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An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent

An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent

Matthews, Owen.
Book 2019

The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge and#x2013; the man John le Carré called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War. Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the batt...

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Explore Topics & Themes:
Espionage, Soviet Japan History
Sorge, Richard, 1895-1944
Spies Soviet Union Biography
World War, 1939-1945 Military intelligence Japan
World War, 1939-1945 Secret service Soviet Union
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ISBN:
9781408857786
1408857782
Description:
viii, 435 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Other Title:
Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-415) and index
Contents:
'From the schoolhouse to the slaughter block'
Among the revolutionaries
'A fanatic riff-raff from a ruined century'
Shanghai days
The Manchurian incident
Have you considered Tokyo?
The spy ring forms
At home with the Otts
Moscow 1935
Hanako and Clausen
Bloodbath in Moscow
Lyushkov
Nomonhan
Ribbentrop-Molotov
Attack Singapore!
The butcher of Warsaw
Barbarossa takes shape
'They did not believe us'
Plan north or plan south?
Breaking point
'The greatest man I have ever met.'
Control Number:
2729602
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