Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B.Masterspy

Phillip Knightley

ISBN 10: 0233983600 / ISBN 13: 9780233983608

Published by Andre Deutsch Ltd, London England, 1988

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Scarce First Edition Hardcover price clipped Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B.Masterspy.Philby, the agent, double agent, traitor, enigma revealed all to Knightley just before his death. Few knew the real man behind the impenetrable facade that for years fooled British Intelligence, the CIA and the FBI. After he defected to Russia in 1963, he maintained a code of silence for 25 years - until a few weeks before his death. He invited journalist Phillip Knightley to his Moscow apartment and in six days of conversation he bared his soul as never before. he told of his childhood, the influence of his extraordinary father and the events that lead him inexorably to turn traitor. He tells the story before and after defection and gives his veiws on everything form loyalty and patriotism to pop music and Margaret Thatcher. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B.Masterspy
• Publisher: Andre Deutsch Ltd, London England
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0233983600
• ISBN 13: 9780233983608
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military History and War

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Philby, the agent, double agent, traitor, enigma revealed all to Knightley just before his death. Few knew the real man behind the impenetrable facade that for years fooled British Intelligence, the CIA and the FBI. After he defected to Russia in 1963, he maintained a code of silence for 25 years - until a few weeks before his death. He invited journalist Phillip Knightley to his Moscow apartment and in six days of conversation he bared his soul as never before. he told of his childhood, the influence of his extraordinary father and the events that lead him inexorably to turn traitor. He tells the story before and after defection and gives his veiws on everything form loyalty and patriotism to pop music and Margaret Thatcher.