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A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy

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Description for A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy Paperback. A global story of passion, espionage and double-crossing that saw a woman born to indulgence and selfishness sacrifice everything for love, only to be betrayed Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 29. .

Moura Budberg: spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century’s greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness. But after she met the British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart, she sacrificed everything for love, only to be betrayed.

When Lockhart arrived in Revolutionary Russia in 1918, his official mission was Britain’s envoy to the new Bolshevik government, yet his real assignment was to create a network of agents and plot the downfall of Lenin. Lockhart soon got to know Moura and they began a passionate ... Read more

Grippingly narrated, this is the first biography of Moura Budberg to use the full range of previously unexamined letters, diaries and documents. An incredible true story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe, A Very Dangerous Woman brings her extraordinary world vividly to life with dramatic resonances to rival the most sensational novel.

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Product Details

Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780747972
SKU
V9781780747972
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Deborah McDonald
Deborah McDonald is the author of Clara Collet 1860-1948: An Educated Working Woman and The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper: The Evidence Linking James Kenneth Stephen to the Whitechapel Murders. She lives on the Isle of Wight. Jeremy Dronfield is a writer, biographer and novelist.

Reviews for A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy
'Riveting biography…of [Moura Budberg's] remarkable life…Dangerous woman, indeed'.
Independent on Sunday
‘An extraordinarily complex story based on a fabulous cache of rich material… the end result really is an example of truth being stranger than fiction’
Good Book Guide
'Hard to go wrong with Moura's combustible life, and the authors relish her excesses'.
Independent
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Goodreads reviews for A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy


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