My Silent War

by Kim Philby

British traitor Philby wrote this Cold War memoir in 1967 in Moscow, where he had been granted asylum several years earlier. Philby tells how he was recruited as a Soviet double-agent, how he rose up the ranks in British intelligence, and how, in the '40s and '50s, he passed British and American secrets to the Soviets. Philby was the leader of the Cambridge Five spy ring, which also included Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt.

Available editions of My Silent War

	9780375759833, Paperback, Modern Library, 2002 $5.90 (Good ) Other copies of 9780375759833

	9780345343215, Paperback, Ballantine Books, 1983 $21.00 () Other copies of 9780345343215

	9780586028605, Paperback, Academy Chicago Pub, 1980 $2.04 (Used, Very Good) Other copies of 9780586028605

	9780261631373, Book, MacGibbon & Kee, 1968 $14.50 (Very Good) Other copies of 9780261631373

Publisher Notes

In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.A.R. “Kim” Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as MI6’s liaison with the CIA and the FBI, betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians, fatally compromising covert actions to roll back the Iron Curtain in the early years of the Cold War.

Written from Moscow in 1967, My Silent War shook the world and introduced a new archetype in fiction: the unrepentant spy. It inspired John le Carré’s Smiley novels and the later espionage novels of Graham Greene. Kim Philby was history’s most successful spy. He was also an exceptional writer who gave us the great iconic story of the Cold War and revolutionized, in the process, the art of espionage writing.

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