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092			_aSorge, R. _bM441
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100	1		_aMatthews, Owen, _eauthor. _9241857
245	1	3	_aAn impeccable spy : _bRichard Sorge, Stalin's master agent / _cOwen Matthews.
246	3	0	_aRichard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
264		1	_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bBloomsbury Publishing, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019
300			_aviii, 435 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, portraits ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 405-415) and index.
505	0		_a'From the schoolhouse to the slaughter block' -- Among the revolutionaries -- 'A fanatic riff-raff from a ruined century' -- Shanghai days -- The Manchurian incident -- Have you considered Tokyo? -- The spy ring forms -- At home with the Otts -- Moscow 1935 -- Hanako and Clausen -- Bloodbath in Moscow -- Lyushkov -- Nomonhan -- Ribbentrop-Molotov -- Attack Singapore! -- The butcher of Warsaw -- Barbarossa takes shape -- 'They did not believe us' -- Plan north or plan south? -- Breaking point -- 'The greatest man I have ever met.'
520			_aThe thrilling true story of Richard Sorge - the man John le Carré called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War. Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, Sorge became a fanatical communist - and the Soviet Union's most formidable spy. Like many great spies, Sorge was an effortless seducer, combining charm with ruthless manipulation. He did not have to go undercover to find out closely guarded state secrets - his victims willingly shared them. As a foreign correspondent, he infiltrated and influenced the highest echelons of German, Chinese and Japanese society in the years leading up to and including the Second World War. His intelligence regarding Operation Barbarossa and Japanese intentions not to invade Siberia in 1941 proved pivotal to the Soviet counteroffensive in the Battle of Moscow, which in turn determined the outcome of the war. Never before has Sorge's story been told from the Russian side as well as the German and Japanese. Owen Matthews takes a sweeping historical perspective and draws on a wealth of declassified Soviet archives - along with testimonies from those who knew and worked with Sorge - to rescue the riveting story of the man described by Ian Fleming as 'the most formidable spy in history'.
600	1	0	_aSorge, Richard, _d1895-1944. _948727
650		0	_aSpies _zSoviet Union _vBiography. _9155333
650		0	_aEspionage, Soviet _zJapan _xHistory.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xMilitary intelligence _zJapan.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xSecret service _zSoviet Union. _9213194
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