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Operation Mincemeat - The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II by Ben MacIntyre
Category: Military
Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. This book weaves together private documents, photographs, memories, letters and diaries, as well as material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell the full story of Ope ...Show more
Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre
Category: Military
**Soon to be a major film, starring Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilson, Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs**A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTIONA SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Astonishing ... Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan' Daily Mail'A rollicking read' Max ...Show more
Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre
Category: History
One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War.Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and cer ...Show more
SAS: Rogue Heroes by Ben MacIntyre
Category: Military
In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules- a small undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines. So began the most celebrated and mysterio ...Show more
SAS: Rogue Heroes - Now a major TV drama by Ben Macintyre
Category: Military
From the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre- the first ever authorized history of the SAS'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' - Antony BeevorIn the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentr ...Show more
Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal: by Ben Macintyre
Category: History
Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War.Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and Jam ...Show more
The Spy and the Traitor - The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben MacIntyre
Category: History
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British super ...Show more
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
Category: History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARR 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. I ...Show more