The greatest traitor : the secret lives of Agent George Blake

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The greatest traitor : the secret lives of Agent George Blake

Title remainder

the secret lives of Agent George Blake

Statement of responsibility

Roger Hermiston

Creator

• Hermiston, Roger

Author

• Hermiston, Roger

Subject

• Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain
• trueSoviet Union -- History
• Biographies
• Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
• Blake, George, 1922-

Genre

• trueBiographies

Language

eng

Summary

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. In WWII the teenage Blake performed sterling deeds for the Dutch resistance, before making a dramatic bid for freedom across Nazi-occupied Europe. Later recruited by British Intelligence, he quickly earned an exemplary reputation and was entrusted with building up the Service's networks behind the Iron Curtain

Dewey number

B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction