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Author:	Chapman Pincher
Title:	Their Trade Is Treachery
Publisher:	Sidgwick & Jackson
Country:	UK
Date:	1981
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Society, Crime
ISBN-10:	0283987812
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ppint. 22nd Jan 2022		Review non-fiction, espionage, politics: chapman pincher was a right-wing journalist and political commentator with excellent contacts in some parts of britain's intelligence, spy and counter-intelligence services. this allowed him privileged access to quite a few ''real-life'' espionage stories, particularly those revealing or emphasising the threat from the infiltration of the trades unions, the political party they supported, the newspapers that were generally sympathetic to them, and journals & journalists likewise - whether or not these stories were in fact true... - he also helped break the stories of philby, burgess & maclean, three british communists working for the soviet union within the british counter-intelligence service, and eventually also anthony blunt, keeper of the queen's art collection. - strangely, he completely missed the british secret service's plot to overthrow the democratically-elected, mildly left(''-wing'') labour government of harold wilson... - which was eventually published by heinemann australia, despite the government's very heavy-handed threats and other attempts to suppress its breaking into general public knowledge. - nevertheless, this is an absorbing - and largely true, if somewhat partial - overview and account of the world of espionage, especially through the nineteen forties, fifties, sixties and seventies, as seen from the eyes of a very well-connected right-wing british journalist and entertaining writer. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 22nd Jan 2022		sidgwick & jackson imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition sidgwick and jackson limited 1 tavistock chambers, bloomsbury way, london wc1a 2sg cover (d-j) art (mainly typographical, designed by bartholemew wilkins & partners credited on back flap) cover (d-j) price £7.95 312pp. including xii pp. titles, indica, table-of-contents (chapters), foreword etc, end 4pp. index, sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between carmine-coloured cloth-covered boards, author, title & publisher's logo blocked in silver on spine

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