The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Politics & Social Sciences
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Politics & Social Sciences
Book Type: Paperback
Janice - reviewed on + 646 more book reviews
This book is at once a thrilling spy story and a quiet study of how ordinary people get into that kind of situation and find themselves in over their heads before they really know it, in a world where the cold war and covert warfare are a way of life. I had heard these names in the news but I never knew the backstory. This is history not as stats & facts but real people's experiences. I think it's the best of McIntryre's books. Well worth the time of anybody curious about "the way things were."