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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Operation Mincemeat Operation Mincemeat Ben Macintyre Ben Macintyre's Agent Zigzag was hailed as "rollicking, spellbinding" (New York Times), "wildly improbable but entirely true" (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, "the best book ever written" (… OL15165816W
Bomb Bomb Steve Sheinkin In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific rac… OL16216256W
A Very Principled Boy A Very Principled Boy Bradley, Mark A. Duncan Chaplin Lee was a Rhodes Scholar, patriot, and descendent of one of America's most distinguished families—and possibly the best-placed mole ever to infiltrate U.S. intelligence operations. In … OL16819484W
Breaking the silence Breaking the silence Walter Laqueur "The story of Eduard Schulte, the German industrialist who risked everything to oppose the Nazis and was the first to tell the world of the fate of the Jews in Hitler's Europe"--Jacket. OL1914397W
Code name Pauline Code name Pauline Pearl Witherington Cornioley "The as yet unpublished memoirs for young adults of the only female SOE agent to lead a French Resistance network during World War II"-- OL19968337W
Madame Fourcade's Secret War Madame Fourcade's Secret War Lynne Olson From Penguin/Random House: *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 o… OL20161094W
The Hut Six Story The Hut Six Story Gordon Welchman The men and women of Bletchley Park, who repeatedly broke German military cyphers throughout the Second World War, made an incalculable contribution to the allied success. This book, written by one o… OL2112420W
Daring Missions of World War II Daring Missions of World War II William Breuer x, 237 pages : 24 cm OL25870990W
Ike's spies Ike's spies Richard H. Immerman,Stephen E. Ambrose An account of the transformation of the wartime Office of Strategic Services into the Central Intelligence Agency and the growth of America's intelligence community. OL478560W
Deceptions of World War II Deceptions of World War II William B. Breuer Critical acclaim for William B. Breuer "A first-class historian." -The Wall Street Journal Top Secret Tales of World War II "A book for rainy days and long solitary nights by the fire. If t… OL934213W