The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century - Softcover

Knightley, Phillip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844130916 ISBN 13: 9781844130917

Verlag: Pimlico, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

'If our leaders manage only one book this year, they could do a lot worse than pick up Phillip Knightley's and discover what imbecilities are committed in the hallowed name of intelligence' - John Le Carré

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Phillip Knightley is the author of ten non-fiction books. He is best known for The Second Oldest Profession and The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker. He has met nearly every spy chief on both sides in the spy Cold War and spent one week with the British traitor Kim Philby in Moscow in 1988 debriefing him just before he died. Knightley has also dined with several heads of the KGB, several chiefs of the British Secret Intelligence Service, the Inspector General of the CIA, and the director of its anti-Soviet operations. For twenty years he was a special correspondent of The Sunday Times and a member of the Insight Team. He has served as a representative in Europe for the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and twice been nominated Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. He spends most of him time writing books and articles for publications around the world. He lives in Britain, India and Australia.

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• Verlag: Pimlico
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1844130916
• ISBN 13: 9781844130917
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528
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