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Item Details
| Title:
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FORGOTTEN SPY
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| By: |
NICK BARRATT |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1905825366 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781905825363 |
| Publisher: |
BONNIER BLINK BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
4 June, 2015 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
In this gripping book, Nick Barratt delves into the murky waters of the British and Russian secret service. Tracing the story of his great uncle Ernest Holloway Oldham - known as Arno to his ''friends'' in the Russian secret service. After serving in the British army during WWI, he was drafted into the Communications Department of the UK Foreign Office, where he was charged with delivering encrypted messages to embassies and consulates around the world. Over the course of the next decade or so, he was drawn deeper and deeper into the paranoid world of pre-Cold War espionage and into a double-life that became the darkest of secrets. |
| Synopsis: |
In this remarkable tale about an unremarkable man, Nick Barratt delves into the murky waters of the British and Soviet secret services of the 1920s and 1930s to reveal the shocking story of his great uncle Ernest Holloway Oldham known as ARNO to his Russian handlers . After serving in the British army during World War One, Ernest Holloway Oldham was drafted into the Communications Department of the UK Foreign Office, where he was charged with delivering encrypted messages to embassies and consulates around the world. Over the course of the next decade or so, Ernest was drawn deeper and deeper into the paranoid underworld of preCold War espionage and into a doublelife that became the darkest of secrets. " |
| Illustrations: |
8PP PHOTOGRAPHS |
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Returnable |
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