Philby The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation

PHILBY

The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation

Bruce Page, David Leitch and Philip Knightley

Andre Deutsch

LONDON

1968

DESCRIPTION

First Edition

Book measures 225mm x 145mm approximately.

Hardback book with dust jacket. Series of interesting photo images throughout.

Introduction by John Le Carré.

CONDITION

In very good condition generally. The book is strong and tight. The dust jacket is in good condition, with only a few minor creases and bumps to the top edges. The jacket upper spine has been sun-faded. Internally the pages are very clean with occasional spot marks to the page edges.

INTERESTING

The true story of Kim Philby is so fantastic that a spy-novelist would scarcely dare to invent it. A Soviet agent from his early twenties, his penetration of the British secret service was so effective that in 1944 he became the director of its counter-Soviet department, a feat of duplicity unequalled in the annals of espionage. He then became the link-man between the British service and the American Central Intelligence Agency, from which position he was able to betray every important secret of Western intelligence.

This book tells for the first time in detail how Philby penetrated the British secret service and rose to be its favourite son; of the operations he betrayed and the agents he sent to their deaths; how his cover way broken when he had to protect Donald Maclean, whose atomic espionage is here exposed for the first time in detail, and the amazing sequel in which Philby was secretly 'tried', cleared, and re-employed by the secret service.