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Cold War spies

2016
A historical account of espionage during the Cold War, including famous spies such as Aldrich Ames, covert missions, and technologies that influenced the course of the conflict.

Stealing Nazi secrets in World War II

an interactive espionage adventure
"In You Choose format, follows the path of three World War II spies. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a wireless operator, a photo reconnaissance pilot, and a spy living in enemy territory"--.

World War I spies

2016
A historical account of espionage during World War II, including famous spies such as Mata Hari, covert missions, and technologies that influenced the course of the conflict.

Code name Pauline

memoirs of a World War II special agent
2015
World War II resistance fighter Pearl Witherington Cornioley describes her experiences as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE).

World War II spies

2016
"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.

I heard my country calling

Elaine Madden, unsung heroine of the SOE
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.

Into the lion's mouth

the true story of Dusko Popov: World War II spy, patriot, and the real-life inspiration for James Bond
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.

Operation long Jump

Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the greatest assassination plot in history
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.

The catcher was a spy

the mysterious life of Moe Berg
1995

Spies and Code Breakers

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

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