Ethel Rosenberg av Anne Sebba

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<p><b>''A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history'' HADLEY FREEMAN</b><br><b>''Totally riveting. I couldn''t put it down'' VICTORIA HISLOP<br>''Ethel sings out for all women who have been misunderstood and wronged, and refuse to bow down'' NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE</b><br><b>''A shocking tale of betrayal, naivety, misogyny and judicial failure'' SONIA PURNELL</b><br><b>''A historic miscarriage of justice laid bare for our times'' PHILIPPE SANDS</b><br><br>Ethel Rosenberg was a supportive wife, loving mother to two small children and courageous idealist who grew up during the Depression with aspirations to become an opera singer.<br><br>On 19 June 1953 she became the first woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder. She was thirty-seven years old.<br><br>Ethel''s conviction for conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union followed what FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called the ''trial of the centu