The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold WarCrown, 18. sep. 2018 - 384 síđur 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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... KGB's counterintelligence section, Directorate K, this was a routine bugging job. It took less than a minute to ... officer landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on the Aeroflot flight from London. Colonel Oleg Antonyevich Gordievsky ...
... KGB's counterintelligence section, Directorate K, this was a routine bugging job. It took less than a minute to ... officer landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on the Aeroflot flight from London. Colonel Oleg Antonyevich Gordievsky ...
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... KGB officer. Elaborate and hazardous, the escape plan could be triggered only as a last resort. Gordievsky had been trained to spot danger. As he walked through the airport, his nerves ragged with internal stress, he saw signs of peril ...
... KGB officer. Elaborate and hazardous, the escape plan could be triggered only as a last resort. Gordievsky had been trained to spot danger. As he walked through the airport, his nerves ragged with internal stress, he saw signs of peril ...
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... KGB man,” the former KGB officer Vladimir Putin once said. This was an exclusive club to join—and an impossible one to leave. Entering the ranks of the KGB was an honor and a duty to those with sufficient talent and ambition to do so ...
... KGB man,” the former KGB officer Vladimir Putin once said. This was an exclusive club to join—and an impossible one to leave. Entering the ranks of the KGB was an honor and a duty to those with sufficient talent and ambition to do so ...
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... KGB ran two distinct species of spy in foreign countries. The first worked under formal cover, as a member of the ... officers in various official guises, all under the command of a rezident (head of station in MI6 parlance, or station ...
... KGB ran two distinct species of spy in foreign countries. The first worked under formal cover, as a member of the ... officers in various official guises, all under the command of a rezident (head of station in MI6 parlance, or station ...
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... KGB. Fear of authority was instinctive, the habit of obedience ingrained. Directorate S had provided the name of a ... officer, who would not have approved of such ideological wavering. Just as their mother had concealed her true ...
... KGB. Fear of authority was instinctive, the habit of obedience ingrained. Directorate S had provided the name of a ... officer, who would not have approved of such ideological wavering. Just as their mother had concealed her true ...
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| Titill | The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War |
| Höfundur | Ben Macintyre |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Útgefandi | Crown, 2018 |
| ISBN | 1101904208, 9781101904206 |
| Length | 384 síđur |
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