A Secret Life
Subtitle: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: May 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781586483050
Subjects: Biography: general; Espionage & secret services; European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Modern - 20th Century; Post World War II History; U.S. Government - Intelligence Agencies; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Military; Poland; Political; Espionage; Military - Intelligence/Espionage; Political Freedom & Security - Intelligence
First sentence: ONE AUGUST DAY in 1972, a German employee of the U.S. Embassy in Bonn was sorting through the morning mail when an airmail letter caught his eye.