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• The Thriller Writer and the Ministry of Information

  Posted by Hirving on Feb. 07, 2019 | Comments

  

  This post first appeared on the Talking Humanities blog.

  Although government institutions can appear impersonal, all are shaped by those who work for them. This was especially true of the Ministry of Information established at the outbreak of the Second World War. Its (mostly temporary) staff were an eclectic …