title: The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion
author:  Marcia Mitchell 
description: No one has had this story to tell before, because no one else - including myself - has ever done what Katherine Gun did: tell secret truths at personal risk, before an imminent war, in time, possible 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 Ellsberg - former Defense Department and State Department official<br /><br />One of the crucial untold stories of the Iraq war is told with great passion and sensitivity by Marcia and Thomas Mitchell. It is a fitting tribute to the courage of Katherine Gun, who blew the whistle on transatlantic dirty tricks at the highest levels of government in London and Washington. A morality tale for the 21st century. --Martin Bright - New Statesman
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  THE SPY WHO TRIED TO STOP A WAR
  
  
  Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion
  
  
  
  
  
  Marcia and Thomas Mitchell
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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