-About this book

In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H. A. R. « Kim » Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies.
A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as M16’s liaison with the CIA and the FBI, betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians, fatally compromising covert actions to roll back the Iron Curtain in the early years of the Cold War.
Written from Moscow in 1967, My Silent War shook the world and introduced a new archetype in fiction: the unrepentant spy. It inspired John Le Carre’s Smiley novels and the later espionage novels of Graham Greene. Kim Philby was history’s most successful spy. He was also an exceptional writer who gave us the great iconic story of the Cold War and revolutionized, in the process, the art of espionage writing.

-Contents

INTRODUCTION by Phillip Knightley

FOREWORD by Graham Greene

AUTHOR’S NOTE

INTRODUCTION

CURTAIN RAISER: A WHIFF OF THE FIRING SQUAD

1. TAKEN ON BY THE SECRET SERVICE
2. IN AND OUT OF SOE

III. “AN OLD-ESTABLISHED RACKET”—SIS

1. BRITISH AND ALLIED INTELLIGENCE COMPLEX
2. ON THE UP AND UP
3. THE FULFILMENT

VII. FROM WAR TO PEACE

VIII. THE VOLKOV CASE

1. THE TERRIBLE TURK
2. THE LION’S DEN
3. THE CLOUDBURST

XII. ORDEAL

XIII. THE CLOUDS PART

EPILOGUE: HOME AND DRY

CHRONOLOGY

INDEX

-Caractéristiques

Date de parution:24 septembre 2002

Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Modern Library; Reprint édition

Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais

NB.de pages ‏ : ‎ 256 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0375759832

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0375759833

Poids de l’article ‏ : ‎ 215 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.13 x 1.4 x 20.35 cm