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COOKRIDGE, E. H.: : THE THIRD MAN - The truth about 'Kim' Philby, double agent

LONDON.ARTHUR BAKER LIMITED,1968.

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,black background to front panel+spine of dw/dj with capitalised red- lettered part title within a white background circle and other red-lettered and capitalised white lettering to part of sub-title and capitalised,white-lettered authot name,faded red-lettered title,bright white-lettered author name and white lettered publisher colophon on spine/backstrip,rear panel of dw/dj with white background and several critics' black-lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present - but miniscule chipping at head+ foot of spine/backstrip.Top edges coloured reddish-pink with some mottled bleaching spots,fore-edges with minimal,faint foxing/ spotting; contents,text body surprisingly and exceptionally bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread - other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, generally sharp-cornered - exception of top,rear corner minimally bumped with tiny creases - textured black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers with minimal,faint off-setting from dw/dj inner flaps to the corresponding,facing free endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,x-xipp+1-283pp [paginated] includes a Preface and Acknowledgements,.15 chapters,8pp of contemporary b/w photographs in 4 blocks of 2pp apiece,between pp84/5,pp11617, pp180/81,and pp212/13 respectively,appendices I+II,Notes; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,separate contents+illustrations lists/ tables. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable,and even internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 55 year-old age. It is only the exterior faults that prevents a slightly higher grading for the book.Despite them,it really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness and for shelf display. The author's extensive biography of Harold "Kim" Philby,double-agent,who infiltrated the British Secret Intelligence Service - and who at one stage was tipped to become its chief,until he was exposed in 1963 and fled to Russia. E. H. Cookridge,an international authority on espionage,a former secret agent and author of several best-sellers including 'INSIDE SOE.', knew,Kim Philby over a period of thirty-three years.In this book he provides the first complete dossier on Philby's fantastic double life. The author traces Philby's career from his undergraduate days at Cambridge to his final flight to the Soviet Union in 1963.He describes in detail Philby's association as a young man woith his Cambridge contemporaries,Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean - an association which was later to inflict grievious harm upon the defence of the Western World.Cookridge describes Philby's activities during the brutal Dolfuss coup d'etet in Vienna in 1934 where Philby fought in the streets and in the sewers and carried messages between Socialist and Communist workers and their exiled leaders in Czechoslovakia.In 1937 Philby was in Spain reporting the Civil War on the Nationalist side,posing as a Fascist and being decorated by General Franco.During WW2 he was enlisted first into SOE and then transferred to SIS - the Secret Intelligence Service,popularly known as MI6.Whilst all the time secretly reporting to his Soviet masters,he became a leading member of the British Secret Service,assigned after the war to head a section concerned with espionage and counter espionage against the Soviet Union.In 1949 Philby was appointed First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington where he acted as link-man to General Bedell Smith and Alan Dulles of the CIA.It was not until 1951,when British counter-intelligence had the activities of the diplomats Burgess and Maclean under surveillance,that suspicion was thrown on Philby himself as the possible 'third man' who facilitated their escape.He was recalled from Washington but continued to be employed as a British agent in the Middle East until,in 1963,he himself ws forced to flee to Russia to avoid arrest. In 'The Third Man' the author gives a vivid account of the operations of this extraordinarily successful double-agent,who outdid all such notorious modern spies as Sorge,Abel,Sobel, Lonsdale and Blake.In this sensational book Cookridge pulls no punches and protects none of the men whose amazing dereliction from duty made it possible for the Siviet Union to infiltrate a dangerous agent into the very heart of the British Secret Service. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! 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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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