An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
Matthews, Owen2019
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Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, Sorge became a fanatical communist - and the Soviet Union's most formidable spy. Like many great spies, Sorge was an effortless seducer, combining charm with ruthless manipulation. He did not have to go undercover to find out closely guarded state secrets - his victims willingly shared them. As a foreign correspondent, he infiltrated and influenced the highest echelons of German, Chinese and Japanese society in the years leading up to and including the Second World War.
Main title:
An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent / Owen Matthews.
Author:
Matthews, Owen, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Collation:
viii, 435 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408857786 (hbk)9781408857809 (ebook)
Dewey class:
327.1'2'092B SOR
LC class:
UB271.R92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
337440