Man Without A Face: The Autobiography Of Communism's Greatest Spymaster - Softcover

Wolf, Markus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891620126 ISBN 13: 9781891620126

Publisher: PublicAffairs, 1999

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 1999 Pages: 460 Publisher: PublicAffairs For decades Markus Wolf was known to Western Intelligence Officers only as the man without a face. Now the legendary spymaster has emerged from the shadows to Reveal his remarkable life of secrets . lies. and betrayals as head of the world's most formidable and effective foreign service ever. Wolf was undoubtedly the greatest spymaster of our century. A shadowy Cold War legend who kept his own past locked up as tightly as the state secrets with which he was entrusted. Wolf finally oke his silence in 1997. Man Without a Face is the result. It details all of Wolf's major successes and failures and illuminates the reality of espionage operations as few nonfiction works before it. Wolf tells the real story of Gunter Guillaume. the East German spy who ought down Willy andt. He reveals the truth behind East Germany's in...

About this title

About the Author:

Markus Wolf was the head of East Germany's Foreign Intelligence Service. Born in rural Western Germany in 1923, Wolf fled from the Nazis to the Soviet Union. He came of age in Moscow in the 1940s and was picked out by the Party to be returned to the war-ravaged Germany for its political restructuring. Wolf quickly rose through the ranks of East Germany's foreign intelligence operations. He left the Stasi in 1986, three years before its collapse. He passed away in 2006.

From the Inside Flap:

nating and revealing autobiography, Markus Wolf, East Germany's chief foreign intelligence officer and foremost spymaster of the Eastern Bloc, tells his own dramatic story, a true thriller and a stunning examination of loyalty, betrayal, and the long shadow of history. of photos.

About this edition

• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1891620126
• ISBN 13: 9781891620126
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 460