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Spies the secret showdown between America and Russia

"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"--

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Main Author: Favreau, Marc, 1968- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Spies > United States > History > 20th century.
Spies > Soviet Union > History.
Espionage, American > History > 20th century.
Espionage, Soviet > History.
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
Cold War.
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [272]-293) and index.
ISBN:9780316545921
0316545929
Author Notes:Marc Favreau is an executive editor at The New Press. He is the acclaimed author of Crash: The Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of America and co-editor (with Ira Berlin and Steven F. Miller) of Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation and the editor of A People's History of World War II: The World's Most Destructive Conflict, as Told by the People Who Lived Through It , both published by The New Press. He lives in New York City and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

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