The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War

by Jerrold L. Schecter

Book cover for The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War

A look at the career of the highest-ranking Soviet official to cooperate with the West describes how Oleg Penkovsky, cursed by a family's legacy of anti-Bolshevism, provided U.S. and British intelligence with accurate data on Soviet nuclear capabilities. 30,000 first printing.

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