German Spies

The Statue of Liberty’s torch has been closed since 1916. Most Americans have no idea why. On July 30, 1916, German saboteurs detonated two million pounds of munitions on the New Jersey waterfront. The blast shattered windows across Manhattan, registered as a 5.5 earthquake, and sent shrapnel into the Statue of Liberty. The torch was closed to the public. It has never reopened. That night was the opening act of a hidden intelligence war on American soil — a thirty-year struggle fought in ports, factories, courtrooms, and FBI sting operations. German Spies on American Soil tells this ...

"[Narrator Erin] Bennett’s reading is never overdone; her directness neither shies away from [author Christine] Kuehn’s unpleasant revelations nor sensationalizes them...her light expression lets the dramatic details speak for themselves." — Booklist "[Narrator Erin] Bennett's enunciation...

It's 1943 and the world is at war. On the European front, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill have already picked a date for Allied soldiers to storm Normandy's beaches and take the battle to Germany. But the Germans may have new weapons to stop the invasion dead in its tracks. British Intelligence learned four years earlier that the Germans were developing rockets to be used for warfare but could not corroborate the information. Then, information from Polish Resistance and Royal Air Force reconnaissance photos revealed similar information. Finally, recorded conversations between ...

The best spy novel of all time Publishers Weekly Its the early 1960s, and the newly built Berlin Wall looms large. British intelligence officer Alec Leamas, caught in its shadow, feels the chill all too keenly: the preceding years have seen nearly every member of his Berlin spy network either...

From the author of While Paris Slept comes a story of great love, betrayal, and redemption, set in WWII and 1960s France and England. "Words are power. They can bring you down, lift you up, make your heart soar, make you fall in love. Or make you hate." Paris 1944. Elise Chevalier knows what it...

Hilde Krüger, actriz alemana pretendida por el ministro de propaganda nazi Joseph Goebbels, debe irse del país en calidad de espía o su carrera artística será saboteada. Es enviada a Los Ángeles, donde comparte con su gobierno información que escucha en fiestas de la alta sociedad americana. Está convencida de que puede hacer un bien a su país. Después es enviada a México para infiltrarse en las altas esferas políticas para fortalecer relaciones comerciales entre ambos países sin importar los métodos.

The German Spy in America gives a firsthand documentation of German espionage and sabotage in the U.S. in the lead-up to World War I. Published in 1917 just before the U.S. entered World War I (with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt), it details German attempts at sabotage and infiltration in the first two and a half years of World War I, including attempts to provoke Mexico to war against the United States, provisions for the invasion of Canada, and the sinking of the liner Lusitania in 1915, which cost the lives of 113 American citizens and shifted U.S. opinion decisively against Germany.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER “As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring World War II spies before marrying into European...

Set in Berlin just after the end of World War II, a brilliant thriller that was also made into a film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wrangled one of the coveted press slots for the Potsdam...

In a tale as twisted as any spy thriller, discover how three women delivered critical evidence of Axis war crimes to Allied forces during World War II: “Mazzeo is a fascinating storyteller” (New York Journal of Books). In 1944, news of secret diaries kept by Italy's Foreign Minister...

Mein Spy gives a firsthand documentation of German espionage and sabotage in the U.S. in the lead-ups to both World War I and World War II. These activities, some only plotted, some carried out, defeated their own purpose. Instead of keeping America from intervening on behalf of the Allies, German disinformation and sabotage inflamed an American public opinion that up to that point had mostly been neutral.

The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, New York Newsday, and on Today! “A nonfiction thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal From New York Times and international bestselling author of the “gripping” (Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author)...

The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award Winner of the Chautauqua Prize Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist for the Plutarch Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 A...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain’s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II “Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)—and all of it true...

‘A superbly plotted historical drama… highly recommended!’ The Wishing Shelf One woman must sacrifice everything to uncover the truth in this enthralling historical novel, inspired by the true World War Two campaign Radio Aspidistra… England, 1942: Having fled Germany after her father...

Zwei Legenden. Ein Berg. Keine Gnade. Jason King und Will Slater – zwei Männer, die selbst den gefährlichsten Gegnern das Fürchten lehren – landen in Nepal. Die vierzehnjährige Raya Parker, Tochter eines einflussreichen Black Ops-Strategen, ist auf dem Weg zum Gokyo Ri verschwunden. Mit ihr verloren sich auch die Spuren des Bodyguards und eines unauffälligen nepalesischen Trägers.

Deutschland 2033: Einhundert Jahre nach der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten steht Deutschland vor einer Bundestagswahl – und die AfD geht als Siegerin hervor. Die Rechtspopulisten demontieren Schritt für Schritt den liberalen Verfassungsstaat. In nur einem Jahr wächst ein autoritäres Regime heran, das Menschenrechte und Demokratie verachtet.

Winner of the Association for Mormon Letters Biography Award A compelling true story of three LDS teens’ fight for freedom. “Rudi Wobbe: Charged with Preparation to High Treason and Aiding and Abetting the Enemy” Thus began the trial of Rudi Wobbe and two of his teenage friends as they stood before the justices of the dreaded Volksgerichtshof, the infamous supreme court of Nazi Germany. All the power and indignation of the Third Reich now focused on these three young LDS men who dared to distribute the truth about the war to their neighbors. If found guilty, they faced imprisonment—...

Kein Strom. Keine Sicherheit. Nur die Vorbereiteten werden überleben. Jack Warrant hielt sich nie für einen »Prepper«. Das waren Leute vom Rand der Gesellschaft – Verschwörungstheoretiker, Weltuntergangskultisten mit fatalistischem Blick. Dann ging die Welt unter. Die Lichter erloschen. Und Jack stand vor einer Wahrheit: Seine Vorbereitung war gleich null, seine Familie war in Gefahr, und überall um ihn herum fragten verzweifelte Menschen nicht mehr nach Recht und Moral – sie fragten nur noch: Wie überlebe ich?