secret service

"In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Believing that Britain was locked in an existential battle, Winston Churchill had already created a secret agency, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting. Their job, he declared, was to "set Europe ablaze." But with most men on the front lines, the SOE was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women"--Jacket flap.

Examines the life of Vera Atkins, who recruited and trained hundreds of agents in the Special Operations Executive, Great Britain's secret organization that helped build and supported the resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe, and chronicles her efforts to discover what happened to missing agents in France after the war.

Discusses the lives and careers of a number of World War II spies and secret agents.

"Looks at the secret war on a global basis, bringing together the British, American, German, Russian and Japanese histories [and] examines the espionage and intelligence machines of all sides in World War II, and the impact of spies, code-breakers and partisan operations on events"--Provided by publisher.

"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: 'She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.' This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's 'ministry of ungentlemanly warfare,' and, before the United States had even entered the war, became the first woman to deploy to occupied France . . . At a time when sending female secret agents into enemy territory was still strictly forbidden, Virginia Hall came to be known as the 'Madonna of the Resistance,' coordinating a network of spies to blow up bridges, report on German troop movements, arrange equipment drops for Resistance agents, and recruit and train guerilla fighters"--Provided by publisher.

"When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Which was dangerous enough, but as fighting erupted across the continent, instead of returning home, she headed to France. In a country divided between freedom and fascism, Virginia was determined to do her part for the Allies. An ordinary woman from Baltimore, Maryland, she dove into the action, first joining a French ambulance unit and later becoming an undercover agent for both the British Special Operations Executive and the US Office of Strategic Services. Working as a spy in the intelligence network, she made her way to Vichy, coordinating Resistance movements, assisting in the sabotage of Nazis, and rescuing downed Allied soldiers. She passed in plain sight of the enemy, and soon found herself being hunted by the Gestapo. But Virginia cleverly evaded discovery and death, often through bold feats and daring escapes. Her covert operations, efforts with the Resistance, and risky work as a wireless telegraph operator greatly contributed to the Allies' eventual win"--.

Some people call him the smartest baseball player of all time. Moe Berg could speak twelve languages and make up signs on the ball diamond. How did this major league catcher go on to become an American spy in World War II?.

"The extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during World War II"--Provided by publisher.

The autobiography of Juan Pujol Garci?a that focuses on his life during World War II, when he was a double agent for the Allies under the codename GARBO, while the German's believed him to be their spy, codenamed ARABEL.

A biography about Moe Berg, a Jewish major league baseball player who became a spy for the United States government during World War II.