Richard Sorge (1895–1944)
Auteur de An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Richard Sorge
Œuvres de Richard Sorge
Richard Sorge : Kundschafter und Kommunist — Associated Name — 1 exemplaire
RICHARD SORGE — Associated Name — 1 exemplaire
Richard Zorge kakim on byl — Honoree — 1 exemplaire
Richard Zorge : stat'i, korrespondencii, recenzii — Honoree — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Sorge, Richard
- Autres noms
- SORGE, Richard
ZORGE, Richard
Зорге, Рихард - Date de naissance
- 1895-10-04
- Date de décès
- 1944-11-07
- Sexe
- male
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Eastern Europe (1)
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 196
- Popularité
- #111,885
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 16
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 2
Anyone who is interested in non-fiction espionage would want to read this book. (I never really understand why people read espionage fiction when they can just as well find great books that are just, if not more exciting because they present the real thing.) For this reader, Sorge was not a particularly likeable character. And yet I found myself rooting for him and very pained at what happened to him. He was a womanizer and yet he inspired great loyalty in at least two of his women: his Russian wife and his Japanese mistress. He was much loved. And he was greatly liked by men. He was charming. He was brilliant. He created a spy network that infiltrated the highest ranks of Japanese and German government.
As Ben Macintyre says, "A superb biography ... Detailed, wry, sympathetic and oddly moving." And that's what surprised me. It really was oddly moving.… (plus d'informations)