Suchergebnisse

The Pastor's Daughter -- Against the Tide -- Leipzig -- Berlin -- 1989 -- The Apprentice -- To the Chancellery at Last -- Her First American President -- Dictators -- The Private Chancellor -- Limited Partners -- Europe is Speaking German Now -- "Get me Angela on the Phone" -- The Summer of Reem -- The Worst of Times -- Enter Trump -- Something Has Changed in Our Country... -- A Partner at Last? -- Toward the End.

Intro -- Dedication -- Preface: The Capture of Minds -- Introduction: The Trap -- Chapter 1: A Swiss Childhood -- Chapter 2: America -- Chapter 3: The Making of a Radical -- Chapter 4: The Convert -- Chapter 5: Spy Games -- Chapter 6: Spies in Flight -- Chapter 7: Desperate Comrades -- Chapter 8: Spain -- Chapter 9: War -- Chapter 10: Marseille -- Chapter 11: The Spy in Wartime -- Chapter 12: Child of the Century -- Chapter 13: Cold Peace -- Chapter 14: Man without a Country-1948 -- Chapter 15: The End of the Line -- Chapter 16: Bloodlust Again -- Chapter 17: Kidnapped -- Chapter 18: Two More Fields Disappear -- Chapter 19: Erica Falls in the Net -- Chapter 20: The Prisons Open -- Chapter 21: Still Not Free -- Chapter 22: The Age of Suspicion -- Chapter 23: Twilight Years -- Chapter 24: Prague -- Chapter 25: Home at Last -- Chapter 26: The Stranger -- Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- Photo Credits -- About Kati Marton -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright.

This book reveals the life of Noel Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American who spied for Stalin during the 1930s and forties. Later, a pawn in Stalin's sinister master strategy, Field was kidnapped and tortured by the KGB and forced to testify against his own Communist comrades. How does an Ivy League-educated, US State Department employee, deeply rooted in American culture and history, become a hardcore Stalinist? The 1930s, when Noel Field joined the secret underground of the International Communist Movement, were a time of national collapse. Communism promised the righting of social and political wrongs and many in Field's generation were seduced by its siren song. Few, however, went as far as Noel Field in betraying their own country.

In war-torn Greece, the murder of a young American reporter sent a shock through the West and set the stage for the four-decade Cold War; now with a new introduction by the author Greece in 1948 was a country reeling from two major conflicts. The Nazi occupation and World War II had left it weakened, and the Greek Civil War-already raging for two years-had torn it apart. One of the earliest clashes of the Cold War, Greece's civil dispute pitted the American-backed royalist government against the Soviet-funded Greek Communist Party. Reporting at the front lines for CBS News, George Polk drew th