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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 368 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Description
The best-selling author of Operation Mincemeat presents a definitive portrait of the notorious 20th-century spy that discusses his rise in MI6, high-profile intelligence friendships and 20-year espionage operation that culminated in his 1963 defection to Moscow.
"Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War - while...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 567 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
A portrait of the notorious twentieth-century spy discusses his rise in MI6, high-profile intelligence friendships, and twenty-year espionage operation that culminated in his 1963 defection to Moscow.
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xii, 364 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A portrait of the ultimate double agent recounts the exploits of the enigmatic Eddie Chapman, Agent Zigzag, a criminal, con man, and philanderer trained by the Nazis as a spy who became a British agent at the heart of the German Secret Service.
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Formats
Description
"The story of D-Day has been told from many points of view, but never before from the perspectives of the key individuals in the Double Cross system. These include its director (a brilliant, urbane intelligence officer), a colorful assortment of MI5 handlers (as well as their counterparts in Nazi intelligence), and the five spies who formed Double Cross's nucleus: a dashing Serbian playboy, a Polish fighter pilot, a bisexual Peruvian party girl, a...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxi, 582 pages(large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Description
"In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence...
6) Agent Sonya
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
12 CDs (14 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence...
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