Colonel F. M. Bailey, whose extraordinary adventures are told here, was long accused by Moscow of being a British master spy sent in 1918 to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia. As a result, he had, many years after his death, an almost legendary reputation there--that of half-hero, half-villain. In this remarkable book he tells of the perilous game of cat-and-mouse, lasting sixteen months, which he played with the Bolshevik secret police: the dreaded Cheka. At one point, using a false identity, he actually joined their ranks, who unsuspectingly sent him to Bokhara to arrest himself. Told with almost breathtaking understatement by Bailey, this narrative offers remarkable insight into British secret intelligence work during the Great Game.

Mission To Tashkent

History

Bailey, F.M.

Asia

Oxford University Press, U.S.A.

Colonel F.M. Bailey has long been accused by Moscow of being a British master-spy sent to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia. In this book, he tells of the perilous game of cat-and-mouse, which he played with the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka.

Mission to Tashkent

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Oxford University Press

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Trubner & Co

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