Summary
Markus Wolf: The Man Without a Face
For decades, he was known only as "the man without a face", because no Western secret service managed to photograph him and reveal his identity. Markus Wolf, the successful head of the GDR intelligence service, presents his personal story for the first time in this book. In the years after World War II - in the Cold War era - he built one of the best secret services in Eastern Europe, a service that had its people in key positions in the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and NATO. The affair with his spy Guenter Guillaume in 1973 was decisive for the downfall of German Chancellor Willy Brandt. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the socialist system in Europe in 1989, Wolf's intelligence service disappeared from the scene along with the country it served. Wolf writes openly about all important events, about his successes and defeats, about the splendor and misery of spy work. Markus Wolf's Memoirs is an exciting account of the conflicts and controversies in international relations in the 20th century from the perspective of one of their most important protagonists. The book is a convincing testimony of a time, but also a work that belongs to the classics of espionage and political literature.
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