George Alexander Hill

Go Spy the Land (eBook, ePUB)

Being the Adventures of IK8 of the British Secret Service

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Before espionage entered the era of modern technology, there was the age of George Alexander Hill: a time of swashbuckling secret agents, swordsticks and secret assignations with deadly female spies. The daring escapades of some of the first members of Britain’s secret service are revealed in this account of perilous adventure and audacious missions in Imperial and revolutionary Russia. First published in 1932, Hill’s rip-roaring narrative recounts tales of his fellow operatives Arthur Ransome - author of Swallows and Amazons and one of the most effective British spies in Russia - and Sidney Reilly - so-called 'Ace of Spies’ and architect of a thwarted plot to assassinate the Bolshevik leadership. Unavailable for decades, this lost classic offers fascinating portraits of a world unfathomable to those growing up against a backdrop of WikiLeaks and cyber espionage, and of true-life characters whose exploits were so extraordinary that they have entered the realm of legend.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849547086
• Artikelnr.: 40475693

Autorenporträt

George Alexander Hill worked for the British secret service in the Balkans and Russia during the First World War and in the immediate aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. He operated alongside Sidney Reilly, the so-called 'Ace of Spies', collecting intelligence and sabotaging both German and Bolshevik operations. Kim Philby, who worked alongside him during the Second World War described him as 'jolly George Hill' and said he was 'one of the few living Englishmen who had actually put sand in axle boxes'. He died in 1968.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction vii
Chapter I 1
Chapter II 13
Chapter III 18
Chapter IV 29
Chapter V 36
Chapter VI 42
Chapter VII 50
Chapter VIII 56
Chapter IX 68
Chapter X 72
Chapter XI 80
Chapter XII 87
Chapter XIII 93
Chapter XIV 99
Chapter XV 103
Chapter XVI 108
Chapter XVII 116
Chapter XVIII 120
Chapter XIX 128
Chapter XX 136
Chapter XXI 141
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Chapter XXII 158
Chapter XXIII 167
Chapter XXIV 177
Chapter XXV 188
Chapter XXVI 200
Chapter XXVII 219
Chapter XXVIII 234
Chapter XXIX 240
Chapter XXX 248
Chapter XXXI 260
Appendix 263
Index 297