The Implosion Conspiracy

Description for THE IMPLOSION CONSPIRACY by Louis Nizer: Louis Nizer, called a "legendary attorney" by "Newsweek", has depicted the greatest spy story of the century---the true account of the Rosenberg espionage case, brilliantly set forth in both its human and its legal aspects. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, her brother David Greenglass, Morton Sobel and others were charged with passing along to Soviet Russia the secrets of the device that triggers the atom bomb. The trial that resulted will go down in history as one of the major courtroom drams of all time. The emotional content of the story is at times almost overwhelming: the love story of Ethel and Julius that endured through waves of hope and espair, and expressed in love letters between them while in the death house; the betrayal of Ethel by her beloved younger brother, David, whose testimony sent her to the chair; the heart-breaking visits to Sing Sing of the Rosenberg's four and eight-year-old sons; the heroism of th