ISBN 978–1–84954–278–4
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THE KREMLIN’S GEORDIE SPY
VIN ARTHEY
An extraordinary true-life tale of the Cold War that could have come straight from the pen of John le Carré
In February 1962, Gary Powers, the American pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace, was released in exchange for one of the Russians’ own, KGB colonel Rudolf Abel. Colonel Abel was remarkable, not least because he was born plain Willie Fisher in Newcastle upon Tyne, his revolutionary parents having fled Tsarist Russia in 1901.
Leaving England for the newly formed Soviet Union in 1921, Willie began a career as a spy. He was sent to New York, where he ran the network that included the notorious atom spies Julius Rosenberg and Ted Hall. In 1957 he was arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison, but the USSR’s regard for Willie’s talents was proven when they insisted on swapping him for the stricken Powers.
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CODENAME RYGOR
MIECZYSŁAW ZYGFRYD SŁOWIKOWSKI
The spy behind the Allied victory in North Africa
Major General Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski, codenamed Rygor, was a Polish intelligence officer who helped establish Allied spy networks in occupied France and, later, in German-occupied North Africa.
In July 1941, Słowikowski was transferred to Algiers, where he set up and ran one of the war’s most successful intelligence operations, providing the vast bulk of the intelligence for Operation Torch, the 1942 Allied invasion of North Africa. Although not as well known as the later operations in France and Italy, Operation Torch provided a turning point in the war against the Axis powers. Słowikowski lit the fuse.
His immense bravery and effort were later rewarded with the American Legion of Merit and the Order of the British Empire. This is his extraordinary story.
352pp Paperback, £9.99
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SIX: A HISTORY OF BRITAIN’S SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
MICHAEL SMITH
PART 1: MURDER AND MAYHEM 1909–1939
A major two-part unauthorised history of Britain’s external intelligence community
The story begins with the creation of the Secret Service Bureau in 1909, charged with controlling intelligence within Britain and overseas. SIX goes on to tell the complete story of the service’s birth and early years. It shows the development of ‘tradecraft’ and the great personal risk officers and their agents took, far from home and unprotected. It also tells of the violence sometimes meted out in the name of king and country. This first volume takes us up to the eve of the Second World War, using hundreds of previously unreleased files and interviews with key players. The second part, published in 2011, will tell the story from the outbreak of the war to the present.
480pp Hardback, £19.99
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