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The International Spy, Classics To Go

Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War. Excerpt: "I never use the same stratagem more than once. It is to this rule that I attribute my success. On previous missions to Russia I assumed the disguises of a French banker, of the private secretary to Prince Napoleon, of an emissary from an Indian Maharaja, and of an Abyssinian Maduga. I now decided to go thither as an Englishman, or rather—for there is a distinction between the two—as a Little Englander.

Allen Upward

George Allen Upward (20 September 1863 – 12 November 1926 was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher. His work was included in the first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, which was edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914.

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