Spy Who Disappeared, The

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: A Gollancz Paperback, 1991

057505087X / 9780575050877

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Title Page Missing; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Diary of a Secret Mission to Russian Central Asia in 1918. INTRODUCTION AND EPILOGUE BY: Peter Hopkirk. CONTENTS: Introduction by Peter Hopkirk; The Land that Allah Forgot; The Holy City; Trans-Caspian Trader; Cotton Conspiracy; The Malleson Mission; Battle for Baku; From the Frying Pan into the Fire; The Committee and the Commissars; H.M. Representative in Askhabad; The Turkman Frankenstein; Predlozheniya and Izlozheniya; Alarms and Excursions; Scraping the Barrel; Turbulent Turkmans; Debacle; Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. SYNOPSIS: Seventy years ago, to escape the vengeance of the Bolshevik death squads, a British intelligence officer, Captain Reginald Teague-Jones, was forced to change his name and disappear. For, having been sent on a secret mission to Transcaucasia, h found himself accused of one of the most notorious incidents of the war between Bolsheviks, "White Russians" and Turks--the murder of the 26 Baku Commissars. Bolshevik heroes, they included one of Lenin's closest friends. Until recently, it was assumed that Teague-Jones was long dead, but after the death in 1988 of a man named Ronald Sinclair, the truth emerged at last: Ronald Sinclair was Teague-Jones; he had lived into his hundredth year and not even his closest friends had had an inkling of who he really was. The Spy Who Disappeared is the story of his extraordinary mission and its tragic climax. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Titel
Spy Who Disappeared, The
Autor
Teague-Jones, Reginald alias Sinclair, Ronald
Verlag
A Gollancz Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr
1991
Zustand
Fair
Einband
Trade Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
057505087X
ISBN-13
9780575050877
Illustrator
Veronica Bailey
Verkäuferkataloge
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