Helen Fry
About Helen Fry
Helen Fry has authored and edited over 25 books covering the social history of the Second World War, including British Intelligence and the secret war, espionage, and spies, as well as MI9 escape and evasion. She is the foremost authority on the “secret listeners” who worked at special eavesdropping sites operated by British Intelligence during WWII. Helen is the official biographer of MI6 spymaster, Colonel Thomas Joseph Kendrick. She has also extensively written about the 10,000 Germans who fought for Britain during WWII. Helen has appeared in a number of documentaries and has provided advisory services for TV and drama. She also appears regularly in media interviews and podcasts. Helen is an ambassador for the National Centre for Military Intelligence (NCMI) and serves as a trustee of both the Friends of the Intelligence Corps Museum and the Medmenham Collection. She works in London.
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Helen’s lectures (75)
Date
Title
4 January
Garbo: D-Day and the Double Agent
10 January
Hitler’s Secret Structures in France
18 January
World War II: Special Operations and Agents in the Balkans
2 February
A Conversation on Tom Petch's book, "Speed, Aggression, Surprise The Untold Secret Origins of the SAS"
23 February
Frank Foley: The Spy who Saved 10,000 Jews in Berlin
30 March
Spies and Diplomats who Saved Jews (Kendrick and Foley)
3 April
'Mission France': A Conversation on the SOE Agents Behind Enemy Lines in France in WWII
9 May
The Cambridge Spies, Part 1
11 May
The Cambridge Spies, Part 2
29 May
Marilyn Monroe: Icon and Mystery
12 June
Helen Fry and Susan Ronald Discuss Susan's Book “Hitler’s Aristocrats: The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923–1941”
27 July
Israel Lipski: A Victorian Murder Case
10 August
Buster Crabbe: The Disappearing Frogman and Headless Body
23 August
Kim Philby: Spy and Traitor
4 September
Music and Men: Unveiling the Life of Harriet Cohen, Part 1
12 September
Music and Men: Unveiling the Life of Harriet Cohen, Part 2
31 October
Women in Intelligence: The Spies Who Can Be Remembered
6 November
Inside Nuremberg Prison: Recollections of an American Jewish Refugee Soldier
21 November
Secret Agent: Unsung Hero
4 December
Helen Fry in conversation with Barnaby Jameson on his spy book ‘Codename: Madeleine’