Macintyre Ben A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal 9780804136631

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Автор: Macintyre Ben
Название: A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Перевод названия: Бен Макинтайр: Шпион среди друзей
ISBN: 9780804136631
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0804136637
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 384
Вес: 0.57 кг.
Дата издания: 29.07.2014
Язык: English
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Master storyteller Ben Macintyres most ambitious work to date offers a powerful new angle on the 20th centurys greatest spy story

Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britains counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War--while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philbys best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world.
But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscow--and not just Elliotts words, for Philby had made another powerful friend in America: James Jesus Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton and Elliotts unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives to their doom. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies to protect his cover, his two friends never abandoned him--until it was too late. The stunning truth of his betrayal would have devastating consequences on the two men who thought they knew him best, and on the intelligence services he left crippled in his wake.
Told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files, A Spy Among Friends is Ben Macintyres best book yet, a high-water mark in Cold War history telling.

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