Publication date: 1983-06
Price: £25.00
Review Finest Hour / William Heinemann Ltd:
Authors
- Hayden Peake
- Rufina Philby
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-05-29
Dewey code: 320
Price: £9.99
Review The Private Life of Kim Philby / St Ermin's Press:The name of Kim Philby-along with Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and George Blake-is synonymous with treachery: a spy, at the very heart of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), working for the Soviet Union. Plenty has been written about Philby, but very little about the years he spent in Moscow after he was unmasked and fled to his masters. This book redresses that balance. About half of the book is a very personal account by Rufina Philby, his Russian wife for the last 18 years of his life. This tells little about Philby the spy, but a great deal about Philby the man: an Englishman to the last, exiled from his native land, increasingly lonely, unwilling to leave their apartment, utterly devoted to and dependent on his wife, 20 years younger than him, who struggled throughout their marriage to keep him from the bottle. It is a picture of a tormented man, frustrated by the KGB's reluctance to give him serious work to do; and also a remarkable inside view on the everyday difficulties of life in the Soviet Union. Senior KGB operatives were a regular part of their life, even accompanying them on holiday. The book also contains two chapters of the unfinished second volume of Philby's autobiography, a lecture he gave to KGB officers, and an article entitled "Should Agents Confess?" In addition, there is a fascinating personal assessment of Philby by one of closest KGB colleagues. Finally, for readers confused by all the conflicting accounts of Philby's life and work, there is an extremely detailed and valuable critique of the many books, as well as a thoroughly annotated bibliography and chronology. So how did Philby appear in his Moscow days? "To the occasional old friend who saw him, he remained the happy, even helpful, congenial rogue with his seedy charm intact," says editor Hayden Peake. [+]And to Philby's favourite KGB student Michael Bogdanov, who writes the foreword to Rufina Philby's memoir, Philby's hallmark was an essentially British integrity; aged 20 "Philby swore to be true to the ideals of Communism, an oath he never betrayed. " -David V. Barrett.
Publication date: 2005-03
Dewey code: 940.40092
RRP: £8.50
Price: £4.08
Review Haig: The Evolution of a Commander (Military Profiles) / Brassey's US:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-07-19
Dewey code: 327
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.00
Review Holy War, Inc: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden: Inside the Secret World of Osma Bin Laden / Phoenix:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-07-20
RRP: £19.00
Price: £18.00
Review From Beirut to Jerusalem / Islamic Book Trust:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-08
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.72
Review Relentless Pursuit: The Story of the Greatest Hunter and Destroyer of U-boats (Fortunes of War) / Cerberus Publishing Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2005-11-01
Dewey code: 327.12730092
RRP: £14.00
Price: £4.51
Review Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy / Berkley Publishing Group:
Creator: Sir Charles Oman
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-06-05
Dewey code: 930
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.50
Review Adventures with the Connaught Rangers, 1809-1814 / Greenhill Books:
Publication date: 2004-10-31
Dewey code: 909
RRP: £25.00
Price: £3.16
Review Franklin and Winston: A Portrait of a Friendship / Granta Books:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-03-13
Dewey code: 617.954
RRP: £7.12
Price: £4.02
Review Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains / Broadway Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-08-04
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.58
Review Claude and Madeleine: A True Story of War, Espionage and Passion / Picador:
Publication date: 1995-02-01
Dewey code: 940.534384
RRP: £22.50
Price: £18.93
Review Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter: The Past within Me: The Past Within Me / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 1997-03-13
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.92
Review Terminal Velocity: His True Account of Front-line Action in the Falklands War and Beyond / Smith Gryphon:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-08-04
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.38
Review Women Warriors: A History (Warriors) / Brassey's US:
Publication date: 2007-08-31
Dewey code: 327.12730092
RRP: £15.00
Price: £9.57
Review Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin / Potomac Books Inc:
Publication date: 1995-04-10
Dewey code: 940.5317092
Price: £9.99
Review Witness to Evil: Bergen-Belsen, 1945 / ORION:
Authors
- Laurence Brockliss
- John Cardwell
- Michael Moss
Publication date: 2008-07-24
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £19.99
Price: £15.72
Review Nelson's Surgeon: William Beatty, Naval Medicine, and the Battle of Trafalgar / OUP Oxford:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1991-03-07
Dewey code: 821
RRP: £6.99
Price: £31.18
Review Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography / Minerva:
Publication date: 2003-09-25
RRP: £16.99
Price: £0.01
Review Simon Weston: Moving on / Portrait:
Creator: Peter Hoffmann
Publication date: 2000-07-01
Dewey code: 943.086092
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.47
Review The Power of Solitude: My Life in the German Resistance / University of Nebraska Press:
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