David E. Hoffman
Author
Language
English
Description
"While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 519 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David E. Hoffman comes the riveting biography of Oswaldo Paỳ, a dissident who dared to defy Fidel Castro, inspiring thousands of Cubans to fight for democracy.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the largest salmonella outbreak on record, sickening six hundred people in sixteen months, and the inability of U.S. food safety officials to adequately prepare for the threat posed by the more dangerous strains of the bacteria.
