Item #138366 TARGET TOKYO. Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine Dillon.

TARGET TOKYO.

The story of the Sorge Spy Ring. Pp. xxii+596(last blank), 12 plates, 1 full page map, list of characters, notes, chronology, bibliography, list of articles by Richard Sorge for the Frankfurter Zeitung1940 & 1941 and for the Zeitschrift fur Geopolitik, index; qr. black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, red papered boards, a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed and split; edges of leaves faintly foxed; McGraw-Hill, New York, 1984. First edition. *'Richard Sorge was possibly the most successful spy to have lived. ... Ostensibly a journalist, Sorge's role was that of Information Officer at the German Embassy. Here he was both unofficial consultant to the German Ambassador and correspondent for the prestigious Frankfurter Zeitung, and his ring passed on numerous crucial military secrets of the thirties and World War II up to his arrest in October 1941' [wrapper blurb]. Item #138366

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