Kim Philby csendes háborúja.
Budapest: Kossuth, 1969. First edition. In original paper. 222 [2] p. Fine condition.
Cold War publication on Kim Philby, inscribed by the agent to a senior Hungarian state security official.
Hungarian account of the career of Kim Philby, issued within the Cold War context and reflecting the contemporary Eastern Bloc perspective on intelligence and espionage.
The present copy bears a presentation inscription from Philby to Lajos Karasz, a Hungarian lieutenant general and deputy minister, who in 1978 served as the minister of the interior’s deputy for state security. The association situates the book directly within the sphere of high-ranking security officials of the period.
Kim Philby (1912–1988) was a Soviet intelligence officer who rose to become a senior member of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), operating for decades as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union in 1963. One of the most significant intelligence figures of the twentieth century, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1946 (later revoked in 1965) and was awarded the Order of Lenin in the same year by the Soviet Union.
Inscriptions by Philby are rare.
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