The Philby Files

Borovik. Genrikh,

ISBN 10: 0316910155 / ISBN 13: 9780316910156

Published by Little, Brown and Company, London, 1994

About this Item

xvii pp 382. An introduction by Phillip Knightly. Monochrome Photographs. The top rear of the dust wrapper has a 1cm tear. Size: 64mo - up to 3" tall. Seller Inventory # MIL660

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Philby Files

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, London

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First UK Edition.

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Synopsis:

In 1963, former British secret service agent Kim Philby fled Beirut for Moscow just steps away from a CIA hit team, and closed the door on the Soviet Union's most successful penetration of Western intelligence. Philby's exploits as a Soviet mole - he served as MI6's chief liason with the CIA in Washington, and was the lynchpin of the notorious Cambridge spy ring - have inspired countless spy novelists, from John le Carre to Len Deighton. Russian journalist Genrikh Borovik, drawing on a trove of new information culled from the KGB's Philby files and from Philby himself, at last answers the lingering questions about the Soviet master spy. From his recruitment at Cambridge to his involvement in a plot to assassinate Franco, from the KGB's doubts about his loyalty to the details of espionage tradecraft, here is the last word on Philby.