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Brilliant This 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 !
Ralph What 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.
"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... more info
An absolute cracker Harry 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... more info
