THE SPY WHO CHANGED THE WORLD: Klaus Fuchs, Physicist and Soviet Double Agent
by ROSSITER, Mike
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1510726748
- ISBN 13
- 9781510726741
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About This Item
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2017 Skyhorse hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. While the font size is larger than normal, it's not actually "large print" either. Odd. CONTENT: The incredible true story of a British physicist who was an undercover spy for the Soviets. The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over sixty years disinformation and lies surrounded the story of Klaus Fuchs as the Governments of Britain, the United States and Russia all tried to cover up the truth about his treachery. Piecing together the story from archives in Britain, the United States, Russia and Germany, The Spy Who Changed the World unravels the truth about Fuchs and reveals for the first time his long career of espionage. It proves that he played a pivotal role in Britain's bomb program in the race to keep up with the United States in the atomic age, and that he revealed vital secrets about the atom bomb, as well as the immensely destructive hydrogen bomb to the Soviet Government. It is a dramatic tale of clandestine meetings, deadly secrets, family entanglements and illicit love affairs, all set against the tumultuous years from the rise of Hitler to the start of the Cold War.
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- Title
- THE SPY WHO CHANGED THE WORLD: Klaus Fuchs, Physicist and Soviet Double Agent
- Author
- ROSSITER, Mike
- Illustrator
- No illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1510726748
- ISBN 13
- 9781510726741
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- True Crime, Espionage, Nuclear secrets, Espionage, International relations, Cold War activities, Intelligence operatives, Double agents, Political Science,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science; True Crime; American History: Spies; Politics; History: Cold War; True Crime: Espionage;
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