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Chapters: East German Defectors, German Defectors to the Soviet Union, Richard Sorge, Erich Vermehren, Thomas Kretschmann, Jürgen Sparwasser, Jörg Berger, Lutz Eigendorf, Republikflucht, Falko Götz, Bruno Beater, Norbert Nachtweih, Conrad Schumann, Axel Kruse, Hans Tiedge, Jürgen Pahl, Wolfgang Leonhard. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 61. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Sorge (Russian: ) (October 4, 1895 - November 7, 1944) was a spy who worked for the Soviet Union. He has gained great fame among espionage enthusiasts for his intelligence gathering during World War II. He worked as a journalist in both Germany and Japan, where he was imprisoned for spying and eventually hanged. His GRU codename was "Ramsay". He is widely regarded as one of the best-known Soviet intelligence officers of the Second World War, according to Phillip Knightley, the author of The Second Oldest Profession (1986). Richard Sorge in the 1940s.Sorge was born in the settlement of Sabunchi, suburb of Baku, Azerbaijan, which was part of Imperial Russia at the time. He was the youngest of the nine children of Wilhelm Richard Sorge (d. 1907) a German mining engineer and his Russian wife Nina Semionovna Kobieleva. His father's lucrative contract with the Caucasian Oil Company having expired, Richard Sorge's family moved back to Germany: in Sorge's own words, "The one thing that made my life a little different from the average was a strong awareness of the fact that I had been born in the southern Caucasus and that we had moved to Berlin when I was very small." The cosmopolitan Sorge household was "very different from the average bourgeois home in Berlin." Although Sorge considered Friedrich Adolf Sorge, an associate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, to be his grandfather, he was in fact his great-uncle. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=212352 ... Read more