**An international bestseller, the unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war --fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall.** In the second half of the twentieth century, while America and the Soviet Union battled for global supremacy, East and West Berlin waged t
Bridge of spies: a true story of the Cold War
β Scribed by Giles Whittell
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 326 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1849833273
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β¦ Synopsis
Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962, in the most legendary prisoner exchange between East and West? 'Bridge of Spies' vividly traces the journeys of these men, whose fate defines the complex conflicts that embodied the years of the Cold War.
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