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The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
CHRISTOPHER ANDREW - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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"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
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Cold War Spies
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
David E. Hoffman - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover
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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
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"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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Israel-Arab War Spies
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Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Matti Friedman - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy
Reit, Seymour - Gulliver Books [u.a.]
Format: Paperback
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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
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Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
Alexander Rose - Bantam; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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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
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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
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"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
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Battle Of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II
Stephen Budiansky
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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
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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. **
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