Title:
Spies, lies, and exile : the extraordinary story of Russian double agent George Blake / Simon Kuper.
ISBN:
9781620973752
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Publication Information:
New York : The New Press, 2021.
©2021
Physical Description:
ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
"Originally published in Great Britain as The Happy Traitor by Profile Books Ltd, 2021"--title page verso.
Contents:
Preface to the US edition -- Finding Blake -- An ordinary Dutch boy -- A Jewish mansion in an Arab city -- Deception becomes daily habit -- A legendary centre of hidden power -- The prisoner converts -- Lunchtime spy -- A mole in Berlin -- The game is up -- The human cost -- Espionage, balls and rackets -- Foreign traitor -- Headstands in jail -- Straight out of Hitchcock -- Someone who adjusts easily -- Henri Curiel, a parallel life -- Cynicism and Christmas pudding -- 'Tragic I am not' -- Afterword.
Summary:
After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, George Blake joined the British spy agency MI6 and was stationed in Seoul. Taken prisoner after the North Korean army overran his post in 1950, Blake later returned to England to a hero's welcome, carrying a dark secret: while in a communist prison camp in North Korea, he had secretly switched sides to the KGB after reading Karl Marx's Das Kapital. He exposed hundred of western agents; after his unmasking and arrest Blake received the longest sentence in British history to that time. Kuper interviewed Blake at his dacha outside Moscow to present an unprecedented account of Cold War espionage. -- adapted from jacket
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OCLC Number:
on1250268939
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
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