'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN

'Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down' VICTORIA HISLOP

'Ethel sings out for all women who have been misunderstood and wronged, and refuse to bow down' NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE

'A shocking tale of betrayal, naivety, misogyny and judicial failure' SONIA PURNELL

'A historic miscarriage of justice laid bare for our times' PHILIPPE SAND

Ethel Rosenberg was a supportive wife, a beloved mother of two young children, and a brave idealist who grew up during the Great Depression with ambitions to become an opera singer. On June 19th, 1953, she became the first woman in the USA to be executed for a crime other than murder. She was thirty-seven years old. Her conviction for conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union followed what FBI director J. Edgar Hoover called 'the trial of the century' in Cold War America and remains controversial. Now, Anne Sebba's skillful, well-researched, and deeply moving biography finally reveals the true story of Ethel—a life brutally cut short based on mishandled evidence for a crime she almost certainly did not commit.

Pages: 304, Year of Publication: 0606, Dimensions: 12.8x12.8cm