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The Lost Spy
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Artikel-Nr:
9780753826683
Veröffentl:
2010
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.03.2010
Seiten:
416
Autor:
Andrew Meier
Gewicht:
493 g
Format:
198x129x24 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Meier, Andrew
Andrew Meier, a former Moscow correspondent for Time magazine, is the author of THE LOST SPY and BLACK EARTH, which was named a Book of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist and Publishers Weekly. He lives in New York.
Andrew Meier, a former Moscow correspondent for Time magazine, is the author of THE LOST SPY and BLACK EARTH, which was named a Book of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist and Publishers Weekly. He lives in New York.
A dramatic story of secrets, espionage, murder and cover-ups - the most important Cold War spy story for a generation.
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 sleuthing, THE LOST SPY traces Oggins's rise in beguiling detail - a brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuria - and his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory.
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 sleuthing, THE LOST SPY traces Oggins's rise in beguiling detail - a brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuria - and his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory.
1947 wurde der New Yorker Intellektuelle Isaiah Oggins auf Stalins Order hin brutal ermordet. Ein halbes Jahrhundert lang blieb der Fall in den geheimen Akten des KGB unter Verschluss. 1992 gelangte er für einen Augenblick an die Oberfläche, als Boris Jelzin dem Weißen Haus ein Dossier überreichte. "The Lost Spy" enthüllt schließlich die Wahrheit: Oggins war einer der ersten Amerikaner, die für die Sowjets spionierten. Auf der Basis von sechs Jahren weltweiter Spürarbeit verfolgt "The Lost Spy" das Schicksal Oggins in atemberaubender Detailarbeit: Von seinem brillanten Abschluss an der Columbia University über seine Bespitzelung der Romanovs in Paris bis zu seinem Tod durch Vergiftung in einem KGB-Labor. Eine der großartigsten Non-Fiction Detektiv-Geschichten unserer Zeit!