secret service

An account of a virtually unknown pre-World War II counterespionage operation describes how naturalized German-American agent William G. Sebold became the FBI's first double agent and was a pivotal figure in the arrests of 33 enemy agents for the Nazis.

An account of the transformation of the wartime Office of Strategic Services into the Central Intelligence Agency and the growth of America's intelligence community.

Hitler's Reich spawned a welter of organizations that conducted espionage and counterespionage. As was often the case in the Nazi bureaucracy, these secret services rarely cooperated with one another and frequently worked at cross-purposes. The leaders of these clandestine organizations were complex, ambitious men who vied for power, scarcely hesitating to discredit a rival in the Machiavellian struggle for supremacy in the German shadow world.

Describes how much Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew from intelligence sources before the Holocaust and also whether or not he had advance warning about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Christine Granville was Britain's first female special agent of World War II, and the daughter of a Polish aristocrat and his wealthy Jewish wife. In 1939, after the outbreak of war, she was recruited by British intelligence and her courage, quick wit and determination saved the lives of many fellow officers.

Just as Hitler is preparing to invade Britain in 1940, the Henderson Boys are faced with a decision: head south to neutral Spain or sabotage the German invasion plans.

Describes how German operatives during World War I tried to carry out terrorist plots in New York and New Jersey in order to cripple American shipping lanes. Thanks to the efforts of the New York City Police Bomb and Neutrality Squad, however, their plans were foiled, greatly impacting the war. Includes over fifty black-and-white photographs.