An Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring

By Chalmers Johnson

Book Overview

This is the only complete, authoritative account of the most brilliantly successful espionage operation of the twentieth century: the notorious Communist spy ring headed by Dr. Richard Sorge, whose cover was that of senior German journalist in Tokyo during World War II. Ozaki Hotsumi, the second-ranking member of the ring, was also a prominent journalist, a leading authority on China, and a consultant to the Konoye cabinet.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804702101
• ISBN13: 9780804702102
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages