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English
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As Jewish families were trying desperately to get out of Europe during the menacing rise of Hitler's Nazi party, some chose to send their young sons away to uncertain futures in America, perhaps never to see them again. As these boys became young men, they were determined to join the fight in Europe. In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 of these German-born...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiv, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter chronicles the 12 days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, examining the miscommunications, clues, missteps and racist assumptions that may have been behind America's failure to safeguard against the tragedy,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ): illustrations, maps.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of socialite spy Marguerite Harrison, who slipped behind enemy lines in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars Foreign correspondent. Author. Filmmaker. Spy. Marguerite Harrison was born into Gilded Age American privilege and launched a successful career as a culture writer for the Baltimore Sun as a young widow. But when America entered World War I, Harrison secretly applied for a position in intelligence....
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xvii, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Duncan Chaplin Lee was one of the highest-ranking moles in the wartime U.S. intelligence apparatus. Lee was chief aide to William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the fabled head of the Office of Strategic Services and grandfather of the CIA. During World War II, Lee's political sympathies and desire to advance the fight against fascism led him to leak highly classified information to the Soviets. J. Edgar Hoover would tirelessly trace Lee's movements in an...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI brought thousands of perpetrators to America as possible...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 buttoned-down GS-14 with shockingly easy access to classified documents. By night, she was on the clock for Fidel Castro, listening to coded messages over shortwave radio, passing US secrets to handlers in...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvi, 302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Nuking the Moon, intelligence historian Vince Houghton proves that abandoned plans can be just as illuminating--and every bit as entertaining--as the ones that made it. Vividly capturing the fascinating stories of how twenty-one plans from WWII and the Cold War went from conception, planning, and testing to cancellation, Houghton explores what happens when innovation meets desperation: For every plan as good as D-Day, there's a scheme to strap...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the stories of three men at the center of a legendary first prisoner exchange between the Soviet Union and America, describing the chance events that contributed to their captures and rescues and their indirect contributions to triggering the arms race.
13) Information hunters: when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the...
15) 12 seconds of silence: how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
12 Seconds of Silence is the remarkable, lost story of how a ragtag group of American scientists overcame one of the toughest problems of World War II: shooting things out of the sky. Working in a secretive organization known as Section T, a team of physicists, engineers, and everyday Joes and Janes took on a devilish challenge. To help the Allies knock airplanes out of the air, they created one of the worlds first {28}smart weapons.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xii, 562 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The fascinating biography of the man who laid the foundation for the CIA. One of the most celebrated and highly decorated heroes of World War I, a noted trial lawyer, presidential adviser and emissary, and chief of America's Office of Strategic Services during World War II, William J. Donovan was a legendary figure. "Donovan," originally published in 1982, penetrates the cloak of secrecy surrounding this remarkable man. During the dark days of World...
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