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Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1942, in a quiet village in the English Cotswolds, Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. Her unassuming life hid the fact that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. Her husband was also a spy, and she was running powerful agents across Europe gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. Macintyre tells the story of "Sonya," a woman who influenced...
Author
Language
English
Description
Oleg Gordievsky was a spy like no other. The product of a KGB family and the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Russian eventually saw the lies and terror of the regime for what they were, a realization that turned him irretrievably toward the West. His career brought him to the highest post in the KGB's London station while secretly working for British intelligence. He helped foil Soviet plots, expose spies, and avoid nuclear escalation....
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
KGB chief Sergei A. Kondrashev presents "tales of surviving Stalin's purges while superiors and colleagues did not, of plotting to reveal the Berlin Tunnel, of quelling the Hungarian Revolution and 'Prague Spring' independence movements, and of assisting in arranging the final disposition of the corpses of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. [He] also details KGB propaganda and disinformation efforts that shaped Western attitudes throughout the Cold War"--Dust...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xii, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An ex-Soviet KGB agent details his primary mission to work undercover in the United States for over a decade and discusses his change of allegiance and defection from the KGB. --Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1932 George Koval's parents, Russian Jews who had emigrated because of anti-Semitism, decided to return home to live out their socialist ideals. There he was recruited by the Soviet Army as a spy and returned to the US in 1940. At Columbia University Koval knew scientists soon to join the Manhattan Project, America's atom bomb program; in the U.S. Army Koval used his scientific background and connections to secure an assignment at a site where...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring. Yet little is known of this shrewd, secretive man. The full extent of his betrayal has never been documented--until now. Drawing on the recent release of previously classified files, A Spy Named Orphan meticulously documents the extraordinary story of a man leading a chilling double life until his exposure and defection to...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of two Cold War spies -- CIA agent Jack Platt and KGB agent Genya Vasilenko -- and their improbable friendship. In 1978, already a notorious iconoclasts within their respective agencies, they were each assigned to seduce one other into betraying their countries. Instead the men ended up becoming the best of friends. Chock full of treachery, darkly comic misunderstandings, bureaucratic inanity, the Russian Mafia, and landmark intelligence...
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