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Agent Sonya - Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1945, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she w ...Show more
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$26.00 NZD
Category: Military history
In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her rati ...Show more
Agent Zigzag - The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman - Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2007 As read on Radio 4 Film rights optioned by New Line Cinema. One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agen ...Show more
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy (reissued): The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy (reissued) by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military history | Reading Level: near fine
One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villai ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
The bestselling historian with the real story of WW2's 'inescapable' Nazi prison camp In a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop, an unlikely band of prisoners plotted a daring escape from the clutches of their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchanged and unchallenged for 70 years. ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more
Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies: The True Story of The D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
$21.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: near fine
D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit...At the heart of the deception was the 'Double Cross System', a team of double agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeede ...Show more
Josiah The Great: True Story Of The Man Who Would Be King by Ben Macintyre
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King is the amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early 19th-century American adventurer who forged his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. In 1838 a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American fl ...Show more
Operation Mincemeat - The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II by Ben MacIntyre
$39.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
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
SAS: Rogue Heroes - Now a major TV drama by Ben Macintyre
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military history
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
$25.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$26.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good
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
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