Michael : New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain’s Spies Came in from the Cold (1996, Gollancz) ISBN 978-0575061507
- Smith, Michael : Station X (1998, Boxtree) ISBN 978-0752221892
- Smith, Michael : Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews (1999, Hodder and Stoughton) ISBN 978-0340718506
- Smith, Michael : The Spying Game (2003, Politicos) ISBN 978-1842750049
- Smith, Michael : Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America’s Most Secret Special Operations Team (2007, St Martin's Press) ISBN 978-0312362720
- Smith, Michael : Six: A History of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (2010, Biteback) ISBN 978-1906447120
- Smith, Michael : The Emperor's Codes (2010, Biteback) ISBN 978-1906447120
- Erskine, Ralph and Smith, Michael (editors): The Bletchley Park Codebreakers (2011, Biteback) ISBN 978-1849540780
- Smith, Michael : Britain’s Secret War (2011, Andre Deutsch) ISBN 978-0233003375
- Smith, Michael : The Secrets of Station X (2011, Biteback) ISBN 978-1849540957
- Smith, Michael : Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of Station X (2013, Shire) ISBN 978-0747812159
- Smith, Michael (editor): The Secret Agent’s Bedside Reader (2014, Biteback) ISBN 978-1849547406
- Smith, Michael : The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories (2015, Aurum) ISBN 978-1781313879
- Smith, Michael : The Anatomy of a Spy (2020, Arcade) ISBN 978-1950691166
- Smith, Michael : Ritter: No Man Dies Twice (2022, Safe House) ISBN 978-1739754006
- Smith, Michael : The Real Special Relationship (2023, Arcade) ISBN 978-1956763683
Notes
- ^ "About Michael Smith. Retrieved 21 November 2016."
- ^ "Bletchley Park website Michael Smith. Retrieved 21 November 2016."
- ^ "British Journalist Michael Smith, 'Downing Street Memo'". NPR. 6 July 2005. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
- ^ "The Downing Street Memos. Retrieved 21 November 2016."
- ^ ""British Press Awards as they happened. Retrieved 21 November 2016."
- ^ Publisher’s blurb to 2000 book
- ^ "About Michael Smith. Retrieved 21 November 2016."
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