BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)<br /> Pic: TheHistoryPress/BNPS<br /> <br /> Douglas Boyd was arrested at gunpoint where the two nearer commuters are getting on their morning train to work in Berlin<br /> <br /> A former spy has given a unique account of being held hostage in an East German prison and interrogated by the KGB in a new book.<br /> <br /> Ex-British agent Douglas Boyd was confronted by the KGB while enduring solitary confinement as a Cold War prisoner in a Stasi interrogation prison behind the iron curtain in 1959.<br /> <br /> KGB officers tried desperately to get him to break his cover - of a run of the mill clerk - and offered him a bogus deal in order to get him out of the prison so they could take him to a Gulag.<br /> <br /> The Solitary Spy, A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin, by Douglas Boyd, is published by The History Press and costs &pound;20.
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