secret service

Tapped by FDR to assist the Allies' efforts to secure France and build an atomic bomb, OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan and top agent Dick Canidy coordinate a sabotage mission in Germany while countering a mole who is leaking Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets.

Examines the life of Fritz Kolbe, a member of the German foreign ministry who became an important spy for the U.S. during World War II, and looks at government documents and personal archives to recount the final years of the war and the workings of the Third Reich.

An account of the career of a Nazi SS spy stationed in England during World War II.

Explores the role the Einsatzgruppen, the professional killing squads deployed in Poland and the Soviet Union early in World War II, played in the Holocaust.

D-Day, which could have been one of history's bloodiest disasters, became one of its greatest victories.

Describes the lives and covert operations of six women who worked as American spies during World War II.

During the summer of 1940, Hitler's army advances toward Paris, causing millions of French civilians to flee; meanwhile, British spy Charles Henderson, with the help of a twelve-year-old French orphan, searches for two British children who are being hunted by German agents.

As the Allies thwarted Nazi efforts to build an atomic bomb, Americans rushed to create their own nuclear weapon--unaware that the Soviets were stealing their plans.

Memoirs of World War II spy Pearl Witherington, a special agent with the British Special Operations Executive who worked and led the French Resistance. Describes Pearl's childhood in France, how she escaped in 1940, and how she parachuted back into her country in 1943 and became "Pauline," a cosmetic saleswoman who secretly transported messages for the Resistance.