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Spies : the secret showdown between America and Russia

Author: Marc Favreau
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. ©2019
Edition/Format:  Print book : Secondary (senior high) school : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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"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"--
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Genre/Form: Juvenile works
Informational works
History
Juvenile literature
Material Type: Secondary (senior high) school
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marc Favreau
ISBN: 9780316545921 0316545929
OCLC Number: 1085582750
Target Audience: Ages 13 and up.
Description: 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Marc Favreau.

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