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...CASE OF RICHARD SORGE by F. W. Deakin and G. R. Storry. 373 pages. Harper...
...popular novel and at least eight nonfiction works have been written about the spy ring that Sorge operated in Japan between 1933 and 1941. This book, however, is the definitive one. Oxford Dons Deakin and Storry, who spent three years interviewing officials and studying a massive file of court transcripts and official documents, turned out a sound, scholarly underpinning for the story of Sorge's espionage activities...
...Deakin and Storry have done an admirable job in fitting together the bits and pieces in the Sorge case, and in doing so provide an engrossing study of the tedious side of spying. Spy-thriller fans should be warned, however, that the book is too densely packed with scholarly detail to be fast-moving and exciting; it bristles not with action but with footnotes...
...Brutal Friendship, by F. W. Deakin. In a scrupulously documented study, Historian Deakin shows how unacknowledged friction between Hitler and Mussolini poisoned the relations and disrupted the war efforts of their two countries...
...Brutal Friendship, by F. W. Deakin. In a scrupulously documented study, Historian Deakin shows how unacknowledged friction between Hitler and Mussolini poisoned the relations and disrupted the war efforts of their two countries...