Operation kronstadt : the true story of honor, espionage, and the rescue of britain's greatest spythe man with a hundred faces / Harry Ferguson.
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TextPublisher: [S.l.] : Overlook Hardcover, 2009Edition: First American EditionDescription: 368 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 1590202295 (hardcover); 9781590202296 (hardcover)Subject(s): Dukes, Paul, 1889-1967 | Espionage, British | Great Britain | Intelligence service | Soviet UnionDDC classification: 327.1241094709041 LOC classification: UB271.G7Online resources: Amazon.com Summary: In May 1919, mere months after the guns of World War I had fallen silent, the Russian Revolution was roaring and the Bolsheviks� Red Army had begun to take the upper hand against the U.S. and British-backed White Army. Paul Dukes?a 30-year-old concert pianist, master of disguise dubbed �The Man with a Hundred Faces,� and the only English spy in Russia?was cut off in Petrograd after infiltrating the Bolshevik Government and stealing top-secret information. With the government in London desperately in need of the documents in Dukes� possession and the Bolshevik secret police closing in, a seemingly suicidal plan was hatched to rescue Dukes. 29-year-old naval lieutenant Gus Agar and his handpicked team of seven men boarded plywood boats?the fastest naval vessels in existence, most armed with only two machine guns and a single torpedo. They set out for the island fortress of Kronstadt, the most well-defended naval target in Russian, and into the jaws of the Soviet police. Written by a former MI6 officer in the tradition of Agent Zigzag , Operation Kronstadt is an extraordinarily gripping non- fiction thriller.
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In May 1919, mere months after the guns of World War I had fallen silent, the Russian Revolution was roaring and the Bolsheviks� Red Army had begun to take the upper hand against the U.S. and British-backed White Army. Paul Dukes?a 30-year-old concert pianist, master of disguise dubbed �The Man with a Hundred Faces,� and the only English spy in Russia?was cut off in Petrograd after infiltrating the Bolshevik Government and stealing top-secret information. With the government in London desperately in need of the documents in Dukes� possession and the Bolshevik secret police closing in, a seemingly suicidal plan was hatched to rescue Dukes. 29-year-old naval lieutenant Gus Agar and his handpicked team of seven men boarded plywood boats?the fastest naval vessels in existence, most armed with only two machine guns and a single torpedo. They set out for the island fortress of Kronstadt, the most well-defended naval target in Russian, and into the jaws of the Soviet police. Written by a former MI6 officer in the tradition of Agent Zigzag , Operation Kronstadt is an extraordinarily gripping non- fiction thriller.
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