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Phillip Knightley (1929–2016)

Auteur de Le correspondant de guerre de la Crimée au Vietnam

13+ oeuvres 1,492 utilisateurs 18 critiques

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Phillip Knightley was an award-winning investigative journalist with the Sunday Times for twenty years

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With lawrence in arabia (1924) — Introduction, quelques éditions395 exemplaires
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy (1968) — Introduction, quelques éditions350 exemplaires
Granta 57: India! The Golden Jubilee (1997) — Contributeur — 202 exemplaires
Granta 53: News (1996) — Contributeur — 124 exemplaires
The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby (1994) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions60 exemplaires

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Nom légal
Knightley, Philip George
Date de naissance
1929-01-23
Date de décès
2016-12-07
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Australia
Lieu de naissance
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lieu du décès
London, England, UK
Professions
journalist
professor
Organisations
University of Lincoln

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In the early 1950s, two British intelligence agents defected to the Soviet Union, throwing suspicion on one of Britain's highest-placed intelligence officers, Kim Philby, whom many thought to have warned the defectors of their imminent arrest. But Philby was cleared, and it was not until several years later that he himself defected and the world learned the scope o the greatest disaster and embarrassment in the history of British national intelligence. Philby and the two other agents (Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean) had been fellow students at Cambridge and had there been recruited by the Soviets. Though each man was bedeviled by alcoholism, they all three rose to positions of prominence in the intelligence service, and all three cost England and the United States badly in terms of information and the lives of agents. This book, written not long after Philby's defection, was published before the full extent of the double-agent ring was known and the British government further humiliated. But it covers the lives of all three spies most effectively, and the story is richly detailed (despite the difficulties of researching the secret world of intelligence and counter-intelligence). This is a fascinating read.… (plus d'informations)
 
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jumblejim | 1 autre critique | Aug 26, 2023 |
DJ has some issues and age wear, but VG cond. overall - scarce
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JMS62 | Apr 4, 2023 |
Livro escrito em meados dos anos 80, ainda durante a guerra-fria, está claramente desactualizado e, à luz de conhecimentos adquiridos após a data da sua escrita, por vezes errado. Além disso, também geograficamente é um livro localizado no mundo anglófono, entre Londres e Washington. Os russos/soviéticos que tão importantes são nesta narrativa, são sempre tratados como personagens secundárias pois apenas no final do livro o autor põe os seus pés em Moscovo, ainda que brevemente.
Tem passagens interessantes e originais sobre a criação e desenvolvimentos das principais agências a nível mundial e sobre a espionagem anterior à guerra-fria. No entanto, não faz qualquer referência a Garbo apesar de desenvolver a actividade do seu contemporâneo Sorge. Aborda pormenorizadamente os desertores soviéticos Golytsin, Penkovsky e Fedora, mas não refere Gordievsky nem o agente de penetração do KGB na CIA, Aldrich Ames.
A afirmação do autor de que “os serviços de informações se transformaram em fontes de poder na nossa sociedade, clubes secretos para a elite e os privilegiados” pode ser verdade para os EUA e para a Rússia, mas não é verdade para os outros países do mundo, nem para o Reino Unido nem para a China.
… (plus d'informations)
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CMBras | Apr 13, 2021 |

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Œuvres
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Membres
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Popularité
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Évaluation
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Critiques
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ISBN
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