Srishti Publishers, 2007. — 344 p. Khushwant Singh wrote in the preface to the hardbound edition published in 1990 of this true account of Mohanlal Bhaskar’s mission to find out about Pakistan’s nuclear plans: ‘He was betrayed by one of his colleagues, presumably a double agent, and had to face the music on his own. The interrogation, which was done by the army and police,...
Aleph Book Company, 2017. — 368 p. Bhagat Ram Talwar, a Hindu Pathan from the Northwest Frontier Province of British India, was the only quintuple spy of World War II, spying for Britain, Italy, Germany, Japan and the USSR. His exploits and the people he worked with were truly remarkable. His spying missions saw him walk back and forth 24 times from Peshawar to Kabul eluding...
Little Company, 2019. — 302 p. This is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you’ve never heard of—as told to the author by the woman herself. At the outbreak of World War Two, Nancy Wake’s glamorous life in the South of France seemed far removed from the fighting. But when her husband was called up for military service, Nancy felt she had just as much of a duty to fight...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. — 416 p. In the 1930s Tom Burns was a rising star of British publishing, whose friends and authors included G. K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, the artist Eric Gill and the poet David Jones. And among his glittering social circle he had set his heart on the beautiful Ann Bowes-Lyon, cousin of the Queen. When war was declared in 1939,...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. — 592 p. Once an untouchable member of England's establishment—a world-famous art historian and a man knighted by the Queen of England—in a single stroke Anthony Blunt became an object of universal hatred when, in 1979, Margaret Thatcher exposed him as a Soviet spy. In Anthony Blunt: His Lives, Miranda Carter shows how one man lived out opposing...
Crown Publishing Group, 2009. — 304 p. Marthe Cohn was in her late teens when Hitler was rising to power. Living across the German border in Alsace-Lorraine, her family began taking in Jews who were fleeing the Nazis, as well as the Jewish children being sent away by terrified parents. Soon her own homeland was under Nazi rule, and she and her parents, brothers, and sisters...
Pegasus Books, 2010. — 496 p. — ISBN: 1605980978; ISBN13: 9781605980973. After eight challenging years in Afghanistan, the new U.S. strategy, aimed at winning hearts and minds rather than search-and-destroy, refocuses the conflict on Special Forces: unorthodox soldiers who work outside of traditional military forces to combine secret military operations with nation building....
Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013. — 244 p. — ISBN: 0847841294; ISBN13: 9780847841295. A life of glamour and tragedy, set against the watershed cultural and political movements of twentieth-century Europe. "Toto" Koopman (1908–1991) is a new addition to the set of iconoclastic women whose biographies intrigue and inspire modern-day readers. Like her contemporaries Lee Miller or Vita...
Gallery Books, 2019. — 384 p. The year is 1942, and World War II is in full swing. Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father’s footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. Five failed attempts and one plane crash later, she finally lands in occupied France to begin her mission. It is here that she meets her commanding officer...
Biteback Publishing, 2016. — 480 p. Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was the supreme networker of his age. His contacts provided him with so many hard facts and so much insider gossip that his Moscow masters found it difficult to keep up with the flow of material. Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert, who obtained the first recording of Burgess's voice from FBI files, have now discovered...
Dundurn Press, 2004. — 416 p. Juan Pujol, a young Spanish antifascist, became agent GARBO, a master of deception and intrigue. His story contains all the hallmarks of classic spy adventure - enciphered messages, secret inks, items concealed in cakes - culminating in one of the greatest strategic deceptions in history. Through a ring of invented subagents, GARBO and his MI5...
John Blake, 2018. — 416 p. The official, never before told, account of Brooks's wartime service as an undercover agent. After the war, he continued to serve with MI6, and so was constrained not to relate any of his experiences. His is an exciting story; time and again he was faced by danger and incipient disaster. He brushed shoulders with some of the worst traitors of the Second...
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2000. — 400 с. — (Досье) — ISBN 5-224-00545-0. Книга «Разведчицы и шпионки-2» — логическое продолжение книги «Разведчицы и шпионки». Перед читателями пройдет новая плеяда разведчиц, действовавших в иные времена, в иных странах и условиях. Здесь нет ни одной выдуманной истории, но сама правда о жизни этих женщин необычнее и увлекательнее рожденного авторской...
Москва: АСТ, 2007. — 278 с. Какая разница между разведчиком и шпионом? Чем же прославилась Мата Хари? Кто украл атомную бомбу? Как стать «человеком-невидимкой»? На эти и многие другие вопросы отвечает книга, посвященная самым известным шпионам и разведчикам XX века.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2021. — 236 с. — ISBN 978-5-227-09473-5. В книге рассказывается о попытке трех спецслужб — КГБ, ЦРУ и западногерманской БНД — получить доступ к картотеке агентурных архивов МГБ ГДР. События разворачиваются в 1989–1990 гг. в Германии. Автор в это время работал в Берлине собкором газеты «Труд», был очевидцем описываемых событий и лично знал некоторых их...
М.: Алгоритм, 2018. — 111 с. — ISBN 978-5-907120-16-7. Книга написана по материалам оперативного дела № 7246 «Недайкаша Василий» Службы внешней разведки Украины. События, о которых пойдёт речь, относятся к середине 1930-х годов. В качестве главного героя в них представлен бывший начальник 1 секции 2-го разведывательного отдела Главного штаба Военного министерства...
Толковый раздел, показывающий многообразие книг, где раскрыты некоторые тайны работы разведки и контрразведки (полностью эти тайны они не раскроют никогда) различных стран мира в различные временные эпохи. Полезно знать хотя бы часть из того, что в этих книгах написано. К сожалению в наших учебниках истории очень мало освещается деятельность спецслужб, хотя налогоплательщики исправно платят налоги в казну, а правительство исправно отчисляет для работы спецслужб определенные суммы...
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