Category: Biography

Copyright/published Year: 2002 by Modern Library

ISBN: 9780375759833

Binding: Paperback

Description: In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: ì that of H.A.R. "Kim" Philby, the ringleader of the legendary ì Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby ì joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head ì of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as MI6's liaison with the CIA ì and the FBI, betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the ì Russians, fatally compromising covert actions to roll back the ì Iron Curtain in the early years of the Cold War.

Written from Moscow in 1967, My Silent War shook the world and ì introduced a new archetype in fiction: the unrepentant spy. It ì inspired John le Carré's Smiley novels and the later espionage ì novels of Graham Greene. Kim Philby was history's most successful ì spy. He was also an exceptional writer who gave us the great ì iconic story of the Cold War and revolutionized, in the process, ì the art of espionage writing.

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