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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original series on AMC
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations...
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York William Tryon and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington...
3) Edge of war
Author
Series
Red dragon rising volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
Eight years after immigrating to the United States, German born Lukas Ley embodies the American dream: successful athlete, gorgeous girlfriend, loving family. But beneath the surface, eighteen year old Lukas is driven by ambition, resolved to avenge the murder of his father at the hands of the Nazi regime. Unfortunately, a failed physical throws his plans for flight school off course. Unlike his war-hero older brother, Lukass purpose is unclear. He...
Author
Series
Heirs of Falcon Point volume 1
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
The Nazis have taken control of Austria, and wealthy widower Leopold Lang faces a difficult decision: join the ranks of the foreign power that has taken over his homeland or flee with his children to safety. Leopold makes his choice--but too late. His family is ripped apart, never to be reunited. But decades later, fate brings together the descendants of this broken dynasty in the place where it all began--Falcon Point. Anna, Cole, and Tess have never...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
OSS officer Bastien Ley assumes a dead Nazi officer's identity to infiltrate the Nazi ranks in Rome, but when Bastien's assignment becomes extremely stressful, his superiors send him a reinforcement in the form of the lovely Gracie Begni, an intelligent, eager, and completely inexperienced radio operator.
8) Scarecrow
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The newest action thriller from the author of the bestselling Ice Station and Area 7 marks the return of Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield in his fastest, most nail-biting challenge yet. It is the greatest bounty hunt in history. The targets are the finest warriors in the world-commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each. Among the names, one stands out-an enigmatic Marine...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles have been stolen from a US Army base in Northern Ireland. His “uncle” Ike Eisenhower sends Billy to recover the weapons, which might be used in a German-sponsored IRA uprising. Bodies begin to accumulate as Billy finds unexpected challenges to his Boston-Irish upbringing and IRA sympathies. There are rogues on both sides, he learns.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Joining the ranks of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and Boys in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the U.S. Army to play a key role in the Allied victory.
In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000
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Language
English
Description
Traces America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the years since 9/11, and how the U.S. efforts in the Afghan War faltered because of a failure to understand the intentions of Pakistan's intelligence agency.
Author
Series
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
OSS worker Genevieve Olivier, devastated by the news of Peter Eddy's disappearance during a suicide mission in Nazi-occupied Bosnia, searches for information that would help find the man she loves. But her work as a courier soon escalates into a counterintelligence duel with a Fascist assassin -- and Genevieve is his newest target.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the story of the six double agents--Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo--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.
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of the 15,000 immigrants and refugees who used their native language skills and knowledge of their home countries to help America to victory in World War II. Beverley Driver Eddy tells their story thoroughly and colorfully, drawing heavily on interviews with surviving Ritchie Boys"--
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
June, 1944. After narrowly escaping her Nazi captors, French Resistance worker Genevieve Olivier is called upon to resume a life of danger as a French spy. Meanwhile American Lieutenant Peter Eddy -- who helped Genevieve escape the Nazis -- is miles away, deep in the Carpathian Mountains with an elite special-ops team that harbors a Nazi traitor.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
May, 1915. As a dangerous ring of spies and saboteurs threatens to turn the war against the Allies, Frenchman and British operative Julian Olivier discovers goodness in his enemies' hearts. But even if he survives, will he ever be reunited with the woman whose memory he can't erase? Will Canadian airborn hero Warren Flynn survive the war, and will the Allies' newest operative, Evette, unearth the infiltrator in her own Parisian territory before it's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, the U.S. government began both a ground and aerial military campaign in the Middle East in order to preemptively rout out terrorists. During the War on Terror, the cause of the United States and its allies was aided by many technical innovations in code breaking and espionage. In fact, increased surveillance went so far as to spy on regular citizens....
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Language
English
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Description
"The true story of socialite spy Marguerite Harrison, who slipped behind enemy lines in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars. Foreign correspondent. Author. Filmmaker. Spy. Marguerite Harrison was born into Gilded Age American privilege and launched a successful career as a culture writer for the Baltimore Sun as a young widow. But when America entered World War I, Harrison secretly applied for a position in intelligence....
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