No Other Choice: An Autobiography

When George Blake, a senior officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service, was sentenced in 1961 to 42 years' imprisonment for spying for the KGB, the judge said the had undone most of the work of British intelligence since the war. Blake said nothing. When Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison five and a half year later, the British press said it was the escape of the century and speculated that the KGB must have masterminded. Blake was not around to comment. Now at last, George Blake has decided to speak. He accepts that he is part of the history of the Cold War, and has written here the story of his incredible life.