secret service

"A historical account of espionage during World War II, including famous spies such as Eddie Chapman, covert missions, and technologies that influenced the course of the conflict"--Provided by the publisher.

After a tragic childhood among the Great War cemeteries of Flanders Fields, a troubled young woman searches for love and meaning in war-ravaged Europe. Elaine Madden's quest takes her from occupied Belgium through the chaos of Dunkirk, where she flees disguised as a British soldier, into the London Blitz, where she finally begins to discover herself. Recruited to T Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) as a 'fast courier', she is parachuted back to the country of her birth to undertake a top-secret political mission and help speed its liberation from Nazi oppression. Elaine Madden never claimed to be a heroine, but her story proves otherwise. Its centrepiece - war service as one of only two women SOE agents parachuted into enemy-occupied Belgium - is just one episode in an extraordinary real-life drama of highs and lows, love, loss and betrayal.

In 1941, on a cool August evening, Serbian playboy Dusko Popov created a stir at Casino Estoril in Portugal by throwing down an outrageously large baccarat bet to humiliate his opponent. The Serbian was a British double agent and the money---which he had just stolen from the Germans---belonged to the British. Ian Fleming was watching from the sidelines. Dustin Popov eventually served three masters: the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI, and his entanglement with espionage, murder, assassinations, lovers, enemy spies and a Hollywood starlet, became the exploits of his literary double, James Bond.

The most shocking and audacious assassination in history was approved by Adolf Hitler---killing the three most powerful leaders in the world---Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the same time. Called Operation Long Jump, the plan was to kill all three while they attended the Tehran Conference in Iran in 1943. The city was rife with international intrigue at the time, and had the plot succeeded the outcome of World War II might have been very different.

In the summer of 1944 with the war turning against the Nazis the Henderson's boys embark on their final and most dangerous mission.

In 1943 sixteen-year-old Lucie Blaise is the newest recruit of Covert Ops, a secret espionage and sabotage organization of girls, and her mission in German occupied France is to track down information about a weapon that could wipe out all of Western Europe--and then dismantle it before it can be used.

In 1943 sixteen-year-old Lucie Blaise is the newest recruit of Covert Ops, a secret espionage and sabotage organization of girls, and her mission in German occupied France is to track down information about a weapon that could wipe out all of Western Europe--and then dismantle it before it can be used.

A portrait of the men and women who worked as spies and code breakers during World War II.

Explores the secrets of World War I, including spies, the Red Baron, the mysterious Mata Hari, Q ships, and more.