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London: W. H. Allen, 1978. Publishers original red boards with gilt lettering to spine. Slight bumping to top and base of spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscription. 175pp. plus 16pp b/w photographs on glossy stock. Pages showing slight browning at edges otherwise pages clean and bright in firm binding. This is the extraordinary account of the love affair and subsequent marriage between an official in the British Diplomatic service and a beautiful Stalinist spy is one of the most romantic and heroic stories of World War II. John Murray, still a virgin at thirty-four, fell passionately in love with Nora - code named 'The Swallow'. This is the incredible account of how he and Nora were to achieve the impossible against all the dangers and odds of wartime and how through the personal intervention from the most unlikely sources - Stalin and Beria, Nora was to become the first Soviet war-bride.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.