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The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
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Andrew Hodges · 592 pages
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A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
Jennet Conant · 395 pages
A stunning account of Julia Child's early life as an OSS agent in the Far East.
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
Nicholas Reynolds · 384 pages
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
Clare Mulley · 453 pages
Explores the life and career of one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated special agents, whose gathered intelligence and courage provided a significant contribution to the Allied war effort in World War II.
Spy Princess: The Life Of Noor Inayat Khan
Shrabani Basu
The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure & Betrayal
Howard Blum · 518 pages
Time magazine called her "the Mata Hari of Minnesota"; OSS Chief general "Wild Bill" Donovan called her "the greatest unsung heroine of the war." But for decades, the extent of Betty Pack's achievements as an agent during World War II, first for Britain's MI6 and then for America's OSS, remained classified. Now, the truth about this femme fatale--her dangerous liaisons and death-defying missions,
Wild Bill Donovan
Douglas C. Waller · 473 pages
"A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, 'Wild Bill' Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency) and the father of today's CIA. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before."--from cover p. [2].
The Imitation Game
Jim Ottaviani, Leland Purvis · 240 pages
A biography of the mathematician, reveals the story of an eccentric genius, Olympic-class runner, and groundbreaking theoretician whose work is still influencing the science and telecommunication systems of the modern world.
Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent
Hal Vaughan
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Ben Macintyre · 384 pages
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began.In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman
Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue
Kathryn J. Atwood · 266 pages
Family Of Spies
Christine Kuehn
The story of a family that worked as Japanese and Nazi spies during World War II.
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Lisa Rogak · 240 pages
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero
William Kalush, Larry Sloman · 608 pages
After years of struggling on the dime museum circuit, Harry Houdini got a break that put him on the front page of a Chicago newspaper. Soon Houdini was performing for royalty, commanding vast sums, and exploring the new power of Hollywood. At a time when spy agencies frequently co-opted amateurs, Houdini developed a relationship with a man who would later run MI-5. For the next several years, the
17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History
Andrew Morton · 384 pages
This book is a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II. Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasi
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard · 368 pages
General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. "Killing Patton" takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton's tragic demise, naming names of the m
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Kai Bird · 448 pages
Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East. The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important oper
Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius For Deception 1914–1945
Nicholas Rankin · 480 pages
The Spy Wore Red
Aline, Countess of Romanones · 326 pages
Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America
Stephen H. Case, Mark Jacob · 288 pages
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Neal Bascomb · 258 pages
This narrative nonfiction adaptation of HUNTING EICHMANN chronicles the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution.