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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
The Spy and the Traitor The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Author: Ben Macintyre
The celebrated author of A Spy Among Friends and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Cold War-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the collapse of the Soviet Union. — If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Go...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780771060335
ISBN-10: 0771060335
Publication Date: 9/18/2018
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Signal
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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A spine tingling true story of cold war espionage and double agents, some motivated by ideological beliefs, some by greed.
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This book is at once a thrilling spy story and a quiet study of how ordinary people get into that kind of situation and find themselves in over their heads before they really know it, in a world where the cold war and covert warfare are a way of life. I had heard these names in the news but I never knew the backstory. This is history not as stats & facts but real people's experiences. I think it's the best of McIntryre's books. Well worth the time of anybody curious about "the way things were."


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