MISSION TO TASHKENT.
London, Folio Society, 2003. 8vo.pp.xxiii + 269 + black & white photographs. and maps Original quarter red cloth in decorated boards and matching slipcase. A very good copy. Item #26344
'One of the best books about secret intelligence work ever written' Peter Hopkirk. Colonel F. M. Bailey, whose extraordinary adventures are told here, was long accused by Moscow of being a British master-spy sent in 1918 to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia. As a result, he enjoyed many years after his death an almost legendary reputation there - that of half-hero, half-villain. In this remarkable book he tells of the perilous game of cat-and-mouse, lasting sixteen months, which he played with the Bolshevik secret police, the dreaded Cheka."
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