A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Tapa blanda - 2014

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London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2014 9781408851739. Trade paperback. Fine. Like New. No creases to spine or cover. No annotations, inscriptions etc. 368 pages including notes, bibliography and index. 8vo. Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all. This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and Washington; of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. With access to newly released MI5 files and… Leer más

Broadway Books, 2014. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2014. Reprint. Softcover (Photographic). Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Preface an introduction by author, afterword by John le Carre, notes, bibliography, acknowledgements and index. The text is illustrated with two inserts, of 16 pages of black-and-white photography. Photographic paperback binding with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "Agent, double agent, charmer and traitor, Kim Philby betrayed the most secret Anglo-American operations in the early years of the Cold War. <snip> the astonishing life of Kim Philby, the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history, is a tale of political loyalty and personal duplicity; a chilling examination of how far anyone can ever really know another human being." – from the rear panel blurb. Creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. The front panel has started to curl. Very light age toning of the textblock edges… Leer más

London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, spine little creased, minor edgewear. 355 pp. Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet spy in history. Double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they did not know him at all. He was "one of us" (the British elite, and therefore trustworthy), which overlooked his suspicious student background at Cambridge University. With access to newly released MI5 files and family papers, this definitive biography by Ben Macintyre unlocks one of the last great secret of the Cold War. (1 of 2 available copies.).