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Pub. Date
2009
Description
War is coming to Europe, & French & German operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage battlefield. At the French embassy, the new military attache, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a decorated hero of the 1914 war, is drawn in to a world of abduction, betrayal & intrigue in Warsaw.
2) The fox
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Description
Most weapons do what you tell them. Most weapons you can control. But what if the most dangerous weapon in the world isn't a smart missile or a stealth submarine or even an AI computer programme? What if it's an eighteen-year-old boy with a blisteringly brilliant mind who can run rings around the most sophisticated security services across the globe; who can manipulate that weaponry and turn it against the superpowers themselves? How valuable would...
7) For valour
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Series
A Nick Stone thriller volume 16
Description
When a young trooper is shot in the head at the Regiment's renowned Killing House at the SAS's base in Hereford, Nick Stone is perfectly qualified to investigate the mysterious circumstances more deeply. But less than forty-eight hours later, a second death catapults him into the telescopic sights of an unknown assassin bent on protecting a secret that will strike at the heart of the establishment that Stone has spent most of his life fighting to...
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Behind the events you know are the killers you don't. When diplomacy fails, we're the ones who gear up. Officially we don't exist, but every government in the world uses our services. We've been saving the world, and your ass, for 100 years. Sixteen people have done this job before me. I am 17. The most feared assassin in the world. But to be the best you must beat the best. My next target is 16, just as one day 18 will hunt me down. It's a dog-eat-dog...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, Sorge became a fanatical communist - and the Soviet Union's most formidable spy. Like many great spies, Sorge was an effortless seducer,...
Author
Publisher
Oakhill
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years off the Second World War, never ceases to amaze. No one is better placed to tell the story than Michael Smith, whose number one bestseller 'Station X' was one of the earliest accounts.
Author
Publisher
Old Street
Pub. Date
2010
Description
This is a unique book, written with charm and self-deprecating humour. it is at once a humane, eye-witness account of a Germany reeling from military defeat, a fascinating piece of military and social history, and a wry, moving portrait of the author's first, impossible love.
14) Churchill's war lab: code-breakers, boffins and innovatorsthe mavericks Churchill led to victory
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Description
This text reveals how Churchill's passion for military history, his unique leadership style and his patronization of radical new ideas would lead to new technology and new tactics that would save lives and enable an Allied victory.
15) A strange death
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A gripping tale of betrayal and deception in a hilltop village in 1917 Palestine. Hillel Halkin investigates the fate of an anti-Ottoman spy ring during the First World War and of the people alleged to have betrayed them.
Author
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2021
Description
From the outset of the war, most of Britain felt like a mystery even to those who lived there. All road and railway signs were removed up and down the country to thwart potential enemy spies. An invisible web of cunning spread across the United Kingdom; secret laboratories were hidden in marshes, underground bases were built to conceal key strategic plans and grand country houses became secret and silent locations for eccentric boffins to do their...
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Publisher
Sceptre
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
It's 1941. Imagine you're Winston Churchill. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Supply ships ferrying vital weapons, food and fuel from North America are being torpedoed by the German U-boats. You are lying to the country about the number of ships sunk. You are lying about the number of men killed. Without the supply ships Britain will starve. The tide of the war is turning in Germany's favour. This is the story of the game of battleships that...
Author
Publisher
Amberley
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Conceived by Winston Churchill to circumvent the delays, frustrations and inefficiencies of the service ministries, Department M.D.1. was known as 'Churchill's Toyshop'. This is the story of this relatively unknown establishment and the weapons it developed, which helped to destroy innumerable enemy tanks, aircraft and ships.
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D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force.
Author
Publisher
Sceptre
Pub. Date
2020
Description
It's 1941. Imagine you're Winston Churchill. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Supply ships ferrying vital weapons, food and fuel from North America are being torpedoed by the German U-boats. You are lying to the country about the number of ships sunk. You are lying about the number of men killed. Without the supply ships Britain will starve. The tide of the war is turning in Germany's favour. This is the story of the game of battleships that...