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020 $a9781620405680 (hardcover)
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100 1 $aMilton, Giles,$eauthor.
245 10 $aRussian roulette :$bhow British spies thwarted Lenin's plot for global revolution /$cGiles Milton.
250 $aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bBloomsbury Press,$c2014.
300 $axiv, 378 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps, portraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aOriginally published: London, England : Sceptre, 2013.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 343-364) and index.
505 0 $aThe villain -- Shooting in the Dark. Murder in the dark ; The Chief ; The perfect spy ; Know thy enemy. -- Masters of Disguise. The man with three names ; A double life ; Mission to Tashkent ; Going underground ; Vanishing trick ; The plot thickens ; A deadly game ; Toxic threat . -- The Professional Spy. Master of disguise ; The lethal M device ; Agent in danger ; Dirty tricks ; Army of God ; Winner takes all.
520 $a"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. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes starting with the British Empire. This book tells the story of the British spies in revolutionary Russia and their mission to stop Lenin's red tide from washing across the free world. They were an eccentric cast of characters, led by Mansfield Cumming, a one-legged, monocle-wearing former sea captain, and included novelist W. 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. Cumming's network would pioneer the field of covert action and would one day become Britain's Military Intelligence 6 (MI -6) -- book jacket.
650 0 $aEspionage, British$zSoviet Union$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$yRevolution, 1917-1921$xInfluence.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$y1917-1945.
600 10 $aLenin, Vladimir Ilʹich,$d1870-1924.
600 10 $aCumming, Mansfield,$cSir,$d1859-1923.
775 08 $iReproduction of (manifestation):$aMilton, Giles.$tRussian roulette.$dLondon : Sceptre, 2013$z9781444737028