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• A Covert Affair

  Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS

  Conant, Jennet

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  Julia Child's passion for French cuisine began when she and her husband, Paul, moved to Paris in 1948. The couple met in Ceylon in 1944 when both were in the Office of Strategic Services, precursor to the CIA, and they married two years later. To…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

  Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

  Kahler, Abbott, 1973-

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  The never-before-told story of four real-life women who risked everything to take on a life of espionage during the Civil War.

• A Spy Among Friends

  Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

  Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

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  Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War - while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Secret Agent

  My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines

  Latour, Pippa, 1921-2023,

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  After decades of silence, the last surviving World War II British spy reveals the real, untold story of her time as a secret agent in the deadly world of Nazi France. From a unique and singular voice comes the incredible true story of the last…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Russian Roulette

  How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution

  Milton, Giles,

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  In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II, a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spies in the Family

  An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War

  Dillon, Eva,

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  The true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War, told from the first-person perspective of Eva Dillon, the daughter of one of these spies. With impeccable insider access to both families as well as CIA officers,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Moscow Rules

  the Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War

  Mendez, Antonio J.,

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  Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns, and tapped their phones.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Code Name Blue Wren

  the True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy--and the Sister She Betrayed

  Popkin, Jim,

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  Like spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen before her, Ana Montes blindsided her colleagues with brazen acts of treason. For nearly 17 years, Montes succeeded in two high-stress jobs. By day, she was one of the government's top Cuba experts, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Quiet Americans

  Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts

  Anderson, Scott, 1959-

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  Anderson chronicles the exploits of four spies: Michael Burke, Frank Wisner, Peter Sichel, and Edward Lansdale. The four ran covert operations across the globe, trying to outwit the ruthless KGB in Berlin, parachuting commandos into Eastern Europe,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nazi Spy Ring in America

  Hitler's Agents, the FBI, and the Case That Stirred the Nation

  Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri,

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  The Nazi Spy Ring in America explores the operations and downfall of spy networks of the German Abwehr that operated in New York between 1935 and 1938 to steal military technology and map American defenses. The arrest and prosecution of four members…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Coffee With Hitler

  the Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis

  Spicer, Charles,

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  Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding story of how a handful of amateur British intelligence agents wined, dined, and befriended the leading National Socialists between the wars. With support from royalty, aristocracy, politicians, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sisterhood

  the Secret History of Women at the CIA

  Mundy, Liza, 1960-

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  The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lost Son

  An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

  Forrest, Brett,

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  When a young American named Billy Reilly vanished into Russia's war with Ukraine, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal quest gone…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Washington's Spies

  the Story of America's First Spy Ring

  Rose, Alexander, 1971-

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  In the summer of 1778, General Washington needed to know where the British would strike next. To that end, he unleashed an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy's battle plans. Washington's band included a young…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Enemies

  a History of the FBI

  Weiner, Tim

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  Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America's police force. But…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wise Gals

  the Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

  Holt, Nathalia, 1980-

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA--women who helped create the template for cutting-edge…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spy and the Traitor

  the Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

  Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

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  Oleg Gordievsky was a spy like no other. The product of a KGB family and the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Russian eventually saw the lies and terror of the regime for what they were, a realization that turned him irretrievably…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Espionage

  a Concise History

  Macrakis, Kristie,

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  A concise history of espionage. Going beyond the traditional accounts of espionage that focus on military and diplomatic intelligence collected by humans, the book also includes chapters on industrial espionage as well as the new techno-spy.