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Atomic Spy shows the real Klaus Fuchs - German by birth, British by naturalisation, Communist by belief, convicted of treason in 1950 for handing over plutonium bomb designs to the Soviets. His extraordinary life is a cautionary tale about morality and a classic anti-hero story. With thrilling detail from never-before-seen archives it places readers in the Germany of an ascendant Nazi party; the British university classroom of Max Born; a British internment camp in Canada; the secret laboratories of Los Alamos; and Eastern Germany at the height of the Cold War.
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Atomic Spy, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
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- Released
- 2020
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- Title
- Atomic Spy
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
- Publisher
- Random House LCC US
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN10
- 0593083393
- ISBN13
- 9780593083390
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, Science, Military History, World War II, Russia, Espionage
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- Atomic Spy shows the real Klaus Fuchs - German by birth, British by naturalisation, Communist by belief, convicted of treason in 1950 for handing over plutonium bomb designs to the Soviets. His extraordinary life is a cautionary tale about morality and a classic anti-hero story. With thrilling detail from never-before-seen archives it places readers in the Germany of an ascendant Nazi party; the British university classroom of Max Born; a British internment camp in Canada; the secret laboratories of Los Alamos; and Eastern Germany at the height of the Cold War.