Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (825 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1620405709 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He has written several books of nonfiction, including the bestselling Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, and has been translated into fifteen languages worldwide. Giles Milton is a writer and journalist. He is the author of the novel Edward Trencom's Nose. In the course of his researches, he has traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. He
The Beginning of MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) Grey Wolffe Near the end of the First World War, the British government (HMG) created an investigative group called the “Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)” to spy on the Germans. Part of this group was stationed in Russia in order to help the Tsar’s military with information as to German troop m. "Keen As Mustard" That's the jaunty reply of a young British recruit to the Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, when asked if he was up to the challenge of infiltrating Bolshevik Russia. It's an excellent descriptor for nearly every page of this lively, highly entertaining, history of the early years of B. "A Good Read" according to Dr. J. J. Kregarman. Giles Milton covers three partially interrelated subjects: The founding and early history of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (M16), the activity and survival of British secret agents in the USSR after the Bolshevik Revolution; and how Britain foiled Lenin's plot for global revolution. The first
--Gilbert Taylor . Whatever the actual impact the espionage had on political events, Milton’s vivid presentation of them will entertain aficionados of intelligence. Once in place, their adroit evasions of capture by the Bolshevik’s secret police propel Milton’s lively accounts. Its detection underlies the subtitle’s claim that these spies stopped Lenin’s global revolution (in reality, he pulled back in 1921 for several reasons, including the Red Army’s defeat in Poland). Including the most fa
In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II--a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin’s communist revolution was now underway. His goal was a global revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes--starting with the British Empire. Living in disguise, constantly switching identities, they infiltrated Soviet commissariats, the Red Army, and Cheka (the feared secret police), and would come within a whisker of assassinating Lenin. They were an eccentric cast of characters, led by Mansfield Cumming, a one-legged, monocle-wearing former sea captain, and included novelist W. As Giles Milton chronicles for the first time, in a sequence of bold exploits that stretched from Moscow to the central Asian city of Tashkent, this unlikely band of agents succeeded in foiling Lenin’s plot for global revolution.. Somerset Maugham, beloved children’s author Arthur Ransome, and the dashing, ice-cool Sidney Reilly, the legendary Ace of Spies and a model for Ian Fleming’s James Bond. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the tsar. Russian Roulette tells the spectacular and harrowing story of the British spies in revolutionary Russia whose mission was to stop Lenin’s red tide from washing across the free world. Cumming’s network would pioneer the field of covert action and would one day become MI6