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The Happy Traitor - Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake (Hardcover, Main)
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The Happy Traitor - Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake (Hardcover, Main)
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Loot Price R560
Discovery Miles 5 600
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR '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.
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