Operation Kronstadt: The Greatest True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescueof Britain'sGreatest Spy, The Man with a Hundred Faces Paperback - 2010
by Ferguson, Harry
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- Paperback
In May 1919, mere months after the guns of World War I had fallen silent, the Russian Revolution was roaring and the Bolsheviksď Red Army had begun to take the upper hand against the U.S. and British-backed White Army. Paul DukesÕa 30-year-old concert pianist, master of disguise dubbed ćThe Man with a Hundred Faces,Ć and the only English spy in RussiaÕwas cut off in Petrograd after infiltrating the Bolshevik Government and stealing top-secret information.
With the government in London desperately in need of the documents in Dukesď possession and the Bolshevik secret police closing in, a seemingly suicidal plan was hatched to rescue Dukes. 29-year-old naval lieutenant Gus Agar and his handpicked team of seven men boarded plywood boatsÕthe fastest naval vessels in existence, most armed with only two machine guns and a single torpedo. They set out for the island fortress of Kronstadt, the most well-defended naval target in Russian, and into the jaws of the Soviet police.
Written by a former MI6 officer in the tradition of Agent Zigzag, Operation Kronstadt is an extraordinarily gripping non-fiction thriller.
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- Title Operation Kronstadt: The Greatest True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescueof Britain'sGreatest Spy, The Man with a Hundred Faces
- Author Ferguson, Harry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harry N. Abrams, New York
- Date 2010-08-03
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1590203372.G
- ISBN 9781590203378 / 1590203372
- Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 1 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Spies - Great Britain, Soviet Union - History - Revolution,
- Dewey Decimal Code 327.124
