The Last of the Cold War Spies, The Life of Michael Straight, The Only American in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring
by [Straight, Michael]. Roland Perry
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine copy/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0306814285
- ISBN 13
- 9780306814280
- Seller
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About This Item
Cambridge: Da Capo Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xii, 396. Illustrated: (4) pp. of plates. Notes. Checklist. Index. Michael Straight attended Cambridge University in the 1930s where he was drawn into the circle of friends who later became famous as Soviet spies. He passed information to them and apparently was far more involved that has been know previously, although he was suspected and his name surfaced in many of the books about Philby, Blunt, Burgess and the others.
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- Bookseller
- The Typographeum Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000441
- Title
- The Last of the Cold War Spies, The Life of Michael Straight, The Only American in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring
- Author
- [Straight, Michael]. Roland Perry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0306814285
- ISBN 13
- 9780306814280
- Publisher
- Da Capo Books
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- Espionage;
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