Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany

The Autobiography Of The Woman The Gestapo Called The White Mouse

Nancy Wake · 206 pages

The Spy Wore Red

Aline, Countess of Romanones · 326 pages

Eastern Approaches

Fitzroy MacLean · 576 pages

Eastern Approaches is Maclean's classic, gripping account of the sybaritic delights of diplomatic life, the thrill of remote travel in the then-forbidden zones of Central Asia, and the violence and adventure of world-changing tours in North Africa and Yugoslavia. Maclean is the original British action hero and this is blistering reading.

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

Jan Karski · 391 pages

Jan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews by the German Nazis, this volume is a remarkable testimony of one man’s courage and a nation’s struggle for re

The House on Garibaldi Street,

Isser Harel · 289 pages

Adolph Eichmann was found by the Israeli Security Services: he was one of the greatest Nazi criminals together with the Nazi leaders, for what they called "The Final Solution of the Jewish Problem."

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945

Leo Marks · 613 pages

The Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British WW2 group infiltrating Reich-dominated Europe, had during the War's early and middle years a continuing problem in certain parts of France. They would train new agents, drop them into French territory, note their contact with a local agent... and they were lost, presumed captured or killed. Two things needed to happen fast: first, a new network h

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.

Family Of Spies

Christine Kuehn

The story of a family that worked as Japanese and Nazi spies during World War II.

Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe

Simone Arnold Liebster · 305 pages

This is the memoirs of a young girl in Nazi Germany and the trials she faces. First her mother is taken to a concentration, then her father is taken to a different camp. She is then taken to what is supposed to be a girls' school. She is faced with the choice of giving up her religion or facing the consequences. She faces many horrible results, but still clings to faith. However, she was not

Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent

Hal Vaughan

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,

Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my Fight for Freedom

Sam Pivnik · 320 pages

Sam Pivnik is a survivor of a world that no longer exists - on 14 occasions, he should have been killed. On his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived two ghettoes and 6 months on Auschwitz's notorious Rampkommando where prisoners were either sent to camp or gassed. After this, he was sent to work at the brutal Furstengrube mining camp. As the Third Reich collapsed, he was only one o

Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler: A True Love Story Rediscovered

Trudi Kanter · 257 pages

"Vienna, 1938: Trudi Miller, young, beautiful and chic, designs hats for the smartest women in the city. She is falling in love with Walter, a charming and charismatic businessman. But their idyll is about to end. Trudiand Walter are Jewish, and as Hitler's tanks roll into Austria, Trudi immediately realises they have to flee. [This book] is [a ...] true story that moves from Vienna to Prague to b

The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story

Robert B. Baer, Dayna Baer · 312 pages

Inside the CIA, Robert Baer was known as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his personal life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice--he had few non-work friendships, his prolonged absences destroyed his marriage, and he felt intense guilt at spending so little time with his children. Dayna Willia

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

Miklos Nyiszli · 160 pages

See work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15671648W

Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

Marie Jalowicz Simon · 358 pages

"Shortly before her death in 1998, her son, Hermann Simon, director of the New Synagogue Berlin, Centrum Judaicum Foundation, recorded Marie [Jalowicz Simon] telling her story. Underground in Berlin was put together by the author Irene Stratenwerth and Hermann Simon from those tapes"--Jacket of first US edition.

Escape from Auschwitz

Rudolf Vrba, Alan Bestic · 359 pages

Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank

Eva Schloss, Evelyn Julia Kent · 224 pages

In March 1938 the Germans invaded Austria and young Eva Geiringer and her family became refugees. Like many jews they fled to Amsterdam where they hid from the Nazis until they were betrayed and arrested in 1944. Eva was 15 years old when she was sent to Auschwitz - the same age as her friend Anne Frank. Together with her mother she endured the daily degradation that robbed so many of their lives

Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land

Sara Nomberg-Przytyk · 191 pages

"From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness." With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past wh

Lusia's Long Journey Home: A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust

Lucy Lipiner · 203 pages

"The summer of 1939 turned out to be the last summer of author Lucy Lipiner's childhood. On September 1, when she was six years old, her parents roused her and her older sister from their beds and, with other relatives in tow, fled their town of Sucha and the invasion by Nazi Germany."--P. [4] of cover.

The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir

Benjamin Jacobs · 239 pages

This book is unique among Holocaust memoirs. It is the story of Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs), a Jewish dental student who in 1941 was deported from his Polish Village to a Nazi labor camp and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the last days of the war. Shunted between labor camps and concentration camps by cattle car and forced marches, Jakubowicz was interned in Buchenwald and Dora

Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House

Valerie Plame Wilson · 411 pages

The woman at the center of the Bush administration's CIA leak scandal breaks her silence as she describes her role as an undercover CIA operative, her training and experiences, her efforts to protect her children, and her battle with the CIA to reveal the truth.

Commandant Of Auschwitz

Rudolf Hoss, Primo Levi · 281 pages

Rudolf Hoess was the notorious Commandant of Auschwitz. Imprisoned and awaiting execution after the war, Hoess wrote a long memoir, a self-serving account of his life and approaches to management. The amoral sensibility Hoess displayed regarding all that went on in the charnel factory where the industrialization of death was practiced--where probably 3 million people were literally worked to death

Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp

Helga Weiss · 248 pages

Helga's Diary is a young girl's remarkable first-hand account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II. The drawings and paintings that Helga made during her time in Terezin, which accompany this diary, were published in 1998 in the book Draw What You See (Zeichne, was Du siehst).