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Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents the stories of three men at the center of a legendary first prisoner exchange between the Soviet Union and America, describing the chance events that contributed to their captures and rescues and their indirect contributions to triggering the arms race.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 686 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful and secretive colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers. America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials, including newly discovered...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Gives readers a thrilling, behind-the-scenes look into how Cold War spies gathered information for the United States and the Soviet Union. Learn about the tools that daring spies used during this conflict, and how spies such as Oleg Penkovsky and Martha Peterson risked their lives to unearth another country's secrets" --