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 | BOYLE, ANDREW. The Fourth Man: The Definitive Account of Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Donald Maclean and Who Recruited Them to Spy for Russia. New York: Dial Press 1979. 1st American Edition. Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 504 pages. Notes, index. red endpapers. Description: A detailed account of the origins and motives of three of the most infamous traitors in British history. The Fourth Man examines the political climate of Britain in the 1930s, still recovering from the virtual elimination of a generation of leaders in WWI and the aftershocks of the General Strike and the Depression, which led to three young men becoming converts to communism while still university students. Their Soviet controllers quickly took them over from their original recruiters and shaped the careers of the three deep cover agents. Eventually the demands of their double lives intensified, their private lives began to disintegrate, and their behavior became increasingly more bizarre. And yet no one in authority asked the right questions or responded to warning signs. BINDING/CONDITION: black cloth with red spine text; a Good book; the dust jacket has a chip to the front panel about the size of a quarter, otherwise a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B000OMP4XW USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 | £UK 4.25 | JP¥ 618] Book number: 055666 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. | |
 | JOHNSON, THOMAS M. Our Secret War: True American Spy Stories, 1917-1919. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill Company 1929. Hardbound 8vo (about 8 inches tall) 340 pages. Description: By the author of Without Censor. This has a small, pasted-in Bobbs-Merrill ''Compliments of'' card, signed by L W Harrison. BINDING/CONDITION: orange cloth with blue text and decoration; a stain to the cloth on the front board about the size of a fifty-cent piece; bookplate, owner's name also written in separately. there are no other markings in the book; a Good+ book, the jacket spine is faded, otherwise a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B0006AKQIU USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 055095 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. | |
 | WEINSTEIN, ALLEN AND ALEXANDER VASSILIEV. The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America -- The Stalin Era. New York: Random House 1999. 4th Printing. Hardbound 8vo (9.5 inches tall) 402 pages. Index, bibliography, notes. Description: Includes a section of b&w photo plates. The authors were granted access to thousands of classified Soviet intelligence dispatches that document the KGB's success in acquiring valuable atomic, military, and diplomatic secrets. Reconstructed from Moscow's messages to its operatives and reports from Soviet recruits in America, this describes many previously unknown personal tales: struggles for control among contending Soviet operatives and American agents, love affairs, business ventures, defections, and plotted or actual murders. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; the top corners are bumped, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-679-45724-0 USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 054524 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. |
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