Operation Kronstadt: The Greatest True Tale of Espionage to Come Out of the Early Years of MI6

By Harry Ferguson

Categories: History

Harry Ferguson tells the true story of two British agents in revolutionary Russia in 1919: the spy Paul Dukes, a former concert pianist, and Augustus Agar, a young naval officer. Dukes built a network of informants inside Bolshevik Petrograd while Agar ran fast motor boats across the Gulf of Finland to bring out his intelligence. Their mission included a daring torpedo attack on the Red Fleet at Kronstadt, which earned Agar the Victoria Cross.

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• Shane Parrish: “A fascinating book following the stories of two men. Paul Dukes, a concert pianist and spy for England in 1919 St. Petersburg, and Gus Agar, the naval lieutenant MI6 sent to save him.”