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Spies : the secret showdown between America and Russia

Favreau, Marc 1968- (author.).

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"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316545884
  • ISBN: 9780316464901
  • ISBN: 9780316545921
  • ISBN: 0316545929
  • Physical Description: print
    306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-293) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 13 and up.
Subject: United States. Central Intelligence Agency History 20th century Juvenile literature
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti History Juvenile literature
Spies United States History 20th century Juvenile literature
Spies Soviet Union History Juvenile literature
Espionage, American History 20th century Juvenile literature
Espionage, Soviet History Juvenile literature
United States Foreign relations Soviet Union Juvenile literature
Soviet Union Foreign relations United States Juvenile literature
Cold War Juvenile literature
KGB History
United States. Central Intelligence Agency History 20th century
Cold War
Spies Soviet Union History
Espionage, American History 20th century
Espionage, Soviet History
Spies United States History 20th century
United States Foreign relations Soviet Union
Soviet Union Foreign relations United States
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Diplomatic relations
Espionage, American
Espionage, Soviet
Spies
Soviet Union
United States
Genre: Informational works.
History.
Informational works.

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