- Cold War, Spies, Intelligence service, Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvenno bezopasnosti
Traces the story of Russian intelligence operative Oleg Gordievsky, revealing how his secret work as an undercover MI6 informant helped hasten the end of the Cold War.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Ben Macintyre, Efrén del Valle
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Signal, Planeta Publishing, Viking
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Dutch, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781101904190
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Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre is a British author, historian, reviewer and columnist writing for The Times newspaper. His columns range from current affairs to historical controversies. - Wikipedia
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