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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hard-up Russia expert Dr Sam Gaddis finally has a lead for the book that could solve all his career problems. But the story of a lifetime becomes an obsession that could kill him. When his source is found dead, Gaddis is alone on the trail of the Cold War's deadliest secret: the undiscovered sixth member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring. Suddenly threatened at every step and caught between two beautiful women, both with access to crucial evidence,...
Author
Publisher
ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Born and raised in the Bronx and recruited to play football at Mississippi State, Morris Cohen fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and with the U.S. Army in World War II. He and his wife, Lona, were as American as football and fried chicken, but for one detail: they'd spent their entire adult lives stealing American military secrets for the Soviet Union. And not just any military secrets, but a complete working plan of the first atomic...
4) Dead doubles: the extraordinary worldwide hunt for one of the Cold War's most notorious spy rings
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xviii, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War traces the 1961 international manhunt for five Soviet spies whose activities exposed the shadowy world of deep-cover KGB operatives.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain--the German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb--showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Crown, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xviii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with...
Publisher
Movie Ventures
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (194 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blunt: "In 1951, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, trusted members of British Intelligence, defected to Russia. They were part of the notorious Cambridge spy ring, recruited during the 1930's by Anthony Blunt. Blunt eluded detection for another thirteen years until, in 1964, he confessed to treason in an immunity deal which allowed him to keep his knighthood and continue as Surveyor of the Queen's art collection. When this story was exposed in 1979,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiv, 433 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies--Maclean, Philby, Blunt--brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed...