The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold WarCrown, 18. sep. 2018 - 384 síður NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. For nearly a decade, as the Cold War reached its twilight, Gordievsky helped the West turn the tables on the KGB, exposing Russian spies and helping to foil countless intelligence plots, as the Soviet leadership grew increasingly paranoid at the United States's nuclear first-strike capabilities and brought the world closer to the brink of war. Desperate to keep the circle of trust close, MI6 never revealed Gordievsky's name to its counterparts in the CIA, which in turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain's obviously top-level source. Their obsession ultimately doomed Gordievsky: the CIA officer assigned to identify him was none other than Aldrich Ames, the man who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets. Unfolding the delicious three-way gamesmanship between America, Britain, and the Soviet Union, and culminating in the gripping cinematic beat-by-beat of Gordievsky's nail-biting escape from Moscow in 1985, Ben Macintyre's latest may be his best yet. Like the greatest novels of John le Carré, it brings readers deep into a world of treachery and betrayal, where the lines bleed between the personal and the professional, and one man's hatred of communism had the power to change the future of nations. |
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... British intelligence history because he understands the essence of the business . " -The Washington Post " Who was the most important spy of the Cold War era ? Ben Macintyre convincingly nominates Oleg Gordievsky .... Readers should ...
... British intelligence history because he understands the essence of the business . " -The Washington Post " Who was the most important spy of the Cold War era ? Ben Macintyre convincingly nominates Oleg Gordievsky .... Readers should ...
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... secret servant of the Soviet Union, was a British spy. Recruited a dozen years earlier by MI6, Britain's foreign- intelligence service, the agent code-named NOCTON had proven to be one of the most valuable spies in history. The immense ...
... secret servant of the Soviet Union, was a British spy. Recruited a dozen years earlier by MI6, Britain's foreign- intelligence service, the agent code-named NOCTON had proven to be one of the most valuable spies in history. The immense ...
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... spy ring, a network of informants gathering naval secrets. (A KGB dentist had ... British court was uncertain of his real name. When Gordievsky met him ... intelligence to the KGB, and finally defected to the Soviet Union in January ...
... spy ring, a network of informants gathering naval secrets. (A KGB dentist had ... British court was uncertain of his real name. When Gordievsky met him ... intelligence to the KGB, and finally defected to the Soviet Union in January ...
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... British intelligence nicknamed him “Smiley Mike.” The British were the enemy, and he adored them. In 1965 he had tried and failed to recruit a British cipher clerk, and the intelligence service promptly attempted to recruit him. When he ...
... British intelligence nicknamed him “Smiley Mike.” The British were the enemy, and he adored them. In 1965 he had tried and failed to recruit a British cipher clerk, and the intelligence service promptly attempted to recruit him. When he ...
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... British intelligence officer was leafing through a " personal file " that had recently arrived from Canada ... intelligence than anyone else in history . " Brought up in southeast London , the son of a printer who had left school at ...
... British intelligence officer was leafing through a " personal file " that had recently arrived from Canada ... intelligence than anyone else in history . " Brought up in southeast London , the son of a printer who had left school at ...
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Ben Macintyre Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2018 |
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