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Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
[2012].
Language
English
Description
Describes the subversive tactics of Richmond socialite Elizabeth Van Lew to help the Union army during the Civil War, including her work with freed slaves, her connections to Jefferson Davis, and her missions for Ulysses S. Grant.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Clint Emerson is the only SEAL ever inducted into the International Spy Museum. Operating from the shadows, with an instinct for running towards trouble, his unique skill set made him the perfect hybrid operator. Emerson spent his career on the bleeding edge of intelligence and operations, often specializing in missions that took advantage of subterfuge, improvisation, the best in recon and surveillance tech to combat the changing global battlefield....
Author
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
Series
Publisher
Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A historical account of espionage during the Revolutionary War, including famous spies such as Nathan Hale, covert missions, and technologies that influenced the course of the conflict"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact...
70) Spies in the CIA
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An early reader's guide to CIA spies, introducing American espionage history, famous agents such as Aldrich Ames, technology such as spy satellites, and the dangers all spies face"--
Author
Series
Brides of Laurent volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On assignment to help America win the War of 1812, Evan MacManus is taken prisoner by Brielle Durand-the key defender of her people's secret French settlement in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. But when his mission becomes at odds with his growing appreciation of Brielle and the villagers, does he dare take a risk on the path his heart tells him is right?"-"--
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"James Jesus Angleton was the master - a legend in the time of spies, the founder of U.S. counterintelligence, and a ruthless hunter of America's enemies. Spytime is a fictional account of Angleton's life, from his involvement behind the lines in World War II to the waning days of the Cold War. A stunning re-creation of perilous times, it is also a masterful revelation of an obsessed man whose name became synonymous with skullduggery and subterfuge."...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East." --Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker. "Robert Baer [was] one of the most talented Middle East case officers of the past twenty years." -Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Atlantic Monthly. In See No Evil, one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. In the process, Robert Baer...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When Franks' father began slipping into dementia, he began finally to speak about a part of his life he had always kept hidden. Franks knew her father had served in World War II, but she never suspected the truth--that he was a spy who risked his life behind enemy lines (in the guise of an SS officer) and, near the end of the war, visited one of the first concentration camps liberated by the Allies.
79) Civil War spies
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A historical account of espionage during the American Civil War, including famous spies such as Elizabeth Van Lew, covert missions, and technologies that influenced the course of the conflict"--
80) Keeping secrets
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who takes refuge with the Kelly family in Missouri after fleeing the attack on Lawrence, Kansas, by William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders.