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Elena Standish 2Reynolds, Nicholas (Nicholas E.)
Summary: "The entire vast, modern American intelligence system--the amalgam of three-letter spy services of many stripes--can be traced back to the dire straits the world faced at the dawn of World War II. Prior to 1940, the United States had no organization to recruit spies and steal secrets or launch covert campaigns against enemies overseas and just a few codebreakers, isolated in windowless vaults....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 ReynoldsGraham, Elyse
Summary: "The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today's CIA, was quickly formed--and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 GrahamVogel, Steve
Summary: The author presents the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War--and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War--and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. Its code name was "Operation Gold," a wildly audacious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.127 Vogel 2019Devine, Jack
Summary: "A master class in spycraft from one of its greatest practitioners. Jack Devine is one of the legendary spymasters of our time. He was in Chile when Allende fell; he ran Charlie Wilson's war in Afghanistan; he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it; he caught Pablo Escobar in Colombia; he tried to warn George Tenet that there was a bullet coming from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.127 DevineAnderson, Scott
Summary: "At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing--seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear--to some--that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. The American government's strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly-formed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 AndersonMacintyre, Ben
Summary: Recounts the story of the six double agents--Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle, Garbo, and a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is revealed here for the first time--who would weave a web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitler's army and helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety on 6 June 1944, D-Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.542 MacIntSummary: Presents the story of Manhattan Project scientist Ted Hall, who shared classified nuclear secrets with Russia in an effort to save the world from nuclear annihilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 940 CompaWeiner, Tim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.040 WeinerOlson, Lynne
Summary: "The little-known story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II ... In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast intelligence organization--the only woman to serve as a chef de résistance during the war. Strong-willed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 Olson 2019Perry, Anne
Summary: Britain's secret service, MI6, has lost contact with its informant in northern Italy, just as important intel about the future plans of Austria and Nazi Germany is coming to light. To her surprise, Elena Standish is the only one who can recognize MI6's man-- because he's her former lover, Aiden Strother. Elena heads to Trieste to track down Aiden and hears word of a secret group working to put...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYSTERY PerryKershaw, Alex.
Summary: "The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during the Second World War. The leafy Avenue de Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.534 KershaHarmon, Mark
Summary: Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Select 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HarmonDelmont, Matthew F.
Summary: "The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022