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The Greatest Traitor - The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake (Paperback, PB Reissue)
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The Greatest Traitor - The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake (Paperback, PB Reissue)
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List price R432
Loot Price R321
Discovery Miles 3 210
You Save R111 (26%)
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Sober, accurate and all the more thrilling for it. The best thing
on Blake that we are likely to get for a very long time.' JOHN LE
CARRE On 3 May 1961, after a trial conducted largely in secret, a
man named George Blake was sentenced to an unprecedented forty-two
years in jail. At the time few details of his crimes were made
known. By his own confession he was a Soviet spy, and rumours later
circulated that his actions had endangered British agents, but the
reasons for such a severe punishment were never revealed. To the
public, Blake was simply the greatest traitor of the Cold War. Yet,
as Roger Hermiston reveals in this thrilling new biography, his
story touches not only the depths of treachery but also the heights
of heroism. Drawing on hitherto unpublished records from his trial,
new revelations about his dramatic jailbreak from Wormwood Scrubs,
and original interviews with former spies, friends and the man
himself, The Greatest Traitor sheds new light on this most complex
of characters and presents a fascinating shadow history of the Cold
War.
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