The Lost Spy
An American in Stalin's Secret Service
$68.45
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2010
Summary
For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin’s orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI - a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House. THE LOST SPY at last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets.
Based on six years of international …Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753826683 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753826682 |
| Author: | Andrew Meier |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2010 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 148mm x 26mm |
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THE LOST SPY is a jewel - one of those great lost spy stories from the Cold War but this one is special: the story of the shadowy life and killing of Stalin’s American agent and victim. As gripping as a thriller, THE LOST SPY is part history, part biography, and part quest. - Simon Sebag Montefiore.
The meteoric Russianist Andrew Meier has given us a book about the ideological delirium that possessed the planet, drawing us into a labyrinth peopled by ghosts and dreamers and carnivorous chameleons. - Martin Amis.A masterful work of historical recovery and fascinating story brilliantly told. - Orlando Figes.About The Author
Andrew Meier
Andrew Meier is a former Moscow correspondent for Time magazine and the author of Black Earth, which was named a Book of the Year by the TLS, the Economist and Publishers Weekly. He lives in New York.
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