{"product_id":"9781447217008","title":"My Life As A Spy","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn award-winning and highly distinguished documentary film-maker, Leslie Woodhead has written a funny, sad and highly atmospheric memoir of what it was like to be hurled into maturity amidst the peculiar circumstances of the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the spring of 1956, like two million other men of his generation, the eighteen-year old Leslie Woodhead received a summons to serve Her Majesty. Charting his progress from the austerity of post-war Halifax, via comically bleak RAF training camps and the grim, isolated Joint Services School for Linguistics, \u003ci\u003eMy Life As A Spy\u003c\/i\u003e takes us finally to Berlin and the front line of the Cold War. In the ruins of a city gripped by espionage and paranoia, Leslie Woodhead discovered adulthood and his vocation as an observer and documenter of people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A slice of Cold War history and a poignant tale of how our lives can be formed by events and experiences we barely comprehend at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e '[a] delightfully irreverent memoir. . . Woodhead's memories exude a wonderful sense of nostalgia for a world of lost innocence that to anyone over 60 is instantly recognisable' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107150807280,"sku":"9781447217008","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781447217008_p0.jpg?v=1763817701","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781447217008","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}