ISBN: 0586028609
Godina izdanja: 1981
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Kim Philby - My Silent War
Granada, 1981
189 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.A.R. “Kim” Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as MI6’s liaison with the CIA and the FBI, betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians, fatally compromising covert actions to roll back the Iron Curtain in the early years of the Cold War.

Written from Moscow in 1967, My Silent War shook the world and introduced a new archetype in fiction: the unrepentant spy. It inspired John le Carre’s Smiley novels and the later espionage novels of Graham Greene. Kim Philby was history’s most successful spy. He was also an exceptional writer who gave us the great iconic story of the Cold War and revolutionized, in the process, the art of espionage writing.


-Contents
Kim Philby by Graham Greene
Preface
Foreword
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
CURTAIN RAISER: A WHIFF OF THE FIRING SQUAD
I. TAKEN ON BY THE SECRET SERVICE
II. IN AND OUT OF SOE
III. “AN OLD-ESTABLISHED RACKET”—SIS
IV. BRITISH AND ALLIED INTELLIGENCE COMPLEX
V. ON THE UP AND UP
VI. THE FULFILMENT
VII. FROM WAR TO PEACE
VIII. THE VOLKOV CASE
IX. THE TERRIBLE TURK
X. THE LION’S DEN
XI. THE CLOUDBURST
XII. ORDEAL
XIII. THE CLOUDS PART
EPILOGUE: HOME AND DRY
CHRONOLOGY


Nonfiction, Biography, History, Spy Thriller, Espionage, War, 0586028609