| Description |
ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published in Great Britain as The Happy Traitor by Profile Books Ltd, 2021"--title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-266) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface to the US edition -- Finding Blake -- An ordinary Dutch boy -- A Jewish mansion in an Arab city -- Deception becomes daily habit -- A legendary centre of hidden power -- The prisoner converts -- Lunchtime spy -- A mole in Berlin -- The game is up -- The human cost -- Espionage, balls and rackets -- Foreign traitor -- Headstands in jail -- Straight out of Hitchcock -- Someone who adjusts easily -- Henri Curiel, a parallel life -- Cynicism and Christmas pudding -- 'Tragic I am not'. |
| Summary |
Few Cold War spy stories approach the sheer daring and treachery of George Blake's. After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, Blake joined the British spy agency MI6 and was stationed in Seoul. Taken prisoner after the North Korean army overran his post in 1950, Blake later returned to England to a hero's welcome, carrying a dark secret: while in a communist prison camp in North Korea, he had secretly switched sides to the KGB after reading Karl Marx's Das Kapital. |
| Subject |
Blake, George, 1922-2020.
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Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Espionage, Soviet.
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Blake, George, 1922-2020. (OCoLC)fst00002403
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Espionage, Soviet. (OCoLC)fst00915419
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Spies. (OCoLC)fst01129772
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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| ISBN |
9781620973752 (hardcover) |
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1620973758 (hardcover) |
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