La verità sul caso Rudolf Abel
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La mattina del 10 febbraio 1962, James Donovan è in missione sulla Glienicke Brücke, il celebre Ponte delle spie che collega Berlino Ovest con l’Est comunista. Al suo fianco c’è Rudolf Abel, la più misteriosa ed efficiente spia del XX secolo, per anni clandestinamente negli Stati Uniti a capo dello spionaggio russo. Dall’altra parte del ponte, i sovietici tengono in ostaggio Francis Powers, il pilota di un aereo-spia U-2 americano abbattuto mentre era in volo segreto sull’URSS: Donovan ha ricevuto dal presidente Kennedy l’incarico di riportarlo in patria a ogni costo.
La verità sul caso Rudolf Abel ci catapulta nelle drammatiche giornate vissute per realizzare lo scambio di prigionieri, nelle lunghe e pericolose trattative diplomatiche, nei momenti concitati e avventurosi della guerra fredda tra due blocchi con le armi costantemente puntate. Tra le pagine di questo diario rivive così un mondo di ambiguità, inganni e cospirazioni, raccontato in prima persona dall’eccezionale protagonista della più avventurosa spy story mai svoltasi a cavallo della Cortina di ferro.
- ISBN: 881167297X
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 384
- Data di uscita: 16-03-2017
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Given my general interest in all things spy-related and the fact that I grew up in Potsdam, where one end of the Glienicker Brücke (i.e. the infamous "Bridge of Spies") is located, it probably shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that the Cold War era spy exchanges carried out on that bridge hold Leggi tutto
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An interesting 1960s account of the Rudolf Abel spy case and subsequent exchange. Rudolf Abel was a KGB agent who lived undercover in New York between 1948 and 1957. This account is written by the lawyer who defended and does suffer from the fact it was written in the 1960s and the security concerns Leggi tutto
3.5 stars. Enjoyable account from the perspective of Donovan, who served as Abel's defense attorney in his espionage trial and negotiated with the Soviets and East Germans to exchange Abel for Powers and Pryor. Of course, since it was written only two years after the spy swap actually occurred, it la Leggi tutto
An interesting 1960s account of the Rudolf Abel spy case and subsequent exchange. Rudolf Abel was a KGB agent who lived undercover in New York between 1948 and 1957. This account is written by the lawyer who defended and does suffer from the fact it was written in the 1960s and the security concerns Leggi tutto
Reissued because Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are making a movie, this is a 1964 memoir by James Donovan, a lawyer who had been a deputy prosecutor at Nuremberg, and who found his Adirondack vacation derailed by assignment to represent Col. Rudolf Abel, a KGB agent who had recently been arrested a Leggi tutto
I'm pretty sure that most of the people reading this review of "Strangers on the Bridge", by the late James Donovan, found their way here after seeing the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks movie, "Bridge of Spies". Hanks starred as the lawyer in the Rudolf Abel spy case and subsequent prisoner exchange in
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