London: Hurst and Company, 2017. — 297 p. — ISBN: 9781849046978 Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Ruzi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberation of Central Asia from Russian rule, his life was a series of adventures and narrow...
Crown Publishers, 1969. — 192 p. Elie Cohn was hanged from a hook in Martyrs' Square, Damascus, and his body, draped in a white robe, was left hanging for six hours in public view. The execution was carried live, from beginning to end, by Syrian television, and in Israel a pale woman tensely followed every scene, heard every imprecation hurled by the announcer and the frenzied...
Aleph Book Company, 2017. — 368 p. Bhagat Ram Talwar, a Hindu Pathan from the Northwest Frontier Province of British India, was the only quintuple spy of World War II, spying for Britain, Italy, Germany, Japan and the USSR. His exploits and the people he worked with were truly remarkable. His spying missions saw him walk back and forth 24 times from Peshawar to Kabul eluding...
Putnam Adult, 2008. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0399154396; ISBN13: 9780399154393. Spymaster, defector, double agent-the remarkable true story of the man who ran Russia's post-Cold War spy program in America. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, the Cold War ended, and a new world order began. We thought everything had changed. But one thing never changed: the spies. From 1997 to 2000, a...
Little Brown and Company, 2000. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0316639702; ISBN13: 9780316639705. Major Kavan Elliott, a celebrated hero dropped blind into Serbia in 1942 on a mission for Special Operations Executive and who spent much of the war in a Nazi prison camp -- was he a courageous daredevil or a philandering scoundrel?Geoffrey Elliott's meticulous research led him across Europe,...
Pegasus Books, 2010. — 496 p. — ISBN: 1605980978; ISBN13: 9781605980973. After eight challenging years in Afghanistan, the new U.S. strategy, aimed at winning hearts and minds rather than search-and-destroy, refocuses the conflict on Special Forces: unorthodox soldiers who work outside of traditional military forces to combine secret military operations with nation building....
Third Impression. — Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1917. — 295 p. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a...
Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013. — 244 p. — ISBN: 0847841294; ISBN13: 9780847841295. A life of glamour and tragedy, set against the watershed cultural and political movements of twentieth-century Europe. "Toto" Koopman (1908–1991) is a new addition to the set of iconoclastic women whose biographies intrigue and inspire modern-day readers. Like her contemporaries Lee Miller or Vita...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2016. — 205 p. Heroes to some, traitors to others, spies and intelligence officers continue to fascinate and enthrall us with their abilities to operate secretly in the shadows. With these mini-biographies of twenty agents of various nationalities (including members of the DGSE, KGB, CIA, MI6 and Mossad), Patrick Pesnot and 'Mr X' bring the reader as...
ISBN: 0060817283, 0060817313; 2007 ; 464 p. In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later, she was tried and executed, charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior Allied officers and government officials, even the French minister of war, she had a sharp...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 412 p. — eISBN: 978-1-62914-360-6 "A Man Called Intrepid" is partly an account of Canadian-born spymaster William Stephenson's central role in the development of the British-American intelligence system during WW2; and partly a revelation of the absolutely critical role that intelligence services (e.g. code-breaking, espionage, and sabotage) played...
Da Capo Press, 2003. — 448 p. This is the story of the larger-than-life figure who was Robert Maxwell. At the height of his success his public persona was constantly turned towards the limelight and his later fall from grace during the Mirror pensions scandal was well documented. Maxwell's sudden, suspicious death resulted in much speculation, but there were few facts available...
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