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Edward Crankshaw was born on 3 January, 1909 in Germany, is an A 20th-century british male writer. Discover Edward Crankshaw's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?
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Edward Crankshaw Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Edward Crankshaw worth at the age of 75 years old? Edward Crankshaw’s income source is mostly from being a successful writer. He is from Germany. We have estimated Edward Crankshaw's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Edward Crankshaw (3 January 1909 – 30 November 1984) was a British writer, author, translator and commentator; best known for his work on Soviet affairs and the Gestapo (Secret State Police) of Nazi Germany.
William Edward Crankshaw was born in the suburban town of Woodford, Essex (now Woodford, London), on 3 January 1909 to Arthur Edward Crankshaw (1876–1965) and Amy Beatrice Crankshaw (1879–1962).
He had one sibling, a younger brother Geoffrey Crankshaw (1912–2009) a noted critic of English music.
Edward Crankshaw was educated in the Nonconformist public school Bishop's Stortford College, Hertfordshire, England.
He started working as a journalist for a few months at The Times.
In the 1930s he lived in Vienna, Austria, teaching English and learning German.
He witnessed Adolf Hitler's Austro-German union in 1938, and predicted the Second World War while living there.
In 1940 Crankshaw was contacted by the Secret Intelligence Service because of his knowledge of German.
During World War II he served as a "Y" (Signals Intelligence) officer in the British Army.
From 1941 to 1943 he was assigned to the British Military Mission in Moscow, where he served initially as an Army "Y" specialist and later as the accredited representative of the British "Y" services, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Following a breakdown in "Y" cooperation with the Soviet General Staff in December 1942, the British "Y" Board recalled Crankshaw to London in February 1943.
In May he was assigned to Bletchley Park, where he served as a liaison officer on matters pertaining to Russia.
From 1947 to 1968 he worked for the British Sunday newspaper The Observer, specialising in Soviet affairs.
He obtained a transcript of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's secret denunciation of Stalin in 1956, a newspaper sensation.
While a junior reporter, Crankshaw had been summoned by Guy Burgess of the Foreign Office to be criticised for being "too soft towards Russia"; after Burgess was unmasked as one of the Cambridge Five spies (for the Soviet Union), and fled to Moscow, Crankshaw met him there several times, though he did not report on Burgess for The Observer, and ended up liking the spy.
He wrote around forty books, mainly on Austrian and Russian subjects.
Crankshaw died on 30 November 1984 in Hawkhurst, Kent.
