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The Secret World: A History of Intelligence

CHRISTOPHER ANDREW - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

The first-ever detailed, comprehensive history of intelligence, from Moses and Sun Tzu to the present day The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley...
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Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda

Robert Wallace - Dutton
Format: Print book

From two men who know better than anyone how espionage really works, an unprecedented history?heavily illustrated with neverbefore- seen images?of the CIA?s most secretive operations and the gadgets that made them possible. It is a world where the intrigue of reality exceeds that of fiction....
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The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles

Paul B. Janeczko - Candlewick; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From clothesline codes to surveillance satellites and cyber espionage, Paul B. Janeczko uncovers two centuries’ worth of true spy stories in U.S. history.Ever since George Washington used them to help topple the British, spies and their networks have helped and hurt America at key moments...
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Company confessions : the cia, secrecy and memoir writing

Christopher R Moran - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

"A fascinating, readable work. -Robert Wallace, coauthor of" Spycraft "and" The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception"Spies are supposed to keep quiet, never betraying their agents or discussing their operations. Somehow, this doesn t apply to the CIA, whose...
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A Life of Lies and Spies: Tales of a CIA Covert Ops Polygraph Interrogator

Alan B. Trabue - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Alan Trabue chose a bizarre, dangerous way to make a living. In A Life of Lies and Spies, Trabue exposes the often perilous world of polygraphing foreign spies in support of CIA espionage programs. He recounts his incredible, true-life globe-trotting adventures, from his induction in the CIA in 1971...
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Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story

Jack Devine - Sarah Crichton Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"A sophisticated, deeply informed account of real life in the real CIA that adds immeasurably to the public understanding of the espionage culture--the good and the bad." --Bob WoodwardJack Devine ran Charlie Wilson's War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold...
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Modern Spies

How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of an American Civilian Turned Double Agent

Naveed Jamali - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating story of a young American amateur who helped the FBI bust a Russian spy in New York - sold in ten countries and in a major deal to 20th Century Fox.For three nerve-wracking years, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the Russians, trading thumb drives of sensitive technical...
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The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror

Stephen Grey - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The old world of spying-dead-letter boxes, microfilm cameras, an enemy reporting to the Moscow Center, and a hint of sexual blackmail-is history. The spymaster's technique has changed and the enemy has, too. He or she now frequently comes from a culture far removed from Western understanding...
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The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

The thrilling, true-life account of the FBI's hunt for the ingenious traitor Brian Regan - known as the Spy Who Couldn't Spell. Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme...
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Cold War Spies

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart...
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Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History

Joe Navarro - Scribner
Format: Print book

An intense cat-and-mouse game played between two brilliant men in the last days of the Cold War, this shocking insider's story shows how a massive giveaway of secret war plans and nuclear secrets threatened America with annihilation.In 1988 Joe Navarro, one of the youngest agents ever...
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

David E. Hoffman - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA's Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War While...
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The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story

Serhii Plokhy - Basic Books
Format: Print book

"From one of the foremost historians of the former Soviet Union, a nonfiction spy thriller about a KGB assassin whose defection to the West changed the face of Cold War espionage" In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets...
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Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War

Eva Dillon - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer - the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War.In the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon was living in New Delhi with her family...
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Israel-Arab War Spies

Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel

Matti Friedman - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but it's all true. The four spies at the center of this story were part of a ragtag...
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World War II Spies

Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

Larry Loftis - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From internationally bestselling author of the "gripping" (Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Into the Lion's Mouth comes the extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with...
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

Lynne Olson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother...
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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

Sarah Rose - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Churchill believed Britain was locked in an existential...
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A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France

Susan Ottaway - Little, Brown and Company; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The incredible true story of British special agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne, sisters who risked everything to fight for freedom during the Second World War. When elderly recluse Eileen Nearne died, few suspected that the quiet little old lady was a decorated WWII war hero. Volunteering...
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The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

Clare Mulley - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The Untold Story of Britain’s First Female Special Agent of World War II In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising; that she had survived...
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Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day

Stephan Talty - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone secret agent?Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich - and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis....
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover

In Double Cross, New York Times bestselling author Ben Macintyre returns with the untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II, and of the extraordinary spies who achieved it.. On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly...
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Civil War Spies

Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy

Elizabeth R. Varon - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Northern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, historian Elizabeth Varon...
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Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy

Reit, Seymour - Gulliver Books [u.a.]
Format: Paperback

In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, Emma Edmonds cropped her hair, donned men's clothing, and enlisted in the Union Army. Posing in turn as a slave, peddler, washerwoman,...
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Revolutionary War Spies

Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring

Alexander Rose - Bantam; Reprint edition
Format: Book

Turn Washingtons Spies Now a new original series on AMC Basing his tale on remarkable original research, historian Alexander Rose reveals the unforgettable story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and into...
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George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster

John A Nagy - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

George Washington was America's first spymaster, and his skill as a spymaster won the war for independence.George Washington's Secret Spy War is the untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its day in the Revolutionary...
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George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

Brian Kilmeade - Sentinel
Format: Print book

"As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by events that happened in a place I call home, I hope with this book to give the secret six the credit they didn't get in life. The Culper spies represent all the patriotic Americans who give so much for their country but, because of the nature...
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Cryptography

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

JASON FAGONE - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving...
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Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers who helped win World War II

Liza Mundy - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning national bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver...
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Battle Of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II

Stephen Budiansky

A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the Battle of Midway until the last Germ
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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

Judith Schiess Avila - Tantor Audio; Unabridged CD edition
Format: Audio CD

In the 1920s, growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation wasnt easy. There was no electricity or indoor plumbing. The New Mexico summers were hot and the winters harsh. But the beautiful mesas provided bountiful land on which to raise sheep and goats, and the Navajo celebrated...
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** Please note this title is only available in Audiobook at the South Plainfield Public Library. **