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A major new book on the sensational Portland Spy Ring and its famous trial in 1961

About the author

TREVOR BARNES studied espionage in 1920s Britain and the CIA as a history student at the University of Cambridge and as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard. His pioneering research was published in the Historical Journal. Subsequently he worked as a BBC radio and TV senior journalist on programmes including Radio 4's Today and BBC Two's Newsnight, and has written for, among others, The Times, The Observer, The Evening Standard and The Boston Globe. He is the author of three crime novels and also researched and wrote Trial at Torun, a BBC radio play about the trial in Poland of a secret-service murder case. He lives in West London.

Summary

A major new book on the sensational Portland Spy Ring and its famous trial in 1961

Additional text

Winston Churchill once wrote of the world of espionage that 'the actual facts of many cases were in every respect equal to the most fantastic inventions of romance and melodrama'. His words could certainly be applied to the Portland Spy Ring, memorably recounted here by Trevor Barnes. After the CIA told MI5 in 1960 someone was stealing secrets
from the submarine research base at Portland, Dorset, the information led to extraordinary revelations. Unlikely spies were living in suburban Ruislip and, under false identities stolen from the dead, a circle of deep-cover KGB agents was operating in Britain

Product details

• Authors: Trevor Barnes, Barnes Trevor
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.07.2021
• EAN: 9781474609111
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0911-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, True Crime / Espionage, Espionage & secret services, Espionage and secret services, Biography: historical, political and military, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts