Abel: Biography of Colonel Rudolf Abel Tapa dura - 1970

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. introduction by Burt Silverman, and index. The text is illustrated with 8 pages of black-and-white photography and illustrations of Rudolph Abel, between the years 1954-1957. Black textured coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Red coloured tint to the top text block edge. Photographic dustwrapper, with red and white background with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. On the rear dust wrapper panel is the author and Burt Silverman. The story of the activities and trial of Colonel Rudolph Abel, whose real name was Vilyam Genrikhovich Fischer, who at the time of his arrest was one of the highest ranking Russian agents ever to be captured in America. He was eventually traded for captured U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and slid into anonymity and myth. The man who gave the introduction to the book, Burt Silverman, was is his friend for more than… Leer más

Hodder & Stoughton. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.