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Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
113 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of espionage, covering famous male and female spies of the past, techniques and equipment, various disguises and ruses used by spies to avoid detection, and the spying methods of the future.
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
Ecco
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 388 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. This book unveils the defining and most dangerous operations that have shaped Israel and the world at large from the agency's more than sixty-year history, among them: the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the eradication of Black September, the destruction of the Syrian nuclear facility, and the elimination of key Iranian...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 672 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin's means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, during, and after the Cold War. There was nothing "unprecedented" about Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. It was simply business as usual, new means used for old ends. The Cold War started long before...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiv, 448 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both the CIA and the NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and momentous change For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats. Otherwise, by playing back, you may protect yourself, but you will be less successful in protecting America. "Play to the edge" was Hayden's...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 474 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blum's gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American soil during World War I, and the NYPD Inspector who helped uncover the plot--the basis for the film to be produced by and starring Bradley Cooper. When a "neutral"...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xi, 467 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For decades now, America’s national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.
Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 380 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal quest gone wrong? Only when Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest embarks on his own investigation does a picture emerge: of the FBI's exploitation of US citizens through a secretive intelligence program, a young man's lust for adventure within the world's conflicts,...
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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 575 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 92 pages. : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"During the Cold War, dissent against U.S. international policy was looked upon as inherently suspicious. No one was more suspicious than outspoken left-leaning intellectuals, especially those who lived in Manhattan. For national security reasons, the federal government expended considerable resources surveilling men and women who might harbor communist sympathies and exert influence over others. In this book, John Rodden reveals how the FBI and CIA...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 452 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helped transform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated...