Emma : The True Story Of Canada's Unlikely Spy

Callwood, June

Toronto, 1984

By Stoddard Publishing
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Details

Hardcover with dust jacket, 277 pages, 6x9.25 in, [15x23.5 cm], B&W photographs.
Condition

Lengthy gift inscription on the blank front endpaper; fore-edge corners bumped. Dust jacket dust-stained, creased, torn, edgeworn and mended with cello tape.
Notes

A biographical account of Emma Woikin, the Saskatchewan-born daughter of a Doukhobor family who became entangled in a Soviet espionage network during the Second World War. Raised on the prairies in the hardships of the Depression, Woikin later worked as a cipher clerk in Ottawa, where her association with Soviet contacts led to her arrest in the aftermath of the Gouzenko disclosures of 1945.

Drawing on interviews and contemporary records, Callwood reconstructs Woikin’s early life in Saskatchewan, her personal losses, and her eventual imprisonment.
ISBN

077372026X
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