Operation Kronstadt The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain's Greatest Spy, the Man With a Hundred Faces
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Paul Dukes - a 30-year-old concert pianist, master of disguise dubbed 'The Man with a Hundred Faces,' 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 Dukesv 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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781590202296 |
Publisher: | Abrams Press |
Imprint: | Abrams |
Pub date: | 09 Jul 2009 |
Edition: | First edition |
DEWEY: | 327.1241094709041 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 368 |
Weight: | 680g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 155mm |
Spine width: | 36mm |