[PDF/ePub]->The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Writen By Ben Macintyre
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By : Ben Macintyre
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Book Synopsis :
The celebrated author of?Double Cross?and?Rogue Heroes?returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling?Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. 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
Book Detail :
Author : Ben Macintyre
Pages : 415 pages
Publisher : Crown
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : B0782X9PFP
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