The spy who tried to stop a war: Katharine Gun and the secret plot to sanction the Iraq invasion

✍ Scribed by Gun, Katharine;Mitchell, Marcia;Mitchell, Thomas

• Book ID: 100590863
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; William Collins
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 142 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Great Britain., Iraq., United States.
• ISBN: 0008348561

✦ Synopsis

pt. 1. Invitation to a conspiracy. Message sent -- Message received -- Four weeks that changed everything -- Conscience meets Inspector Tintin -- pt. 2. Fallout. Detour on the secret road to war -- Outrage -- Silence in Washington -- Taiwan calling -- pt. 3. The woman. Eight months in limbo -- The third-culture kid -- pt. 4. The legal case. The blonde who dropped the bombshell -- Deportation revisited -- The prosecution and the defense build a case -- pt. 5. Aftermath. A historic collapse at the Old Bailey -- Reaction, rebellion, and a crushing new revelation -- An uncommon day in the House of Commons -- Motivations, misdeeds, and tragic mistakes -- Whistle-blowing : conscious and confrontation -- A life interrupted.;"Tells the story of a young British secret service officer, Katharine Gun, and her courageous decision to expose an illegal US-UK operation -- a covert plot to influence the UN vote that would have authorized the Iraq invasion"--Page 4 of cover.

✦ Subjects

United States