secret service

Provides an inside look at some of the real-life deceptions that turned the tide of World War II, describing the creative strategies that were used by all sides during the war.

Draws on government files, interviews, and recently declassified documents to chronicle the career of "Wild Bill" Donovan, director of the Office of Strategic Services, discussing how he became one of the most powerful men in modern espionage.

Focuses on the history of spying since World War I, including the journals, secret devices, and biographies of spies.

Traces the life of a man who managed two successful careers, as a baseball player and as a secret agent during World War II.

A biography of the woman who, during World War I, led an espionage group whose goal was to help free the Jews of Palestine from the oppression of Turkish rule.

The story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich during World War II---and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods, Pujol became Germany's most valued agent and the Allies best double agent.

In the months before World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by using various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA. Author Richard Harris Smith, retired from the CIA in 1968, documents the controversial agency from its inception to its demise under President Harry Truman and its reconfiguration as the CIA.

British operative Felicity "Flick" Clariet, her confidence shaken by a previous disaster, is given the nearly impossible task of recruiting and training a group of six women, to be known as the Jackdaws, to infiltrate and destroy Europe's largest telephone exchange, sabotaging German communications in preparation for D-Day.