KGB man : the Cold War's most notorious Soviet agent and the first to be exchanged at the Bridge of Spies
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
327.1247/KUHNE,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Knox Press, [2023]
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781637585924, 1637585926 :, 1637585926, 9781637585924
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"A thin, balding, and reclusive middle-aged Russian by the name of Rudolf Ivanovich Abel was one of the Soviet Union's most renowned spies during the Cold War of the 1950s...until his cover was blown by an incompetent colleague who wanted to defect to the United States. This is the full account of Abel's espionage work, his dramatic apprehension, his eventual conviction and its affirmation by the United States Supreme Court, and finally, his surprising release back to Russia"--