Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot

Milton, Giles

ISBN 10: 1444737023 / ISBN 13: 9781444737028

Published by Sceptre / Hodder & Stoughton, 2013. first impression,, 2013

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1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xiv,378pp, illustrated, maps, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. a label on front cover corner. ISBN: 1444737023.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot
• Publisher: Sceptre / Hodder & Stoughton, 2013. first impression,
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444737023
• ISBN 13: 9781444737028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II—a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin’s communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes — starting with the British Empire.
Russian Roulette tells the spectacular and harrowing story of the British spies in revolutionary Russia whose mission was to stop Lenin’s red tide from washing across the free world. They were an eccentric cast of characters, led by Mansfield Cumming, a one-legged, monocle-wearing former sea captain, and included novelist W. Somerset Maugham, beloved children’s author Arthur Ransome, and the dashing, ice-cool Sidney Reilly, the legendary Ace of Spies and a model for Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Cumming’s network would pioneer the field of covert action and would one day become MI6.
Living in disguise, constantly switching identities, they infiltrated Soviet commissariats, the Red Army, and Cheka (the feared secret police), and would come within a whisker of assassinating Lenin. As Giles Milton chronicles for the first time, in a sequence of bold exploits that stretched from Moscow to the central Asian city of Tashkent, this unlikely band of agents succeeded in foiling Lenin’s plot for global revolution.

About the Author

Giles Milton is a writer and historian. He is the bestselling author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg, Big Chief Elizabeth, The Riddle and the Knight, White Gold, Samurai William, Paradise Lost and, most recently, Wolfram. His books have been translated into 18 languages. White Gold is currently being piloted as a major Channel 4 series. He has also written two novels and three children's books, two of them illustrated by his wife Alexandra. He lives in South London. Find out more about Giles and his books by visiting the following links. Personal website: www.gilesmilton.com Wikipedia: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Milton Twitter: www.twitter.com/survivehistory Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Giles-Milton-Writer/121068034610842