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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
Author
Series
Cold War thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Arcadia Books Limited
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Catesby, a disgraced British spy, faces danger at every turn when he is pressured by Henry Bone, a Whitehall intelligence mandarin, into going undercover as a defector in 1956 in order to expose Butterfly, an agent who knows secrets that can destroy lives and reputations, and who is rumored to be headed to America.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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The “riveting, meticulously researched, and beautifully written” (Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy and the Traitor) true story chronicles the first and most legendary prisoner exchange of the Cold War, between East and West at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie
“A marvelous saga of dangerous missions, helter-skelter innovation, and clandestine activity.”—The Wall Street...
“A marvelous saga of dangerous missions, helter-skelter innovation, and clandestine activity.”—The Wall Street...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1961, a KGB agent defected to West Germany. The slim 30-year-old man in police custody had papers in the name of an East German, Josef Lehmann, but claimed that his real name was Bogdan Stashinsky, and he was a citizen of the Soviet Union. On the orders of his KGB bosses, he had traveled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he singlehandedly tracked down and killed two enemies of the communist regime. He used a new, specially designed...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages : 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling tale of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incredible true story of Elizabeth Bentley, a Cold War double agent spying for the Russians and the United States, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton. 1963: Reeling from the death of her mother and President Kennedy's assassination, Catherine Gray shows up on Elizabeth Bentley's doorstep demanding answers to the shocking mystery just uncovered about her family....
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Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xvii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Duncan Chaplin Lee was one of the highest-ranking moles in the wartime U.S. intelligence apparatus. Lee was chief aide to William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the fabled head of the Office of Strategic Services and grandfather of the CIA. During World War II, Lee's political sympathies and desire to advance the fight against fascism led him to leak highly classified information to the Soviets. J. Edgar Hoover would tirelessly trace Lee's movements in an...
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