Operation Kronstadt: The Greatest True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain'sGreatest Spy, The Man with a Hundred Faces
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.1241094709041
EAN: 9781590203378
Feature: ISBN13: 9781590203378
ISBN: 1590203372
Label: Overlook TP
Manufacturer: Overlook TP
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2010-08-03
Publisher: Overlook TP
Studio: Overlook TP
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ISBN13: 9781590203378
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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 Bolsheviks¹ 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 ³The Man with a Hundred Faces,² 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 Dukes¹ 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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