Historical History Spy

A propulsive, never-before-told story of one family’s shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It began with a letter from a screenwriter, asking about a story. Your family. World War II. Nazi spies. Christine...

On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, the first great revolution of the twentieth century began as working-class men and women occupied buildings throughout Dublin, Ireland, including the general post office on O’Connell Street. Among the commoners in the GPO was a young staff captain of the Irish Volunteers named Michael Collins. He was joined a day later by a fourteen-year-old messenger boy, Eoin Kavanagh.

The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Morris cannot sit by idly. Quietly disdainful of her Tory parents, who drag her along to society events and welcome a British soldier into their home during their occupation of New York City, Elizabeth decides to take matters into her own hands. She realizes that, as a young woman, no one around her believes that she can comprehend the profound implications of being a nation at war - she is, effectively, invisible. And she can use this invisibility to her advantage.

Detective Isaac Bell, hero of The Chase and The Wrecker, returns in the remarkable new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. It is 1908, and international tensions are mounting as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! “Readers will be on the edge of their seats…. A brilliant tale of resistance, courage and ultimately hope.” –Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan From the New...

Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted...

ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West. More than a century...

In German-occupied East Africa during World War I, British forces have arrived. In defiance of his orders, German military commander Paul von Lettow enlists soldiers, civilians, and African rebels to fight against the British, forming the first modern guerrilla uprising of the time. Amid his political battles, Lettow is embroiled in a romantic relationship with an American woman who loves him, but who objects to his war.

The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New York Robins and the Chicago White Sox and that of a spy for the OSS during World War II. Here, Dawidoff provides "a careful and sympathetic biography" ( Chicago Sun-Times) of this enigmatic man.

May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls: Hannie Schaft, and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad.

THE MAN WHO REFUSED THE CROWN. George Washington should have died at twenty-three. Four bullets passed through his coat at the Monongahela. Two horses were shot out from under him. Every officer around him fell. He walked out without a scratch. For forty-four years, he carried that coat in a trunk — and the question it asked. Why was he preserved when everyone else was buried? The answer came at Newburgh, when a desperate army offered him absolute power. The revolution had been won. Congress had failed them. The crown was his for the taking. He refused it with a pair of reading glasses. ...

610 AD. The Byzantine Empire is collapsing. Persian armies pour across the eastern frontier. The Balkans are ravaged by barbarian invasions. At the centre of the chaos sits Phocas, a half-mad soldier who has seized the throne and now rules Constantinople through spectacle and arbitrary torture. One province after another declares for Heraclius, the ambitious usurper advancing from Africa. The capital trembles on the brink of destruction. Into this inferno comes Aelric of England—scholar, rake, and reluctant agent of the Papacy. Blackmailed into abandoning a profitable life of lechery and ...

A COVERT OPERATION UNDER THE NOSE OF A TYRANT. Judea, 4 B.C. The region is a powder keg. Herod the Great is dying, paranoid, and purging his own court. The Romans are watching the roads. Jerusalem is a nest of spies. Into this kill zone ride the Magi—scientists and intelligence officers from the East tracking a celestial anomaly that signals a regime change. Their mission is a tactical extraction: infiltrate hostile territory, locate the High-Value Asset, and deliver the funding for his escape before Herod’s death squads close the net. This is the Nativity story retold as a race against...

Commander Tony Romella takes a small team on what is expected to be a routine one month trip to Casablanca, Morocco. Their mission is simply to provide a temporary Top Secret special intelligence communications center to support U.S. members of a high level Allied war planning meeting. An easy mission quickly goes awry. Only two months after the Allied assault and occupation of Casablanca (Operation TORCH), the city remains a hotbed of Vichy and German sympathizers and spies. One unexpected event leads to another. Things get dicey, with life threatening situations, shots fired and dead bodies.

The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War II In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising; that she had survived the...

A severed arm, found buried in the White House Rose Garden. A lethal message with terrible consequences for the Presidency.And a hidden secret in one family's past that will have repercussions for the entire nation. Following The Inner Circle and The Fifth Assassin, #1 bestselling author Brad...

Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of "The Cambridge Spies" - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.

Unabridged, 12 1/2 hours Read by TBD Two Americans in the just-born Office of Strategic Services take on their most important assignment during World War II: to extract-or eliminate-those Germans with the expertise to develop the atomic bomb...

The Vatican’s silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him “Hitler’s Pope.” But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pius ran the...

The Angels (CIA Area 51 Chronicles – Book 1) By TD Barnes The birth of CIA aerial reconnaissance. The race to build the U-2. The hidden history of Area 51. In this explosive first installment of The CIA Area 51 Chronicles, step into the shadowy world of Cold War espionage, where the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) battles for supremacy against the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps in a high-stakes struggle to control America’s aerial intelligence operations. At the height of Cold War paranoia, President Truman entrusts the CIA with an unprecedented mission—to ...