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Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Barnes Carr
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Description for Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Hardback. Born and raised in the Bronx Morris Cohen and his wife, Lona, were as American as football and fried chicken, but for one detail: they'd spent their entire adult lives stealing American military secrets for the Soviet Union. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJPG; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 242 x 32. Weight in Grams: 636.
Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in the autumn of 1950, a trusted colleague knocked at their door, held up a finger for silence, then began scribbling a note: Go now. Leave the lights on, walk out, don't look back. Born and raised in the Bronx and recruited to play football at Mississippi State, Morris Cohen fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and with the U.S. Army in World War II. He and ... Read more
Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in the autumn of 1950, a trusted colleague knocked at their door, held up a finger for silence, then began scribbling a note: Go now. Leave the lights on, walk out, don't look back. Born and raised in the Bronx and recruited to play football at Mississippi State, Morris Cohen fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and with the U.S. Army in World War II. He and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of New England
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
635g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Hanover, United States
ISBN
9781611688092
SKU
V9781611688092
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Ref
99-1
About Barnes Carr
Barnes Carr has been a newspaper and wire service reporter and editor covering some of the biggest stories of our time, from the capture of the Boston Strangler to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He is also the recipient of a 2013 William Faulkner Gold Medal for fiction and resides in Houston, Texas.
Reviews for Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
The Cohens were the most effective Soviet spy couple in America, and vanished under the FBI's nose, turning up as rare book dealers in London, where they continued their atomic spying. This is their story.
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