A Spy Named Orphan

A Spy Named Orphan
Author :
Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 352
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1784703575
ISBN-13 : 9781784703578
Rating : 4/5 (578 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Spy Named Orphan by : Roland Philipps

Download or read book A Spy Named Orphan written by Roland Philipps and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy, driven by passionately held beliefs, whose betrayal and defection to Moscow reverberated for decades.Christened 'Orphan? by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was the perfect spy and Britain?s most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge amounts of top-secret intelligence, an international code-breaking operation was rapidly closing in on him. Moments before he was unmasked, Maclean vanished.Drawing on a wealth of previously classified material, Roland Philipps now tells this story for the first time in full. He unravels Maclean?s character and contradictions- a childhood that was simultaneously liberal and austere; a Cambridge education mixing in Communist circles; a polished diplomat with a tendency to wild binges; a marriage complicated by secrets; an accelerated rise through the Foreign Office and, above all, a gift for deception. Taking us back to the golden age of espionage, A Spy Named Orphanreveals the impact of one of the most dangerous and enigmatic Soviet agents of the twentieth century, whose actions heightened the tensions of the Cold War.'This biography first grips and then lingers long in the mind. It is a page-turner of the most empathetic kind? Guardian'Superb? William Boyd


A Spy Named Orphan Related Books

A Spy Named Orphan
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Roland Philipps
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-07 - Publisher: Vintage

GET EBOOK

Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy, driven by passionat
A Spy Named Orphan: The Soviet Agent Who Stole the West's Greatest Secrets
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Roland Philipps
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-01 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

GET EBOOK

"[A] lively and beautifully engineered biography." —John Banville, New York Review of Books Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold W
The Blunt Affair
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Jonathan Bolton
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-15 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

GET EBOOK

The case of the Cambridge spies has long captured the public’s attention, but perhaps never more so than in the wake of Anthony Blunt’s exposure as the four
A Spy Among Friends
Language: en
Pages: 475
Authors: Ben Macintyre
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-29 - Publisher: Crown

GET EBOOK

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Last Cambridge Spy
Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: Chris Smith
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-01 - Publisher: The History Press

GET EBOOK

‘A riveting read.’ – Professor Richard Aldrich ‘The Last Cambridge Spy is not just a fascinating, well-paced book about an interesting individual, but i