Atomic Spy : the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs / Nancy Thorndike Greenspan.
Atomic Spy : the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs / Nancy Thorndike Greenspan.
Atomic Spy : the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs / Nancy Thorndike Greenspan.
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[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020]
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G 2020/3404
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English
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Physical content
400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Prologue: Revelations, London, August 1949 -- I. Resistance. Beginnings, Leipzig 1930 -- Loss, Kiel 1931 -- Revolt, Kiel 1932 -- Leader, Kiel 1933 -- Underground, Berlin 1933 -- Interlude, Paris 1933 -- II. Rescue. Safety, Bristol 1933 -- War, Edinburgh 1937 -- Internment, England 1940 -- Internment...
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[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020]
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New York (State)
Date Published
[2020]
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"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.
Klaus Fuchs was convicted of espionage by Britain in 1950 for handing over the designs of the plutonium bomb to the Russians, and has gone down in history as one of the most dangerous agents in American and British history. Using German archives and family correspondence, Greenspan brings into sharp focus the moral and political ambiguity of the ti...
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Atomic Spy : the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs / Nancy Thorndike Greenspan.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-389 and index.
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G 2020/3404
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74VKamVO0OMl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKamVO0OMl
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0593083393 hardcover
9780593083390 hardcover
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327.1247041092
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991024334213002626
