By Faith, Not by Sight: The Inspirational Story of a Blind Prodigy, a Life-Threatening Illness, and an Unexpected Gift, Macintyre Scott

Автор: Macintyre Ben
Название: Spy Among Friends
ISBN: 1408851784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408851784
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all.

This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and Washington; of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. With access to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen family papers, and with the cooperation of former officers of MI6 and the CIA, this definitive biography unlocks what is perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War.

Автор: Ben Macintyre
Название: Napoleon of Crime, the
ISBN: 0006550622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006550624
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyle`s Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes` arch-rival. From the bestselling author of `Operation Mincemeat` and `Agent Zigzag`.

Автор: Ben Macintyre
Название: Foreign Field, A
ISBN: 0006531717 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006531715
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War. Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height of the fighting on the Western front in August 1914; unable to get back to their units, they shelter in the tiny French village of Villeret. Living in daily fear of capture and execution, they are fed, clothed and protected by the villagers including the local matriarch, Madame Dessenne, the baker and his wife. The self-styled leader of the band of fugitives, Private Robert Digby, falls in love with the twenty-year-old-daughter of one of his protectors and in November 1915, with war waging a few miles away, she gives birth to a baby girl. The child is just six months old when someone betrays the men to the Germans. They are captured, tried as spies and summarily condemned to death. Using the testimonies of the daughter, the villagers, detailed town hall records and most movingly -- the soldiers' last letters -- Ben Macintyre reconstructs an extraordinarily story of love, duplicity and shame -- ultimately seeking to discover through decades of village rumour the answer to the question, 'Who betrayed Private Digby and his men?'

Автор: Ben Macintyre
Название: Operation Mincemeat
ISBN: 1408809214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408809211
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II. One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of WWII. Operation Mincemeat was one of the most successful deceptions ever attempted. It would cause chaos by sending Nazi troops hurtling in the wrong direction and saved 1000`s of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any who came before or since. He was dead....