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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway. It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only for a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumor that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control...
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...
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...
6) 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
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 358 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
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 KGB career took flight in Copenhagen in 1966 and eventually brought him to the highest post in the KGB's London station--but throughout that time he was secretly working for MI6, the...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 435 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge - the man John le Carré called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War. Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War, told from the first-person perspective of Eva Dillon, the daughter of one of these spies. With impeccable insider access to both families as well as CIA officers, Dillon offers a riveting true-life spy thriller told in the tradition of a family memoir"--Provided by publisher.
"A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence...
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
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
vi, 342 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 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 at a time when they should have been anything but."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance -- American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR. It's LeCarre and "The Americans" for real"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape in ways that are still felt today"-- Provided by publisher.
Series
Americans volume Season 1
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 572 minutes)
Language
English
Description
Secrets can be deadly in this suspenseful thriller about undercover Russian spies in 1980s Washington D.C. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings seem to be a typical suburban couple, but they're actually lethal KGB agents plotting to bring down America. As the Cold War escalates, Philip and Elizabeth must take extreme measures to continue their mission to keep their true identities hidden. But when an FBI agent movies in across the street, they become ensnared...
Series
Americans volume Season 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 585 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Technological advances have escalated Cold War tensions to an all-time high, and undercover KGB operatives Elizabeth and Philip Jennings face the growing threat of discovery. As their assignments grow more deadly, their family is in more danger, and their loyalties are tested like never before.
Series
Americans volume Season 3
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 450 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over their daughter's future now that the KGB is determined to recruit her. FBI agent Stan Beeman rededicates himself to uncovering the identities of the Russian spies.
Series
Americans volume Season 5
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 585 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Danger, disillusionment, and betrayal reach an all-time high in the suspense-laced fifth season of The Americans. KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' unwavering dedication to their work comes at even more of a personal cost than before. And as Paige is drawn deeper into the reality of her parents' secret job, she realizes she will never have a normal life. Meanwhile, as Cold War tensions continue to escalate, Philip and Elizabeth are suspicious...
Series
Americans volume Season 6
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 526 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is 1987, and an imminent Gorbachev-Reagan nuclear arms summit promises to ease world tensions. But life for the Jennings family is more precarious than ever: Elizabeth's relentless dedication as a KGB agent has dealt a potentially lethal blow to her marriage to Philip, who has left espionage behind. As Philip's friendship with FBI agent Stan Beeman grows, the danger of exposure of the family 'business,' which now includes Paige, reaches crisis...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When a beautiful young woman named Anya decides to become a spy, it is so she can escape a terrifying situation at home in war-torn Russia. She is sent to work as a land girl in a beautiful corner of England and begins to make friends - ones she knows she cannot betray. And she knows she's made a terrible mistake. The only person she can turn to is her fellow informer, Nikolai, and she finds herself impossibly drawn to his soulful blue eyes, his quiet...