The Western Secret Services and the Bolsheviks.
'Iron Maze' is the fascinating and, until now, untold story of the secret war waged by Western intelligence against the Bolsheviks in Russia from 1917. From his unique and privileged access to secret service files in England, France, America and Russia, Gordon Brook-Shepherd has pieced together one of the greatest "what ifs" in history: What if the Western secret services had succeeded in capturing Lenin as they planned?
Brook-Shepherd reveals how the Western powers worked together first to persuade the Bolsheviks to stay in the First World War on their side, and then to attempt their overthrow during the Russian Civil War. It also shows how the Bolsheviks often knew of their adversaries' plans and used them as dupes in their own plots.
