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Churchill's Secret Agent

Author	: Max Ciampoli
Publisher	: Berkley
Release Date	: 2010
ISBN	: 9780425229750
Pages	: 474 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Churchill's Secret Agent written by Max Ciampoli and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2010 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling novel, which is based on a true story, a retired "special" secret agent recollects his recruitment as a young boy by Winston Churchill to help rid Europe of the Nazi scourge by working in the shadows of great conflict. Original.

Secret Agent

Author	: David Stafford
Publisher	: BBC Books
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN	:
Pages	: 254 pages
Rating	: 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Agent written by David Stafford and published by BBC Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World War II the British created the Special Operations Executive to co-ordinate subversion and sabotage against the enemy, using disguise, deception, bribery, explosives, guerrilla warfare and assassination. This book tells the story of the men and women through their personal reminiscences.

Secret Agents in Fiction

Author	: Lars Ole Sauerberg
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 1984-11-19
ISBN	: 1349176524
Pages	: 260 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Secret Agents in Fiction written by Lars Ole Sauerberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-11-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Big Book of Spy Trivia

Author	: Bernadette Johnson
Publisher	: Ulysses Press
Release Date	: 2021-02-02
ISBN	: 1646041305
Pages	: 280 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Spy Trivia written by Bernadette Johnson and published by Ulysses Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fascinating true stories of spies and secret agents throughout history in this ultimate collection of espionage trivia. Whether you’re a wannabe 007 or just a fan of subterfuge, the fun facts and legendary stories in this big book of spy trivia are sure to shock and fascinate. Discover how the most infamous spy organizations like the CIA and the MI6 came into existence, how they recruit citizens into their fold, and how they have shaped some of the world’s largest and most memorable historical events. You'll even learn real tactics that spies use on missions, from escaping zip ties to reading the body language of a stranger. This collection spans centuries and countries, including: • One of history's first and most iconic spy operations: the Trojan Horse in ancient Greece • America's first spy organization: George Washington's Culper Ring • Real-life KGB spies from the McCarthy Cold War era: American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg • And much more! Perfect for any person who has been fascinated by the shadowy world of espionage, this fact-packed book quizzes readers on their spy knowledge, from pop culture icons to unsung heroes that history books have forgotten.

Playfair

Author	: Bruce D. Berkowitz
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2018
ISBN	: 9781942695042
Pages	: 500 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Playfair written by Bruce D. Berkowitz and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Playfair is best known as an ingenious Scot of questionable repute who happened to invent "statistical graphics"--the line, bar, and pie charts we use today. Some are also aware he developed theories explaining international trade and investment, made contributions to concepts like price indexes and measures of national power, and pioneered strategic analysis. Yet even those familiar with his work will be surprised to learn that Playfair was, in fact, a secret agent, carrying out espionage and subversion against France on behalf of Great Britain. Many of his contributions to economics and statistics were a direct result of his most audacious operation, the first full-scale campaign to collapse a nation's currency, as the French First Republic turned radical. Playfair had a remarkable knack for appearing at--or propelling--the major events of his era. He's at James Watt's side for the birth of the Industrial Revolution. He is on the scene during the storming of the Bastille. He even helps trigger the first major political scandal in the newly formed United States, a land speculation gone bad involving Washington, Hamilton, and Jefferson. This is the first book to uncover the full, true account of this remarkable, colorful man--undeniably brilliant, hopelessly flawed, and fundamentally important. Part biography, part history, and part detective story, its pages reveal the astounding inventions and adventures of this larger-than-life swashbuckler, rogue, genius, and patriot.

Historical Dictionary of World War II

Author	: Anne Sharp Wells
Publisher	: Scarecrow Press
Release Date	: 2013-12-24
ISBN	: 0810879441
Pages	: 566 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of World War II written by Anne Sharp Wells and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of World War II: The War against Germany and Italy relates the history of this war through a chronology, an introductory essay, maps and photos, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 300 cross-referenced entries on the countries and geographical areas involved in the war, as well as the nations remaining neutral; wartime alliances and conferences; significant civilian and military leaders; and major ground, naval, and air operations. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about World War II.

The Unlikely Secret Agent

Author	: Ronald Kasrils
Publisher	: Jacana Media
Release Date	: 2010
ISBN	: 1770098909
Pages	: 183 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Unlikely Secret Agent written by Ronald Kasrils and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2010 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading like a spy thriller, this biography tells the remarkable story of a young woman’s courage in apartheid-ridden South Africa. As the book opens, in 1963, South Africa is in crisis and the white state is under siege. On August 15, the dreaded security police swoop down on Griggs Bookstore--Durban’s finest literary haunt and a place where African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party comrades frequented to receive or deliver messages and money to advance the cause of the struggle--to arrest Eleanor Kasrils, the manager’s daughter. The police threaten to "break her or hang her" if she does not lead them to her lover, Ronnie Kasrils, who is wanted on suspicion of sabotage for setting off explosions and toppling electricity poles. Though she comes under intense pressure during interrogation, Eleanor has her own secret to conceal. She has been acting as a clandestine agent for the underground ANC, utilizing the books as a means to deliver documents: "If the contact was delivering a document it was handed to her with a book for purchase. Similarly if she had a document that the courier was collecting, it would be hidden within the pages of a book already packaged and handed over as a purchase." Always, the transfer of secret documents could only take place once the recipient whispered a code: "Well, let me take both books." In order to protect her handlers and Ronnie at all costs, she astutely convinces the police that she is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and, still a prisoner, is sent off to a mental hospital in Pietermaritzburg for assessment. It is here that she plots her escape and--pursued by the police--flees with Ronnie into exile.

The Secret Agent

Author	: Joseph Conrad
Publisher	: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date	:
ISBN	: 0393522989
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mission France

Author	: Kate Vigurs
Publisher	: Yale University Press
Release Date	: 2021-05-04
ISBN	: 030020857X
Pages	: 328 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Mission France written by Kate Vigurs and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization's F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widely known--Violette Szabo, Odette Sansom, Noor Inayat Khan--others have had their stories largely overlooked. Kate Vigurs interweaves for the first time the stories of all thirty-nine female agents. Tracing their journeys from early recruitment to work undertaken in the field, to evasion from, or capture by, the Gestapo, Vigurs shows just how greatly missions varied. Some agents were more adept at parachuting. Some agents' missions lasted for years, others' less than a few hours. Some survived, others were murdered. By placing the women in the context of their work with the SOE and the wider war, this history reveals the true extent of the differences in their abilities and attitudes while underlining how they nonetheless shared a common mission and, ultimately, deserve recognition.

Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe

Author	: Valentina Glajar
Publisher	: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date	: 2019-08-01
ISBN	: 1640122001
Pages	: 384 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe written by Valentina Glajar and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post–Cold War period there are no signs of this enthusiasm diminishing. The opening of secret police archives in many Eastern European countries has provided the opportunity to excavate and narrate for the first time forgotten spy stories. Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe brings together a wide range of accounts compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files. The stories are a complex amalgam of fact and fiction, history and imagination, past and present. These stories of collusion and complicity, betrayal and treason, right and wrong, and good and evil cast surprising new light on the question of Cold War certainties and divides.

Canadian Patent Office Record

Author	: Canada. Patent Office
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1937
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian Patent Office Record written by Canada. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spy with 29 Names

Author	: Jason Webster
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2014-04-03
ISBN	: 1448137888
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Spy with 29 Names written by Jason Webster and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist – and 24 other names. He tricked Hitler over D-Day. He was the greatest double agent in history. But who, exactly, was Juan Pujol? Using his intimate knowledge of Spain and his skills as a crime novelist, Jason Webster tells for the first time the full true story of the character who captured the imagination in Ben Macintyre’s Double Cross. He tells of Pujol’s early life in Spain, his determination to fight totalitarianism and his strange journey from German spy to MI5. Working for the British, whom he saw as the exemplars of freedom and democracy, he created a bizarre fictional network of spies – 29 of them – that misled the entire German high command, including Hitler himself. Above all, in Operation Fortitude he diverted German Panzer divisions away from Normandy, playing a crucial role in safeguarding D-Day and ending the war, and securing his reputation as the most successful double agent of the war. Meticulously researched, yet told with the verve of a thriller, The Spy with 29 Names uncovers the truth – far stranger than any fiction – about the spy behind one of recent history’s most important and dramatic events.

ESPIONAGE Ultimate Collection: True Spy Stories and Spy Biographies, Action Thrillers, International Mysteries & War Espionage

Author	: John Buchan
Publisher	: e-artnow
Release Date	: 2018-12-21
ISBN	: 8027248981
Pages	: 14933 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book ESPIONAGE Ultimate Collection: True Spy Stories and Spy Biographies, Action Thrillers, International Mysteries & War Espionage written by John Buchan and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 14933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents (George Barton) My Adventures as a Spy (Robert Baden-Powell) Novels: John Buchan: The 39 Steps Greenmantle Mr Standfast The Three Hostages The Island of Sheep The Courts of the Morning The Green Wildebeest Huntingtower Castle Gay The House of the Four Winds The Power-House John Macnab The Dancing Floor The Gap in the Curtain Sick Heart River Sing a Song of Sixpence E. Phillips Oppenheim: The Spy Paramount The Great Impersonation Last Train Out The Double Traitor Havoc The Spymaster Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat The Vanished Messenger The Dumb Gods Speak The Pawns Court The Box With Broken Seals The Devil's Paw The Bird of Paradise The Zeppelin's Passenger The Kingdom of the Blind The Illustrious Prince The Lost Ambassador Mysterious Mr. Sabin The Betrayal The Colossus of Arcadia Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent John R. Coryell: The Great Spy System William Le Queux: The Great War in England in 1897 The Invasion of 1910 Whoso Findeth a Wife Of Royal Blood Her Majesty's Minister The Under-Secretary The Czar's Spy Spies of the Kaiser The Price of Power Her Royal Highness At the Sign of the Sword Number 70, Berlin The Way to Win The Zeppelin Destroyer Sant of the Secret Service Fred M. White: The Romance of the Secret Service Fund By Woman's Wit The Mazaroff Rifle In the Express The Almedi Concession The Other Side of the Chess-Board Three of Them Robert W. Chambers: In Secret The Dark Star The Slayer of Souls The Flaming Jewel James Fenimore Cooper: The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground Arthur Conan Doyle: His Last Bow Talbot Mundy: Jimgrim and Allah's Peace The Iblis at Ludd The Lion of Petra The Woman Ayisha Affair in Araby A Secret Society Moses and Mrs. Aintree The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb

The Global Infrastructure of the Special Operations Executive

Author	: Derwin Gregory
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2021-12-24
ISBN	: 1351718339
Pages	: 158 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Global Infrastructure of the Special Operations Executive written by Derwin Gregory and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, the British government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating ‘all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy overseas’. Although the overseas operations of this branch of the British Secret Services are relatively well known, few studies have explored the ‘backroom sections’ of this organisation. This book draws together the infrastructure developed to support an agent’s ‘journey’ from recruitment to despatch to the field. At the start of the Second World War there were few existing facilities established within the UK to support clandestine operations. As the conflict progressed, in parallel to learning the operational procedures of their trade, SOE also had to rapidly expand their support infrastructure around the world. The organisation could effectively support their agents only by establishing facilities dedicated to training, research and development, supply, transportation, communication, and command and control. By predominately focusing on the organisation’s ‘agent facing’ infrastructure, this book provides a backdrop to the brave men and women who conducted operations abroad. In addition, it gives an overview of the facilities in which SOE’s backroom staff lived and worked. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of archaeology, history and war studies.

The Secret Agent

Author	: Joseph Conrad
Publisher	: Broadview Press
Release Date	: 2009-08-31
ISBN	: 9781770482333
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Agent is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to sympathize with a group of international anarchists but reports on their activities to both the Russian embassy and the British government. As he is drawn further into a terrorist bombing plot, his family also becomes involved, with devastating consequences. Based on a real-life failed anarchist plot, The Secret Agent is both intimately engaged with its historical moment and profoundly relevant today. This new Broadview Edition helps to recreate the historical context that informed Conrad’s preoccupations with global terrorism, human degeneration, the relativity of time, and the position of women.

Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960

Author	: Alan Burton
Publisher	: Vernon Press
Release Date	: 2018-01-31
ISBN	: 1622732901
Pages	: 550 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960 written by Alan Burton and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960 is a detailed historical and critical overview of espionage in British film and television in the important period since 1960. From that date, the British spy screen was transformed under the influence of the tremendous success of James Bond in the cinema (the spy thriller), and of the new-style spy writing of John le Carré and Len Deighton (the espionage story). In the 1960s, there developed a popular cycle of spy thrillers in the cinema and on television. The new study looks in detail at the cycle which in previous work has been largely neglected in favour of the James Bond films. The study also brings new attention to espionage on British television and popular secret agent series such as Spy Trap, Quiller and The Sandbaggers. It also gives attention to the more ‘realistic’ representation of spying in the film and television adaptations of le Carré and Deighton, and other dramas with a more serious intent. In addition, there is wholly original attention given to ‘nostalgic’ spy fictions on screen, adaptations of classic stories of espionage which were popular in the late 1970s and through the 1980s, and to ‘historical’ spy fiction, dramas which treated ‘real’ cases of espionage and their characters, most notably the notorious Cambridge Spies. Detailed attention is also given to the ‘secret state’ thriller, a cycle of paranoid screen dramas in the 1980s which portrayed the intelligence services in a conspiratorial light, best understood as a reaction to excessive official secrecy and anxieties about an unregulated security service. The study is brought up-to-date with an examination of screen espionage in Britain since the end of the Cold War. The approach is empirical and historical. The study examines the production and reception, literary and historical contexts of the films and dramas. It is the first detailed overview of the British spy screen in its crucial period since the 1960s and provides fresh attention to spy films, series and serials never previously considered.

Spymistress

Author	: William Stevenson
Publisher	: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Release Date	: 2011-11-01
ISBN	: 1611452317
Pages	: 384 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Spymistress written by William Stevenson and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best Seller! She was beautiful. She was ruthless. She had a steel trap for a mind and a will of iron. Born Vera Maria Rosenberg in Bucharest, she became Vera Atkins, legendary spy and holder of the Legion of Honor. Recruited by William Stevenson--the spymaster who would later come to be known as "Intrepid"--when she was only twenty-three, Vera spent much of the 1930s running countless perilous espionage missions. When war was declared in 1939, her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and knowledge of several languages quickly propelled her to the leadership echelon of the highly secretive Special Operations Executive (SOE), a covert intelligence agency formed by, and reporting to, Winston Churchill. She recruited and trained several hundred agents, including dozens of women, whose objectives were to penetrate deep behind enemy lines. The stirring exploits and the exemplary courage of the SOE agents and the French Resistance fighters--who in the words of General Dwight D. Eisenhower together "shortened the war by many months"--are justly celebrated. But the central role of Vera Atkins has until now been cloaked in silence. William Stevenson was the only person she trusted to record her life; he kept his promise that he would not publish her story until after her death. Here is the extraordinary account of the woman whose intelligence, beauty, and unflagging dedication proved key in turning the tide of World War II. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.