"The Men in the Trojan Horse" by Kurt Singer, published by The Beacon Press, Boston, 1953. Pre-publication review copy with a publisher's label on the front endpaper.

Original dust jacket with un-clipped '$3.50' on the front flap [a little wear]; hard boards, orange-brown cloth with dark brown colophon on the front board and brown lettering on spine [slightly darkened cloth]; 5.1/2" x 8.1/2"; 258 pages including Index, very good.

"Kurt Singer, a successful popularizer of spies and spying techniques, has made a useful summary of the more successful twentieth century spies and intelligence operations. He devotes considerable space to Lavrenti Beria, whose intelligence net failed him at the most crucial moment; and to Admiral Canaris, whose ability as an in­telligence chief is still undetermined; and deals briefly with Sillitoe of England and Dulles of the United States.

Mr. Singer follows these individual analyses with examples of typical intelligence nets. Three of them are Communist: the Red Orchestra net in Germany; the Orlov- Andersson net in Sweden; and the Sorge net in Japan. The fourth is the despicable Quisling operation in Norway. Some individual agents are then singled out: Otto Katz, the “Grey Eminence”; Gerhart Eisler, the “Whip”; the Grand Mufti; Noel, Field, whose disappearance is still a mystery; Malenkov’s hatchet-man, Wilhelm Zaisser; Tomas Santiago, the “Manilla Boy”; and Godse of the Hindu Mahassabha (Grand Society), who murdered Ghandi...

The book is dramatically written, and makes easy reading about an unpleasant but very essential subject." [excerpts from a review by Richard Gordon McCloskey, 1954]

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