The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets
✍ Scribed by Lokhova, Svetlana
- Book ID
- 110493120
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780008238117
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✦ Synopsis
On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Blériot, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalin's most audacious intelligence operation. On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of the luxury transatlantic liner SS Europa and into New York. Attracting no attention, Stanislav Shumovsky had completed his journey from Moscow to enrol at a top American university. He was concealed in a group of 65 Soviet students heading to prestigious academic institutions. But he was after far more than an excellent education. Recognising Russia was 100 years behind the encircling capitalist powers, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had sent Shumovsky on a mission to acquire America's vital secrets to help close the USSR's yawning technology gap. The road to victory began in the classrooms and laboratories of MIT – Shumovsky's destination soon became the unwitting finishing school for elite Russian spies. The USSR first transformed itself into a...