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A Foreign Field by Ben MacIntyre
Category: Biography Memoir
A romance and murder mystery reconstructed through letters and testimony. During WWI, four soldiers find shelter in a French village, but love is the catalyst for betrayal and execution. Years later, the quest to find who betrayed the men reveals a story of love, duplicity, and shame. (Preceeding tex ...Show more
A Foreign Field by BEN MACINTYRE
Category: History
A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zig-Zag'. Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height of the fighting on the Western Front in Augu ...Show more
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
Category: Biography
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story. 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--wh ...Show more
A Spy Among FriendsKim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
Category: History
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 Ja ...Show more
Agent Sonya - Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben MacIntyre
Category: History
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944, a thin, and unusually elegant, housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pe ...Show more
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
Category: Military
In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her rati ...Show more
Agent Sonya - Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
Category: History
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1945, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she w ...Show more
Agent Sonya - Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Large Print) by Ben Macintyre
Category: Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "master storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind one of the Cold War's most intrepid spies. "[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account."--The Washington Post ONE OF THE BE ...Show more
Agent Sonya - Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (US Ed) by Ben Macintyre
Category: History
The "master storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind the Cold War's most intrepid female spy.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNALIn 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a t ...Show more
Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre
Category: History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDSA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Best Book of 2007One of the Top 10 Best Books of 2007 (Entertainment Weekly)New York Times Best of the Year Round-UpNew York Times Editors' Choice Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, ...Show more
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre
Category: Biography Memoir
Eddie Chapman: rogue, criminal, confidence trickster, hero to both sides and betrayer of all. At the start of the Second World War, Chapman was recruited by the German Secret Service. He was a highly prized Nazi agent. He was also a secret spy for Britain, alias Agent Zigzag. "Agent Zigzag" is the untol ...Show more
Agent Zigzag - The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman - Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre
Category: Biography
Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2007 As read on Radio 4 Film rights optioned by New Line Cinema. One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agen ...Show more