The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/03/2014
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 Drawing on hitherto unpublished records from his trial, new revelations about his dramatic jailbreak from Wormwood Scrubs, and original interviews with former spies, friends and the man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.
- ISBN:
- 9781781311639
- 9781781311639
- Category:
- Biography: historical
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 15-03-2014
- Publisher:
- Quarto Publishing PLC
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions (mm):
- 198x129x26mm
- Weight:
- 0.29kg
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