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Author : Seán Bourke
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Springing of George Blake written by Seán Bourke and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1970 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sean Bourke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Springing of George Blake written by Sean Bourke and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Kuper
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620973766
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Spies, Lies, and Exile written by Simon Kuper and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating, rich, and probing . . . a beguiling and endlessly interesting portrait”—The Wall Street Journal For fans of John le Carré and Ben Macintyre, an exclusive first-person account of one of the Cold War’s most notorious spies “Kuper provides a different and valuable perspective, humane and informative. If the definition of a psychopath is someone who refuses to accept the consequences of his actions, does George fit the definition? There he sits, admitting it was all for nothing, but has no regrets. Or does he?” —John le Carré Few Cold War spy stories approach the sheer daring and treachery of George Blake’s. After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, 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. As a Soviet double agent, Blake betrayed uncounted western spying operations—including the storied Berlin Tunnel, the most expensive covert project ever undertaken by the CIA and MI6. Blake exposed hundreds of western agents, forty of whom were likely executed. After his unmasking and arrest, he received, for that time, the longest sentence in modern British history—only to make a dramatic escape to the Soviet Union in 1966, five years into his forty-two-year sentence. He left his wife, three children, and a stunned country behind. Much of Blake’s career existed inside the hall of mirrors that was the Cold War, especially following his sensational escape from Wormwood Scrubs prison. Veteran journalist Simon Kuper tracked Blake to his dacha outside Moscow, where the aging spy agreed to be interviewed for this unprecedented account of Cold War espionage. Following the master spy’s death in Moscow at age ninety-eight on December 26, 2020, Kuper is finally able to set the record straight.
Author : Harford Montgomery Hyde
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book George Blake, Superspy written by Harford Montgomery Hyde and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 1987 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Seán Bourke
Publisher : London : Cassell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Springing of George Blake written by Seán Bourke and published by London : Cassell. This book was released on 1970 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Skelton
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0375841997
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Endymion Spring written by Matthew Skelton and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You've stumbled on to something much larger than you can possibly imagine." In the dead of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snow-covered streets. The chest, covered in images of mythical beasts, can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood. Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The volume is blank, wordless, but its paper has fine veins running through it and seems to quiver, as if it's alive. Words begin to appear on the page--words no one but the boy can see. And so unfolds a timeless secret . . . .
Author : Michael Levy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838214897
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ban the Bomb! written by Michael Levy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1950s, Michael Randle helped pioneer a new form of direct action against nuclear war, based on the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. At the forefront of the British campaign, he worked closely with Peace News editor Hugh Brock (1914–1985) and other distinguished ‘anti-nuclear pacifists’ such as Pat Arrowsmith, April Carter, and Ian Dixon, serving as chairman of the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War (1958-1961) and secretary of the Committee of 100 (1960-1961). In 1966, he helped ‘spring’ the Russian spy George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Thereafter, he campaigned vigorously on behalf of the Greek democratic opposition, conscientious objectors, and Soviet dissidents. He has always been a man of rare candor and singular energy and principles, even enduring imprisonment for his beliefs. Nowadays, Michael lives in Shipley near Bradford, where he continues to write as a respected expert on ‘people power’. Martin Levy’s interviews with Michael Randle introduce the reader to a tumultuous life that is nothing short of extraordinary.
Author : George Blake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Oration, Pronounced July 4th, 1795 written by George Blake and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Kuper
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782833986
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Happy Traitor written by Simon Kuper and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A deeply human read, wonderfully written, on the foibles of a fascinating, flawed, treacherous and sort of likeable character.' Philippe Sands Those people who were betrayed were not innocent people. They were no better nor worse than I am. It's all part of the intelligence world. If the man who turned me in came to my house today, I'd invite him to sit down and have a cup of tea. George Blake was the last remaining Cold War spy. As a Senior Officer in the British Intelligence Service who was double agent for the Soviet Union, his actions had devastating consequences for Britain. Yet he was also one of the least known double agents, and remained unrepentant. In 1961, Blake was sentenced to forty-two years imprisonment for betraying to the KGB all of the Western operations in which he was involved, and the names of hundreds of British agents working behind the Iron Curtain. This was the longest sentence for espionage ever to have been handed down by a British court. On the surface, Blake was a charming, intelligent and engaging man, and most importantly, a seemingly committed patriot. Underneath, a ruthlessly efficient mole and key player in the infamous 'Berlin Tunnel' operation. This illuminating biography tracks Blake from humble beginnings as a teenage courier for the Dutch underground during the Second World War, to the sensational prison-break from Wormwood Scrubs that inspired Hitchcock to write screenplay. Through a combination of personal interviews, research and unique access to Stasi records, journalist Simon Kuper unravels who Blake truly was, what he was capable of, and why he did it.
Author : R. H. Bruce Lockhart
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848326297
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a British Agent written by R. H. Bruce Lockhart and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 1932, this memoir was an immediate classic, both as a unique eyewitness account of Revolutionary Russia and as one mans story of struggle, and tragedy set against the background of great events. Aged 25, Lockhart became the British Vice-Consul to Moscow in 1912. With revolution in the air, it was dangerous, decadent posting. The 'Boy Ambassador' became an eyewitness to pivotal events and in 1918 was charged with establishing a diplomatic understanding with the Bolsheviks, to ensure that Russia remained in the war against Germany. It was a precarious mission: Whitehall could not be seen support revolutionaries; Lockhart grew wary of his masters secret machinations; while Lenin and Trotsky's cordial relations with the British agent never quite dispelled their mistrust of the nation he represented. When Lockhart met Moura Budberg, who became the great love of his life, he was in an increasingly vulnerable position. In September 1918 he would be falsely accused of a counter-revolutionary plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks, and sent to the Loubianka. His account even inspired a Hollywood movie. From his evocative descriptions of revolutionary Moscow, where the champagne flowed as the bourgeoisie trembled, to his audiences with Trotsky and his brushes with death, this is a vivid, unique memoir.
