Giles Whittell

Giles Whittell is the author of Bridge of Spies, Spitfire Women of World War II and Snow: A Scientific and Cultural Exploration. He is World Affairs Editor at Tortoise Media, having been the Times' chief leader writer for three years and the Times correspondent in LA, Moscow and Washington. Whittell was educated at Sherborne School and Christ's College, Cambridge. He has worked for The Times of London since 1993, first as US West Coast Correspondent from 1993 and later as Moscow Correspondent 1999 and Washington Bureau Chief 2009. In 2019 he was the paper's chief leader writer. 'His books include Lambada Country (1992), Extreme Continental (1994), Spitfire Women of World War II (2007) and Bridge of Spies, a New York Times bestselling account of the Cold War spy swap between Rudolf Abel, Gary Powers and Frederic Pryor on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge in 1962. The book was published in the US in 2010 and the United Kingdom in 2011.' Wikipedia Snow: A Scientific and Cultural Exploration, was published by Atria Books in November 2019. His latest book, The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot is due in March 2022 - Penguin. His podcast, From Russia with Diamonds is on Tortoise Media now.