Bridge of Spies - Brossura

Whittell, Giles

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ISBN 10: 1849833273 ISBN 13: 9781849833271

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

THE DRAMATIC EVENTS BEHIND THE FILM BRIDGE OF SPIES. 'Riveting, meticulously researched and beautifully written, Bridge of Spies unlocks one of the most fascinating espionage mysteries of the Cold War' - Ben Macintyre, author of Agent Zigzag and SAS Rogue Heroes Bridge of Spies is a gripping, entertaining, hair-raising and comical story, which moves effortlessly from the hardware of high-flying planes and new missiles to the geopolitics of the nuclear stand-off and through the poignant personal stories of its central protagonists: Powers, the all-American hero, blacklisted for not having killed himself on his descent to earth; a KGB spy who has spent aimless and lonely years achieving nothing in the US; and the opposing leaders Khrushchev and Eisenhower, both trapped in a spiral of confrontation neither wants. Telling the true story that inspired Le Carre's famous scene, Bridge of Spies is a brilliant take on the absurdity and heroism of the Cold War days that will appeal to a new generation of readers unfamiliar with the history but drawn in by the compelling and vividly recreated narrative.

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Recensione:

'Riveting, meticulously researched and beautifully written, Bridge of Spies unlocks one of the most fascinating espionage mysteries of the Cold War' Ben Macintyre, author of Agent Zigzag
'Whittell's gift for colour gives the book momentum.... Bridge of Spies wants to be entertaining and succeeds' The Times, Joseph Kanon
'On May 1, 1960, an American pilot was shot down by the Russians, leading to one of the most dramatic espionge mysteries of the Cold War. For the first time, Giles Whittell tells the full story of Francis Gary Powers' The Times
'You'll have to hold your nerve reading Giles Whittell's nonfiction espionage thriller, which investigates the first prisoner swap between East and West in Berlin 1962'
Mail on Sunday

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Bridge of Spies is a gripping true story of three men, the spies exchanged between the Soviet Union and America on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962.
Rudolf Abel, a Soviet Spy who was a master of disguise; Gary Powers, an American who was captured when his spy plane was shot down; and Frederic Pryor, a young American doctor mistakenly identified as a spy and captured. Two of them - the spy and the pilot - were the original seekers of weapons of mass destruction, but the third was an intellectual, in over his head. They were rescued against daunting odds by fate and by their families, and then all but forgotten. Yet the fates of those men exemplified the pathological mistrust that fueled the arms race for the next 30 years.
Bridge of Spies vividly traces the journeys of these men, whose fate defines the complex conflicts that characterized the most dangerous years of the Cold War. This is their story.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1849833273
• ISBN 13: 9781849833271
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304