Bibliograph

The happy traitor, spies, lies and exile in Russia : the extraordinary story of George Blake, Simon Kuper

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The happy traitor, spies, lies and exile in Russia : the extraordinary story of George Blake, Simon Kuper

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The happy traitor

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Simon Kuper

Sub title

spies, lies and exile in Russia : the extraordinary story of George Blake

Summary

George Blake was a spy with Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union. He became a communist and decided to work for the MGB while a prisoner during the Korean War. Discovered in 1961 and sentenced to 42 years in prison, he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London in 1966 and fled to the Soviet Union. He was not one of the Cambridge Five spies, although he associated with Donald Maclean and Kim Philby after reaching the Soviet Union

Target audience

adult

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