Anne Sebba.
anne sebba
ETHEL ROSENBERG: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (2021)
This is a story of the miscarriage of justice. Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel were Jewish Americans executed by electrocution in 1953, leaving behind two children. They had been convicted of espionage for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.
In the case of Ethel, there was no convincing evidence on which to convict. She had simply been loyal to her husband, and had refused to give evidence for his prosecuion. She had not herself the engaged in any espionage.
The Guardian wrote of the book: ‘Sebba has dug deep beneath this famous and archetypically male story of spying, weapons and international tensions to give us an intelligent, sensitive and absorbing account of the short, tragic life of a woman made remarkable by circumstance.’
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Anne Sebba (born 1951) read history at King’s College London. She worked briefly at the BBC World Service, then joined the news agency Reuters, where she worked from 1972 to 1978. She is the author of nine non-fiction books for adults and two biographies for children. Her books have been translated into eight languages.
