Until this book was published in 1988, Philby was an enigma. Then a few weeks before his death he gave a number of exclusive interviews to author Philip Knightley. Fully updated throughout with new material.[...]
A story of heroism and collusion, censorship and suppression, myth-making and propaganda. Now brought up to date with new material on the war in Afghanistan. Australian author.[...]
"The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. In his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the appalling conditions of the Crimean War in the "Times[...]
Intelligence is very big business with a very rich history, told here by a master historian. The big question is, 'Did the actions of spies such as Sorge, Donovan or Angleton and their masters make any difference at all in the course of history?'[...]
Foreword by Phillip Knightley Kim Philby, the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring, was the Cold War's most infamous traitor. A Soviet spy at the heart of British intelligence, at one point heading up the section tasked with rooting out Russian spies within MI6, he betrayed hundreds of Brit[...]