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About the Author: Helen Fry
Historian Helen Fry has written extensively on the Second World War with particular reference to the 10,000 Germans & Austrians who fought for Britain; and also intelligence and espionage. Helen's latest book "Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars" is published in September 2023.
MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two" has been widely covered in the national press. Her critically acclaimed book "The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of WWII" featured in the Top 8 Books of the Year by the Daily Mail (2019).
She is the leading expert on the 'secret listeners' at special eavesdropping sites by British intelligence in WWII. She has been at the forefront of widespread coverage and in-depth research of the greatest intelligence deception of the war: the bugging of Hitler’s generals at Trent Park, North London as well as Latimer House and Wilton Park in Buckinghamshire. Helen is recognised as the official biographer of MI6 spymaster, Colonel Thomas Joseph Kendrick. Her biography of Kendrick - "Spymaster: The Man who saved MI6" - has been highly acclaimed as one of Waterstones best biographies of the year 2021.
Her published books include "The London Cage" about Britain's Secret WW2 Interrogation Centre, amongst a portfolio of books that include "Inside Nuremberg Prison"; "Denazification: Britain's Enemy Aliens, Nazi war Criminals & the Reconstruction of post-war Europe"; "Freuds' War" and "Churchill's German Army", "From Dachau to D-Day" and "German Schoolboy, British Commando". She appears frequently in TV documentaries, podcasts, and broadcasts as well live interviews on the BBC and BBC World News. She can be found on Twitter @DrHelenFry and Facebook.
Helen is an ambassador for The Museum of Military Intelligence; an Honorary member of the Association of Jewish Refugees; and a Trustee of The Medmenham Collection. Helen was honoured as 'A Women of Achievement', alongside 400 women at the Women of the Year Lunch 2022.
Biography Credit: www.Helen-Fry.Com
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