The Nine Lives of Otto Katz

ISBN-13: 9780553820188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 491 str.

Jonathan Miles

Opis

Communist spy Otto Katz played a crucial role in the history of the first half of the 20th century. His story takes us from Bohemian Prague to Weimar Berlin, from the Reichstag fire to the Spanish Civil War and World War II, from Paris to London and New York.

Recenzje

This irresistible biography exposes a man by turns showy and shadowy . . . Miles conjures the spy-game atmospherics of the era wonderfully The Sunday Times

O autorze

Cultural historian Jonathan Miles has a personal engagement with St Petersburg and its people that dates back to the Soviet era. Born in a trunk, Jonathan has been travelling ever since and currently lives in Paris. Having taken a first from University College, London, he received his doctorate from Jesus College, Oxford. Early books include studies of British artists Eric Gill and David Jones. Most recently, Medusa, The Shipwreck, the Scandal and the Masterpiece, a voyage through the artistic, political and moral clashes of Restoration France, and Nine Lives of Otto Katz, the tale of a flamboyant Soviet spy, were both published to international acclaim.