• Seventeen Moments Of Spring Book

Seventeen Moments Of Spring Book

'Seventeen Moments of Spring' stands apart from all of that. It does share the stage with another great Russian spy thriller series that starts with 'Oshibka Residyenta', The Secret Agent's Blunder, (find it at Amazon) with its straight-up portrayal of Cold War espionage. But that, too, is a story made up for the screen.

Tmnt 3 gba download. It seems only fair to pick a novel from the other side of the Iron Curtain, but Seventeen Moments of Spring is far from a token inclusion. It’s one of the most suspenseful thrillers ever written. Semyonov composed it at the instigation of Yuri Andropov, the KGB chief who was on a mission to redeem the dismal reputation of the Soviet intelligence services. It’s set in the final weeks of the Second World War when Russian agent Maxim Isaev, disguised as a Nazi official, is trying to prevent a peace deal between the Germans and the Americans. The book spawned one of the Soviet Union’s most popular television series in the Seventies, and Isaev has become a folk hero in Russia. Propaganda at its most entertaining.