Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story (2011),.Documentaries įive of his books have been made into documentaries for the BBC: He has three children and is divorced from the writer and documentary maker Kate Muir. The book received generally favorable reviews. In 2022 his book Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle was released, a history of the German prison and its inhabitants, mostly British POWs. Macintyre's 2020 book Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy, a biography of Soviet agent Ursula Kuczynski, was featured on BBC Radio 4 as a Book of the Week. In 2008, Macintyre wrote an illustrated account of Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional spy James Bond, to accompany the For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming and James Bond exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum, which was part of the Fleming Centenary celebrations. His book on Eddie Chapman, a double agent of Germany and Britain during the Second World War, was titled Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy. Harlan is one of the candidates presumed to be the basis for Rudyard Kipling's short story The Man Who Would Be King.

This was also published as Josiah the Great: The True Story of the Man who Would be King. He also wrote The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan (about Josiah Harlan). Macintyre is the author of a book on the gentleman criminal Adam Worth, The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief. Macintyre was educated at Abingdon School and St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with a degree in history in 1985. His paternal grandmother was a descendant of James Netterville, 7th Viscount Netterville. 1994), Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford (elected Principal of Hertford College, Oxford before his death in a car accident), author of the first scholarly work on the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell, general editor of the Oxford Historical Monographs series from 1971 to 1979, editor of The English Historical Review from 1978 to 1986, and Chairman of the Governors of Magdalen College School from 1987 to 1990, and Joanna, daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave Harvey, 2nd Baronet and a descendant of Berkeley Paget.

Macintyre is the elder son of Angus Donald Macintyre (d. His columns range from current affairs to historical controversies.

Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre (born 25 December 1963) is a British author, reviewer and columnist for The Times newspaper.

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