ATOMIC SPY: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
by Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike
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- Condition
- Boards in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Remainder mark. Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0593083393
- ISBN 13
- 9780593083390
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 2020. 1st edition. Boards in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Remainder mark. Very Good. 400 pp. [+ xvi pp b/w photos]. Notes, biblio., index. 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. With thrilling detail from never-before-seen sources, Atomic Spy travels across the Germany of an ascendant Nazi party; the British university classroom of Max Born; a British internment camp in Canada; the secret laboratories of Los Alamos; and Eastern Germany at the height of the Cold War. Atomic Spy shows the real Klaus Fuchs--who he was, what he did, why he did it, and how he was caught. His extraordinary life is a cautionary tale about the ambiguity of morality and loyalty, as pertinent today as in the 1940s. 'Enthralling and riveting' wrote The New York Times Book Review.
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- Bookseller
- Alta-Glamour Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 114106
- Title
- ATOMIC SPY: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
- Author
- Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike
- Book Condition
- Used - Boards in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Remainder mark. Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0593083393
- ISBN 13
- 9780593083390
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2020
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