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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 430 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters to present a narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent command across France: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
305 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A CIA operative and his CIA sharpshooter wife describe how they unexpectedly fell in love during a mission and the complicated challenges they faced in their shared effort to return to civilian life.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A former American military intelligence officer traces the experiences of five women in her family who were separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years and who endured terrifying Communist rule before being reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xvii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on previously unreleased CIA and State Department records, this real-life story of espionage, misguided idealism, and high treason follows a communist sympathizer who leaked information to the Soviets during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Formats
Description
Facts and Fears Clapper considers such controversial questions as, Is intelligence ethical? Is it moral to intercept communications or to photograph closed societies from orbit? What are the limits of what we should be allowed to do? What protections should we give to the private citizens of the world, not to mention our fellow Americans? Are there times when intelligence officers can lose credibility as unbiased reporters of hard truths by inserting...