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Atomic spy : The dark lives of Klaus Fuchs

The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain--the German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb--showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good.

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327.1247041092 Fuchs-G
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  • ISBN: 9780593083390
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    400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.

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Atomic Spy : The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
Atomic Spy : The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
by Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike
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Atomic Spy : The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs


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.