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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... as official KGB rezident then MI6, the CIA, and their Western allies would hit the intelligence jackpot, but if Gordievsky was walking into a trap he would lose everything, including his life . He had thought long and hard.
... as official KGB rezident then MI6, the CIA, and their Western allies would hit the intelligence jackpot, but if Gordievsky was walking into a trap he would lose everything, including his life . He had thought long and hard.
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... thought long and hard before making up his mind : " I will go back . " Once again , the MI6 officers went over Gordievsky's emergency escape plan , code - named PIMLICO , that had been drawn up seven years earlier in the hope that it ...
... thought long and hard before making up his mind : " I will go back . " Once again , the MI6 officers went over Gordievsky's emergency escape plan , code - named PIMLICO , that had been drawn up seven years earlier in the hope that it ...
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... thoughts . One of the few students he grew close to was Stanislaw Kaplan , a fellow runner on the university track team . “ Standa ” Kaplan was Czechoslovakian and had already obtained a degree from Charles University in Prague by the ...
... thoughts . One of the few students he grew close to was Stanislaw Kaplan , a fellow runner on the university track team . “ Standa ” Kaplan was Czechoslovakian and had already obtained a degree from Charles University in Prague by the ...
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... thought or self - examination on either side , ' and then married , without fanfare , a few months later , for reasons that were less than romantic : she would improve his chances of promotion , and he was her passport out of Moscow ...
... thought or self - examination on either side , ' and then married , without fanfare , a few months later , for reasons that were less than romantic : she would improve his chances of promotion , and he was her passport out of Moscow ...
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... thoughts turned to Stanislaw Kaplan, his outspoken friend at university. What must Standa be feeling as the Soviet tanks rolled into his country? Kaplan was outraged. After leaving Russia, he had worked at the Ministry of the Interior ...
... thoughts turned to Stanislaw Kaplan, his outspoken friend at university. What must Standa be feeling as the Soviet tanks rolled into his country? Kaplan was outraged. After leaving Russia, he had worked at the Ministry of the Interior ...
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Ben Macintyre Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2018 |
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Ben Macintyre Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2018 |
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Ben Macintyre Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2019 |
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