The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War

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The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katherine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion By Marcia andThomas Mitchell Foreword by Norman Solomon Pages: 256 Pub. Date 8.1.08 ISBN: 9780981576916 Media Contact: Darcy Cohan 415-339-4111 darcycohan@p3books.com

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Beau Friedlander simnyc@rcn.com 718.576.2573 THE SPY WHO TRIED TO STOP A WAR Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion By Marcia and Thomas Mitchell • Foreword by Norman Solomon ______________________________________________________________ “One of the crucial untold stories of the Iraq war…. It is fitting tribute to the courage of Katharine [...]

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No one has had this story to tell before, because no one else—including myself—has ever done what Katharine Gun did: tell secret truths at personal risk, before an imminent war, in time, possibly, to avert it. Hers was the most important—and courageous—leak I’ve ever seen, more timely and potentially more effective than the Pentagon Papers. —Daniel [...]

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In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, a young British intelligence officer thought she had information that could halt the march to war. To leak that information, however, would mean breaking her pledge to protect state secrets. In the end, Katherine Gun decided to reveal what she had discovered—an illegal plot to influence the UN’s [...]