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Binding: HardcoverEAN: 9780091796211 ISBN: 0091796210 Label: Hutchinson Manufacturer: Hutchinson Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: May 01, 2008 Publisher: Hutchinson Studio: Hutchinson Related Items:
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 Rating: - BrilliantThis is one of the best books that i have read in a long time! Well written and reasearched i was sorry when i came to the last page! It's a pity that there is not more of these men around today.Proper heroes and not the paper ones that the press tell us about today ! Rating: - RalphWhat an excellent read. How are the Stars and their actions from this book, not household names ,and not mentioned along with other heroic deeds from this Countries history? This book is well written and well researched, a real 'Boys Own' yarn. Highly recommended. Rating: - "The sort of spy we all wanted to be......."In his introduction, Harry Ferguson (ex-SIS) describes Paul Dukes as 'the sort of spy we all wanted to be' and Operation Kronstadt shows exactly why. Dukes is untrained, inexperienced and being run by idiots in London, but despite all this, he is providing critical intelligence on Russia at the start of the revolution - only now he's trapped inside. So Mansfield Cumming (the first 'C') arranges a Royal Navy rescue mission to get him out, under the command of Gus Agar. This is the absolutely true story of Dukes and Agar - and of the suicidal raid on Kronstadt Harbour. If you like history or spy novels or war stories or just well written books, get it - it's a totally brilliant read! Rating: - An absolute crackerHarry Ferguson just gets better and better. His books "Kilo 17" and "Lima 3", about his own experiences fighting drug-smugglers, were an exciting read, and the TV series and book "Spy" in which as an ex-MI6 officer he taught members of the public spying techniques, were also very interesting, but his latest book, "Operation Kronstadt" is in a different class. It is an absolute cracker. It tells the true story from the early history of MI6 of an attempt to rescue a British agent trapped in Russia in 1919 with vital information during the revolution. The phrase "truth is stranger than fiction" might have been coined for the agent's nail-biting adventures evading the Cheka, the dreaded secret police. But the mission became even more important when an opportunity arose to attack Russian ships near the strongly defended fortress of Kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland. This part reads like a more modern version of Patrick O'Brien's Master and Commander series. It would be a shame to give away any of the twists of this well-researched story, but it is just asking to be made into a really exciting film.  Try searching the Internet for "Operation Kronstadt" or Ebay for "Operation Kronstadt". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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