The Great Game: Memoirs of the Spy Hitler Couldn't Silence

by Leopold Trepper

Book Overview

Great Game, The: Memoirs Of The Spy Hitler Couldn't Silence, by Trepper, Leopold This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070651469
• ISBN13: 9780070651463
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This is a great book

In my opinion, this work gives the most poignant portrayal of the incredible bravery of the people who fought fascism during the 30s and 40s. For Leopold Trepper, a Polish Jew who emigrated to Israel during the 1920s only to be expelled by David Ben Gurion for organizing unions that included Arabs as well as Jews and who later became a Soviet citizen, he and his cohorts operated not only under the noses of the Nazis but as well under constant threat of Stalin, who was busy purging the Red Army even as the Nazi Germany was arming itself, and likewise sent spies to spy on his spies, thus endangering the Red Orchestra's delicate operations.There is an appendix also that contains writings and letters from Trepper's associates that are extremely moving.I would highly recommend this book.

A clasic in my library

Mr. Trepper offers in his book an incredible but real account of his own experience as head of a Russian spy network in occupied France. It has no waste at all. Every friend who borrowed the book has been searching for a copy. It's a shame the book is out of print.