I'm mostly lukewarm about the Globe and Mail's Saturday Book section, but last Saturday I enjoyed Wesley Wark's takedown of several books on spy history. Wark teaches security and intelligence history at Toronto, and his assault on old and new spy books by William Stevenson (A Man called Intrepid, etc.) and E. Howard Hunt (Bay of Pigs, Watergate, etc.) was a tour de force of snark and evidence combined.
Shoring up his attack by citing the late Hugh Trevor-Roper, now discredited as much for the antediluvian prejudices revealed in his private letters as for that Hitler Diaries thing, was maybe not good strategy if an "exchange" is about to begin.
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