Moorehead alan

1952 · 32798 — London: Hamish Hamilton 1952. First Edition. With 4 black and white photographs. 8vo in the publisher's original orange cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and in the dustjacket. 222 pp. A fine copy with light mellowing and some evidence of shelving. FIRST EDITION. Moorehead gives the first full account of Nunn May Fuchs and Pontecorvo their double lives their personalities the methods employed by the security officers in bringing the first two to justice and the circumstances of the disappearance of the third.<br> "Since the invention of the atomic bomb treachery has come closer to the lives of ordinary people than ever before. Here Mr. Moorehead examines the mind of the twentieth-century traitor in particular relation to these three men.<br> "Klaus Fuchs is studied in great detail. Step by step we are shown how this brilliant scientist believing he held the fate of humanity in his hands arrogated to himself the right to settle its destiny only to realize in the end that his crime of treason had served no good purpose." - Publisher Hamish Hamilton hardcover