Traitors by Moorehead Alan (49 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 223 pages, with index. First Dell printing of book originally published 1952, which profiles "atomic" spies Allan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs, Bruno Pontecorvo. Mass-market paperback, edges tinted blue, wear to wraps, tear to fore-edge of front cover (repaired with clear tape) and first few pages, first two pages loose and anchored with tape. Pages age-browned, unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Book condition is very good. Very minor edge wear to very few edges. Very minor shelfwear. Front head corner very slightly rubbed. Index. 223 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Cloth, G. 222pp, 2pp b/w plates [ LACKS the portrait of Skardon & Arnold, and Pontecorvo ], a reading copy. Account of the spys Allan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs and Bruno Pontecorvo who passed UK & US atomic secrets to the Soviets. 400 grams.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 222 Pages; 14 Chapters With Index In Rear. Pages Tight; No Markings; Moderate Page Wear; 2 Pages Of B/W Photos In Middle Of Book. Front And Back End Pages Somewhat Stained.Some Crinkling Of Bottom Edges Of Pages From Previous Moisture Exposure. Yellow Hard Covers With Black Lettering On Spine. Extensive Fading On The Spine And Portions Of Front And Back Covers. Moderate Shelf Wear; Light Green Dust Jacket With Black And White Lettering On Front Dj; Images Of Three Of The Spy Ring On Back Dj. The Gripping Story Of The Atomic Energy Spy Ring And The Men Behind It. The Three Men-Allan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs, And Bruno Pontecorvo Are Revealed In The Explanations For Their Actions. Book Is Based On Scores Of Personal Interviews And Exhaustive Research And Cleared By The Authorities In British Security. An Important Study Of Atomic Espionage With The Fascination Of A Psychological Thriller. Very Rare Vintage Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Revised Edition. The book is in good condition, with a sturdy binding and clean pages. The spine shows some wear, particularly at the edges, but remains intact. The cover has minor scuffs and signs of age, typical for a book of this vintage. There is no dust jacket present, which may be common for this edition.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good Condition, First Dell Printing Juyly 1965. 223pp. Indexed. Content bright and sound with paper tanned. Covers lightly rubbed and edges rubbed / chipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Second Printing. The book's dust jacket has a large chip missing from the top edge of the front cover. There is a long tear across the front of the dust jacket which has been repaired with tape and is badly sunned. There is a small 1" closed tear at the bottom edge of the back cover of the dust jacket. ; Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover and is not clipped. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. The book's dust jacket has a large chip missing from the top edge of the front cover. There is a long tear across the front of the jacket which has been repaired at some point with tape. There is a small 1" at the bottom edge of the rear jacket cover. Very good condition in a fair dust jacket. ; Black-and-white photographs; 8vo.; 222 pages.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. Gifter's inscription on front free endpage. (nuclear weapons, anti-British espionage).

Condition: Fair. 1952. First Edition. 222 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier tanning to front free endpaper. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Visible creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Some sunning to spine and edges. Light marks to boards.

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Alan Moorehead's account of the double life of Atom spies, Fuchs, Pontecorvo and Nunn May. They were educated men who formed particular political ideas about the problems of the world and, given the opportunity of taking direct action, did so. Moorehead examines why, and how, these men turned traitor when the vast majority of their colleagues did not. (Published: 1952) (Publisher: Hamish Hamilton) (Pagination: 222pp, 4 b/w photo plates, note on sources) (Condition: Red cloth no dustjacket. Previous owner name on endpaper. Good) UL-XXXXXX.

Condition: Good. Harper & Row 1963 Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Light toning to pages with some spotting. DJ has edge tears and toning. Price clipped.

Paperback #9028 60 cents CONDITION: g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. beige cloth, 8vo, 222pp, VG in G+ chipped dj, several closed tears, atomic espionage.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 23 cm. 222, illus., sources, index. Includes four black and white illustrations. DJ has some creasing, soiling, and tears. Book has some page darkening/discoloration. Alan McCrae Moorehead, AO, OBE (22 July 1910 - 29 September 1983) was a war correspondent and historian, most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile, The White Nile (1960) and The Blue Nile (1962). During World War II he won an international reputation for his coverage of campaigns in the Middle East and Asia, the Mediterranean and Northwest Europe. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. According to the critic Clive James, "Moorehead was there for the battles and the conferences through North Africa, Italy and Normandy all the way to the end. The hefty but unputdownable African Trilogy, still in print today, is perhaps the best example of Moorehead's characteristic virtue as a war correspondent: he could widen the local story to include its global implications." And James further affirmed, "His copy was world-famous at the time and has stayed good; he was a far better reporter on combat than his friend Ernest Hemingway." Moorehead's 1946 biography of Montgomery also remains well considered - "Moorehead was well able to see - as Wilmot calamitously didn't - that Eisenhower was Montgomery's superior in character and judgment." In September 1945, a young cipher clerk at the Russian Embassy in Ottawa decided to defect to the West. His action ultimately led to the arrest for espionage of three very different men, Klaus Fuchs, Allan Nunn May, and Bruno Pontecorvo. What was it in their backgrounds and personalities that led these men--all of them brilliant and highly respected physicists--to sell atomic secrets to a foreign power? The author suggests some explanations in this book. This is derived from a Kirkus review: A highly intelligent introduction to the three atomic traitors Allan Nunn May, Klans Fuchs and Doctor Bruno Pontecervo, which is not just an airing of the facts in their cases- fascinating as they are, but an inquiry into the moral content of their treason, the political climate which prompted it, and the concept of loyalty and freedom, such betrayals jeopardized. These three, educated men rather than mercenaries and professionals, directed by a sense of a mission however misguided, present a curious study in personality: Allan Nunn May, an unremarkable little man who was a senior reader in physics at King's College London, at the time of his arrest, but prior to that had been an active informer in Montreal; Klaus Fuchs, detached, shy, serious, a scientist of international standing at the British atomic center in Harwell, and a man whose conscience led him to turn over his knowledge of the uranium bomb, the plutonium bomb and its detonating lens, to the Russians; and finally Pontecervo, also at Harwell, charming, sociable, whose happy-go-lucky holiday in Europe with his family preceded a final disappearance behind the Iron Curtain. An exiting interrogation into character and conduct, handled with style and a speculative thoughtfulness. White Lion Edition [Stated]. Presumed first printing thus.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition on red cloth.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 222p,[4]p of plates : ports ; 21 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p.222. Subjects; Fuchs, Klaus. Nunn May, Allan. Pontecrovo, Bruno. May, Allan Nunn. Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius 1911-1988. Pontekorvo, B. (Bruno) 1913-1993. Espionage, Russian Great Britain. Nuclear weapons information. Nuclear energy. 3 Kg.

mass market paperback. Condition: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED16mo; 216 pages; good mass market paperback; crease back cover and few pages; tanning pages; tips bumped with chip; few nicks to cover edges; scuff to face cover; clean pages; promtp shipping with tracking.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. red cloth, binding cocked, name blacked out on front endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 222p,[4]p of plates : ports ; 21 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p.222. Subjects; Fuchs, Klaus. Nunn May, Allan. Pontecrovo, Bruno. May, Allan Nunn. Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius 1911-1988. Pontekorvo, B. (Bruno) 1913-1993. Espionage, Russian Great Britain. Nuclear weapons information. Nuclear energy. 1 Kg.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1965, stated First Dell Printing-July, 1965. Very good condition with light wear on covers and slight discoloration.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 222 pages The dust jacket has a bit of wear, with foxing, tanning, a few stains, small tears, scuffs, and the front inside flap has been clipped. The page edges are foxed and tanned. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.