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Bridge of Spies

Author
Giles Whittell
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject
Cold War
Genre
History
Published
2010
Publisher
Broadway Books
Media type
Print
Pages
274 pp. ( first edition)
ISBN
978-0-7679-3107-6
OCLC
505417133
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War is a 2010 nonfiction book by Giles Whittell. The book documents prisoner exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union of their spies during the Cold War. The book was first published by Broadway Books. An audiobook version was subsequently published by ISIS Publishing, being read by Jonathan Keeble. Reception
Andrew Stuttaford, reviewing the book in The Wall Street Journal, said while Whittell was not comparable to Tom Wolfe, Bridge of Spies was like Wolfe's The Right Stuff "with a peculiarly lethal twist". Stuttaford said, "The true stars of Mr. Whittell's narrative are an extraordinary airplane and the men who flew it," though he felt that the author drew "somewhat heavy-handed parallels" in the lead-up to the Iraq War in writing about the Cold War period's contrasting intelligence and politics. Robert Legvold, reviewing for Foreign Policy, said, "Whittell is a master storyteller, and the story here—of three men seized during the Cold War—is better than Hollywood's best." Legvold said Whittell recounted the story's "utterly fascinating elements... in meticulous detail".