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Operation Kronstadt : the true story of honor, espionage, and the rescue of Britain's greatest spy, The Man with a Hundred Faces / Harry Ferguson.

Ferguson, Harry. (Author).

Summary:

A former MI6 officer and undercover agent describes the true story of a daring naval rescue attempt in 1919 to save a British agent trapped in Russia during the power struggle between the former Tsarists and Bolsheviks.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781590202296
  • Physical Description: xiv, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Overlook Press, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2008.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-350) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1 Man with the Punch-like Chin 8 -- 2 Secret that `C' couldn't tell 18 -- 3 Froggy chooses Sinbad 26 -- 4 Very special measures 45 -- 5 Peter Sokolov 72 -- 6 Zorinsky Enigma 85 -- 7 Commandant of Terrioki 108 -- 8 Melnikov's Marvellous Uncle 133 -- 9 Too late the hero 153 -- 10 Failure to communicate 180 -- 11 Gefter 210 -- 12 Kronstadt Raid 224 -- 13 Lucky Number Thirteen 257 -- 14 Run for home 264 -- 15 Boat they couldn't sink 276.
Subject: Dukes, Paul, 1889-1967.
Agar, Augustus, 1890-1968.
Intelligence service > Great Britain > History.
Espionage, British > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > History > Revolution, 1917-1921.

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