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Stalin´s American Spy: Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show-trials
Tony Sharp
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Description for Stalin´s American Spy: Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show-trials
Hardback. This new biography of Noel Field suggests he may have spied both for the Soviet Union and for the United States. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; HBTW; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 143 x 31. Weight in Grams: 652.
Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured by them and interrogated too by their Soviet superiors, Field's forced 'confessions' were manipulated by Stalin and his East European satraps to launch a devastating series of show-trials that led to the imprisonment and judicial murder of numerous Czechoslovak, German, Polish and Hungarian party members. Yet there were other events in his very strange career that could give rise to the ... Read more
Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured by them and interrogated too by their Soviet superiors, Field's forced 'confessions' were manipulated by Stalin and his East European satraps to launch a devastating series of show-trials that led to the imprisonment and judicial murder of numerous Czechoslovak, German, Polish and Hungarian party members. Yet there were other events in his very strange career that could give rise to the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849043441
SKU
V9781849043441
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About Tony Sharp
Tony Sharp (PhD) has lectured in European Studies at Dundee University. He is the author of The Wartime Alliance and the Zonal Division of Germany and Pleasure and Ambition: The Life, Loves and Wars of Augustus the Strong.
Reviews for Stalin´s American Spy: Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show-trials
'Sharp's gripping book provides the most detailed account of Noel Field, [whose] journey from a pro-communist Westerner to a pawn in Stalin's Hungarian show trials is unusual and enlightening... invaluable for gaining an insight into one of the many mysteries of the Cold War.'
Budapest Business Journal
'Stalin's American Spy is a compelling piece of work. It is ... Read more
Budapest Business Journal
'Stalin's American Spy is a compelling piece of work. It is ... Read more