On 2010-03-05 B. Marshall, London, UK wrote: The book has thirteen chapters and the first ten are painfully boring. The last three chapters, although somewhat interesting, lack significant detail to ever recover from the three and a half hours of your life you just waisted. Philby has much more to say about every day office politics than anything about espionage. If I was writing a book and had nothing to say this is the book I would write. At the end there is a four page chronology on Philby´s life. Take two minutes in the book store and read the chronology and you will get more out of it than the 202 pages that came before it. The best part will be putting it back on the shelf and moving on to something more interesting. . And summed up by saying Philby has NOTHING to say. Currently My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy has an overall rating of 6 over 10.
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Phillip Knightly claimed In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.A.R. “Kim” Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as MI6’s liaison with the CIA and the FBI, betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians, fatally compromising covert actions to roll back the Iron Curtain in the early years of the Cold War.Written from Moscow in 1967, My Silent War shook the world and introduced a new archetype in fiction: the unrepentant spy. It inspired John le Carré’s Smiley novels and the later espionage novels of Graham Greene. Kim Philby was history’s most successful spy. He was also an exceptional writer who gave us the great iconic story of the Cold War and revolutionized, in the process, the art of espionage writing.
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