Richard Sorge was a spy, a Russian spy and an extraordinarily successful one. This book offers an account, it has, in many ways, not least in the quality of its writing, never been superseded.[...]
This famous and important book was first published in 1962. With disarming modesty, the author describes it as "a book by an Englishman, in part based on German documents, on the fall of the Fascist government in Italy." It is, but such downbeat words give no idea of the monumental scale of the narr[...]