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Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Growing up as an orphan, Razumou adopted the belief that all of Russia was his family, a sentiment that he carries into his higher education. Because of this, when talks of revolution start arising in Russia, Razumou decides to stay neutral. However, this becomes increasingly difficult when most of his classmates start to express their ardent support for a revolution. Still, Razumou decides not to take a stand on either side. Since he feels all of...
2) The huntress
Author
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted... Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina's bravery and cunning will keep her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"Against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election, five simultaneous murders on three continents leads a cyber sleuth to a thread revealing someone has just bought five nuclear weapons. But who and what is their target? American intelligence expert Ray Bowman is brought in to find out. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he races around the world to stop nuclear terror. Washington fears the bombs...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how academia has become the center of foreign and domestic espionage-and why that is troubling news for our nation's security.
Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game. In a knowledge-based economy, universities are repositories of valuable information and research, where brilliant minds of all nationalities...
5) A single spy
Author
Series
Alexsi volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
""A single spy--in the right place and at the right moment--may change the course of history." Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936, at the age of 16, Alexsi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There, in the notorious headquarters of the secret police, he is given a choice: be trained and inserted...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiv, 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The old world of spying that emphasized the human factor--dead letter boxes, microfilm cameras, and an enemy reporting to the Moscow Center--is history. Or is it? In recent times, the spymaster's technique has changed with the enemy. He or she now frequently comes from a culture far removed from Western understanding and is part of a less well-organized group. The new enemy is constantly evolving and prepared to kill the innocent. In the face of this...
7) Moskva
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a young man is left outside the walls of the Kremlin, frozen solid--like marble to the touch--missing the little finger from his right hand. A week later, Alex Marston, the headstrong fifteen-year-old daughter of the British Ambassador, disappears. Army Intelligence Officer Tom Fox, posted to Moscow to keep him from telling the truth to a government committee, is asked to help find her. It's a shot at redemption....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The author of Shadow War, a veteran with deep experience--as an 82nd Airborne paratrooper, private contractor, and professor of war studies at the National Defense University--delivers a highly provocative, even controversial, exploration of modern warfare and what we must do to win in the futureWar is timeless. Some things change--weapons, tactics, technology, leadership, objectives--but the propensity for humans to do battle does not. Today, more...
Author
Language
English
Description
"World War II London: When Victoire "Paddy" Bennett first walks into the Admiralty's Room 39, home to the Intelligence Division, all the bright and lively young woman expects is a secretarial position to the charismatic Commander Ian Fleming. But soon her job is so much more, and when Fleming proposes a daring plot to deceive the Germans about Allied invasion plans he requests the newlywed Paddy's help. She jumps at the chance to work as an agent...
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Examines the 9/11 terrorist attacks and details how modern espionage has changed because of them. Discusses characteristics of a good spy, myths about becoming a spy, and how spies are recruited and trained. Also explores the future of espionage. Includes profiles of spies, a timeline, photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
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
Beyond Words
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xi, 164 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the history's most daring women, including profiles of such figures as Underground Railroad heroine Harriet Tubman, CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, and Chinese Revolution-era spy Eva Wu.
16) Foreign threat
Author
Publisher
Elevation Book Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Steve Carmichael, a young surgery intern, is taken into the dark world of international espionage. What begins as a grueling surgery residency quickly turns dangerous as Steve is thrust into an adventure that will alter the course of his life forever. In the right place but at the wrong time, Steve is forced to take on a mysterious adventure to try and save himself. Will he make it out of this residency alive?
Series
Mission impossible volume Season 1, Discs 1-2
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The "Impossible Missions Force" consists of a team of extraordinary spies who are experts in their fields: The Leader, The Tech Expert, The Muscle, The Master of Disguise and The Femme Fatale. Every day, this elite force risks failure, capture and death ... but nothing is more important than their mission.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its day. Author John A. Nagy has become the nation's leading expert on Revolutionary spies, discovering hundreds who went behind enemy lines to gather intelligence during the American Revolution, many of whom are completely unknown to most historians. Using Washington's diary as the primary source, Nagy tells of...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvii, 509 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Time magazine called her "the Mata Hari of Minnesota"; OSS Chief general "Wild Bill" Donovan called her "the greatest unsung heroine of the war." But for decades, the extent of Betty Pack's achievements as an agent during World War II, first for Britain's MI6 and then for America's OSS, remained classified. Now, the truth about this femme fatale--her dangerous liaisons and death-defying missions, the heartaches that haunted her life, her vital contributions...
20) Spies in the KGB
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map.
Language
English
Description
Presents facts and photos about Russian spies and the KGB. Includes a glossary, index, and an at-home spy activity.