An American Dreyfus ANDREW LOWNIE Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy
Jun 30, 2021
2 minutes
By Anne Sebba
Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20
A few minutes after her husband, Julius Rosenberg, was executed, Ethel Rosenberg was executed, too, on the evening of 19th June 1953, for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. The couple left two sons, aged ten and six.
The story of the Rosenbergs and the wider spy ring has been told many times before. What Anne Sebba has done in the
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