TY  - BOOK
AU  - HERMISTON Roger
TI  - Greatest traitor: the secret lives of agent George Blake 
SN  - 9781781310465 (hbk.) :
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Aurum Press, 
KW  - SPIES
KW  - SOVIET UNION
KW  - BIOGRAPHY
KW  - ESPIONAGE, SOVIET
KW  - GREAT  BRITAIN
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL &​ MILITARY. On 3 May 1961, after a trial conducted largely in secret, a man named George Blake was sentenced to an unprecedented forty-two years in jail. At the time few details of his crimes were made known. By his own confession he was a Soviet spy and rumours later circulated that his actions had endangered British agents, but the reasons for such a severe punishment were never revealed. To the public, Blake was simply the greatest traitor of the Cold War. Yet, as Roger Hermiston reveals in this thrilling new biography, his story touches not only the depths of treachery, but also the heights of heroism. In WWII the teenage Blake performed sterling deeds for the Dutch resistance, before making a dramatic bid for freedom across Nazi-occupied Europe. Later recruited by British Intelligence, he quickly earned an exemplary reputation and was entrusted with building up the Service's networks behind the Iron Curtain
ER  -