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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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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Seeing ghosts
  • Part 1: Enemies. The defector
  • The spy hunters
  • The double
  • Part 2: Deep freeze. Capital of the Cold War
  • The pilot
  • Missiles
  • Part 3: Stalemate. Moscow rules
  • War games
  • The year of the spy
  • Part 4: Thaw. The man without a face
  • Epilogue: Mole hunt
  • Acknowledgments
  • KGB: key facts
  • CIA: key facts
  • Russian espionage since the end of the Cold War
  • The CIA since the end of the Cold War
  • Cold War timeline
  • Cold War glossary
  • Glossary of key espionage techniques.

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