Sean Bourke - The Springing of George Blake, Published in 19...

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Sean Bourke - The Springing of George Blake, Published in 1970. First UK Edition. First Issue. including folded map inside the rear cover. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication to the front end page [ Dublin, May 23rd, 1970 With all best wishes, Sean Bourke] Very uncommon signed. The author's detailed account of how, , he planned and engineered George Blake's escape from prison;, out of England and then to Moscow; and of how, a few weeks later he followed him to Moscow by way of Paris. It is also an account of the two extraordinary years Bourke spent in Russia until his return to Ireland on the second anniversary of the jail-break.

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