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Rare and modern books

Draitser Emil

Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative, The True Life of Dmitri Bystrolyotov

Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2011b,

20.00 €

Pali s.r.l. Libreria

(Roma, Italy)
Closed until Nov. 29, 2024.

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Details

Author
Draitser Emil
Publishers
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2011b
Keyword
Russia
Cover description
As New
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
As New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

8vo, 448pp. Relates the life of a top Soviet spy, who seduced women to obtain diplomatic pouches, risked his life to steal military secrets and summoned physical courage to cross the Sahara Desert and the jungles of the Congo, only to be tortured by the Stalin regime, forced to falsely confess to selling out and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in the Gulag.