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A Spy Named Orphan - The Enigma of Donald Maclean (Hardcover)
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A Spy Named Orphan - The Enigma of Donald Maclean (Hardcover)
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Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a
keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a
Russian spy, driven by passionately held beliefs, whose betrayal
and defection to Moscow reverberated for decades. Christened
'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was the perfect spy and
Britain's most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge amounts of
top-secret intelligence, an international code-breaking operation
was rapidly closing in on him. Moments before he was unmasked,
Maclean vanished. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified
material, Roland Philipps now tells this story for the first time
in full. He unravels Maclean's character and contradictions: a
childhood that was simultaneously liberal and austere; a Cambridge
education mixing in Communist circles; a polished diplomat with a
tendency to wild binges; a marriage complicated by secrets; an
accelerated rise through the Foreign Office and, above all, a gift
for deception. Taking us back to the golden age of espionage, A Spy
Named Orphan reveals the impact of one of the most dangerous and
enigmatic Soviet agents of the twentieth century, whose actions
heightened the tensions of the Cold War.
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