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Treason in the Blood:
H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century
by
Anthony Cave Brown
Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, MA. 1994. 677 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing.
DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bookplate present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
Two decades ago, Brown burst into the club of espionage historians with his popular Bodyguard of Lies, which unveiled the Allies' Ultra secret in World War II. Here he examines the career of the infamous British turncoat whom the Soviets buried with state honors. (To set the social and psychological context, Brown also folds in the life of Philby p{?}ere, H. St. John. Kim, the younger blood, indisputably caused the deaths of hundreds of people, heinous enough, but mystery still envelops the magnitude of the damage he inflicted and the extent to which, if at all, he was protected from discovery by superiors in Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), or even by the CIA's James Angleton. While the SIS won't declassify its Philby file until 2025, Brown avails himself of the KGB's records and retired personnel still living who worked with S{?}ohnchen, their code name for their ace mole. His thorough research narrates Philby's recruitment in 1934 by Soviet agents and how they groomed him to penetrate the SIS, which occurred in 1940. The next 10 years, furnishing the bulk of this book, are crowded with Philby's wartime operations and concomitant rise through the ranks to a height (as chief of counterintelligence) that established his candidacy to become "C"--chief of the service. Unfortunately for him and the Soviets, his usefulness ended with the sensational defection in 1951 of comrade moles Burgess and MacLean--or did it? Brown is so skilled at synthesizing the minutiae of this case that spy catchers skulking about the stacks will inevitably be captivated by the story's outstanding enigmas
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| quarto | 4º or 4to | 4 | 8 | 9½ × 12 | 24 × 30.5 | |
| octavo | 8º or 8vo | 8 | 16 | 6 × 9 | 15 × 23 | |
| duodecimo or twelvemo | 12º or 12mo | 12 | 24 | 5 × 7⅜ | 12.5 × 19 | |
| sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
| octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
| trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
| quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
| sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo | 64º or 64mo | 64 | 128 | 2 × 3 | 5 × 7.5 | |
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