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The story of a South Vietnamese captain -- a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America -- who returns to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause.
Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
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2021.
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact...
8) Jimmy's hall
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Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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In 1921 Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War. The Pearse-Connolly Hall was a place where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream; but above all to dance and have fun. As the hall grew in popularity its socialist and free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close. When Jimmy returns,...
10) Casino Royale
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James Bond series volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2012 reprint]
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English
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British secret agent James Bond takes on "Le Chiffre", a lethal Soviet operative with a weakness for gambling. Bond's mission is to bankrupt Le Chiffre at the baccarat table so Moscow will kill him to avoid further embarassment.
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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Duncan Chaplin Lee was one of the highest-ranking moles in the wartime U.S. intelligence apparatus. Lee was chief aide to William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the fabled head of the Office of Strategic Services and grandfather of the CIA. During World War II, Lee's political sympathies and desire to advance the fight against fascism led him to leak highly classified information to the Soviets. J. Edgar Hoover would tirelessly trace Lee's movements in an...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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This story of an anti-fascist's dramatic and remarkable victory against Nazism in 1935 is an inspiration to anyone compelled to resist when signs of oppression are on the horizon. 'By 1935, Hitler had suppressed all internal opposition and established himself as Germany's unchallenged dictator. Yet many American remained largely indifferent as he turned his dangerous ambitions abroad. William Bailey was not among them. When the SS Bremen, the flagship...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossmans Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyns The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkines gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents...
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Zuckerman novels volume 7
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English
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ra Ringold, a ditchdigger from Newark, rises to prominence in the 1940s as a radio star and is betrayed by his new wife, silent film star Eve Frame, who reveals his Communist connections during the McCarthy witch hunts of the early 1950s.
"The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers the astonishing story of the rise and fall of an American man whose life is destroyed in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. "Gripping.... A masterly,...
17) Silk stockings
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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A stern lady communist comes to Paris to retrieve three wayward comrades and a Russian composer, but instead warms up to capitalist attractions.
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Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Explores the history of socialist feminism by examining the careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing lives filled with inner conflicts, contradictions, and sometimes outrageous privilege as they moved forward with their own political projects through perseverance and dedication to their cause.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American, spied for Stalin during the 1930s and '40s. Then 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. But how does an Ivy League-educated, US State Department employee, deeply rooted in American culture and history,...
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