Russian roulette : a deadly game : how British spies thwarted Lenin's global plot / Giles Milton.
Publication details: London : Sceptre, 2013.Description: xv, 378 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781444737028 (hardback)
- 1444737023 (hardback)
- 327.1241047 23
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 327.124 MIL | Available | 054926 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1917, post-Russian Revolution, an unlikely and eccentric band of British spies are smuggled into newly Soviet Russia to thwart Lenin's plan to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. The spies, under Mansfield Cumming, were the unsung founders of the present-day MI6. The Soviet plot was breathtaking in scale: its aim was to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. It was to bring together two deadly forces - Soviet revolutionaries and Islamic jihadis - to form a highly toxic threat.Unbeknownst to Moscow, a small band of British spies had been secretly smuggled into Russia in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution.