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Spies : the secret showdown between America and Russia
Author
Title
Spies : the secret showdown between America and Russia / Marc Favreau.
ISBN
9780316545921
0316545929
9780316545907
0316545902
9780316545884
9780316464901
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019.
Physical Description
306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 16, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-293) and index.
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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