Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative

by Emil Draitser

Book Overview

Sailor, painter, doctor, lawyer, polyglot, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov (1901-75) led a life that might seem far-fetched for a spy novel, yet here the truth is stranger than fiction. The result of a thirty-five-year journey that started with a private meeting between the author and Bystrolyotov in 1973 Moscow and continued through the author's subsequent research in international archives, Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810126648
• ISBN13: 9780810126640
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"