Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B.Masterspy

Name: Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B.Masterspy
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Phillip Knightley
ISBN: 9780330307536

Phillip Knightley

10/11/1989
Pan Books

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B.Masterspy par Phillip Knightley

Résumé

Philby, the agent, double agent, traitor, enigma revealed all to Knightley just before his death. Few knew the real man behind the impenetrable facade that for years fooled British Intelligence, the CIA and the FBI. After he defected to Russia in 1963, he maintained a code of silence for 25 years - until a few weeks before his death. He invited journalist Phillip Knightley to his Moscow apartment and in six days of conversation he bared his soul as never before. he told of his childhood, the influence of his extraordinary father and the events that lead him inexorably to turn traitor. He tells the story before and after defection and gives his veiws on everything form loyalty and patriotism to pop music and Margaret Thatcher.