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Agent Zigzag, A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
by Macintyre, Ben
New York: Harmony Books, 2007. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xiv, 366. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Selected Bibliography. Index. Eddie Chapman was a minor criminal who fatefully fell into the hands of the Nazis. They trained him to return to Britain and spy for them. However, things did not work out quite as expected. This is a terrific story, beautifully written by Ben Macintyre.
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€36.12
The Man from St. Petersburg
by Follett, Ken
Signet, 1983-05-01. Paperback. Good. 0 Paperback
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€6.61
The Secrets of the Service, A Story of Soviet Subversion of Western Intelligence
by Glees, Anthony
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xvi, 448. Illustrated: (8) pp. plates. Notes. Checklist. Index. A study of the Soviet penetration of British Intelligence which began in the 1930s and continued for decades.
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€19.01
The Tulips Are Red
by Rose, Leesha
South Brunswick/New York: A. S. Barnes & Thomas Yoseloff, 1978. Memoir of a Dutch Jewish young woman, just graduated from high school when the Nazis invaded her country, who finds work in various hospitals and becomes active in the Dutch Underground, resisting the invaders. Hardcover. Light wear to book, spine ends bumped; price-clipped jacket rubbed with light edgewear. Text clean; 275 pages, a few b/w photos.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.
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€23.76
On The Front Line. Real life stories of spying, escaping and surviving war
by Hambrook, Michael
London: New Holland. 2012. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 378 pages. All of the people in this book survived to tell their story to Michael Hambrook; who has meticuously brought each one to life; accompanied by photographs and documents of the time. . 1st Edition....
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€15.23
The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives
by Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev
London: Harper Collins, 1998. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 356pp+ index. Pages tanned, else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.
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€23.76
Inside the KGB
by Myagkov, Aleksei
Ballantine, 1981-10-12. Paperback. Good. 0 Paperback - Vertical crease front cover reinforced - Binding OK, reading & corner creases, edge & corner wear, no marks, no stickers - 7 x 4.1 x .5 inches 3.8 oz
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€6.61
The Second Oldest Profession, Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century
by Knightley, Phillip
New York: W. W. Norton, 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xii, 430. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Source notes. Checklist. Index. This is an entertaining story. Modern spying began with the English novelist, William Le Queux, and his obsessions about an insidious German spy network in the years just before the First World War. The author remarks, "It is clear that he [Le Queux] rapidly ceases to distinguish fact from fantasy." Have...
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€24.72
Cloak And Dagger
by Bill Pronzini & Martin Greenberg (Ed.)
A treasury of 35 great espionage stories. Slight edge wear to jacket..
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€7.60
In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage
by Klehr, Harvey & John Haynes
San Francisco: Encounter Books. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. (2003). First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1893554724 . Book and DJ as new. No ownership or other marks. Not a remainder. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages .
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€14.26
Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and the War on Terrorism
by Mark Hollingsworth; Nick Fielding
André Deutsch Ltd, 2004. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 360 pages, with index and bibliography. Illustrated with b&w photos on four double-sided plates. A critical look at MI5, British domestic intelligence, after 9/11. Trade paperback, former library book with relevant stickers and stamps, wraps worn and creased, peeling to inside front cover, edges and page margins age-toned. Underscoring and/or margin brackets on approximately 30 pages.
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€5.70
The Escape Room
by Airey Neave
Zebra Books (Kensington Publishing Corp.), 1980. Soft cover. Good. 319 pages. First published 1969, first-hand account of British Intelligence's Room 900 operations to extract captured operatives and other POWs from Nazi-occupied Europe. Illustrated with black and white photos. Mass-market paperback, wraps worn, pages brown from age, a few pages accidentally creased at bottom, binding tight. Old pencil price on front free end paper, another notation on rear fep. Interior pages unmarked.
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€4.75
The Other Woman
by Silva, Daniel
New York: HarperCollins, 2018. Spy thriller SIGNED by the author on a special page. light wear to book & jacket, near fine.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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€23.76
The Philby Files, The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby
by [Philby, Kim]. Genrikh Borovik
Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xxii, 384. Illustrated: (8) pp. plates. Index. Edited and with an Introduction by Phillip Knightley. Translated by Antonia W. Bouis.
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€19.01
Betrayal, The Story of Aldrich Ames, An American Spy
by [Ames, Aldrich]. Tim Weiner, David Johnston, Neil A. Lewis
New York: Random House, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. viiii, 312. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. List of Sources. Index.
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€11.41
The Kiwi Contract
by Atlee, Philip
Fawcett, 1972-01-01. Paperback. Fine. Joe Gall Mystery Series 0 Paperback - Some page darkening
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€12.31
Hitler's Savage Canary, A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II
by Lampe, David
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xviii, 238. Illustrated: (8) pp. of plates. Index. Foreword by Birger Riis-Jorgensen. Also includes the 1957 Foreword by Air Chief Marshall Sir Basil Embrey. This book was originally published by Cassell & Company, London, in 1957.
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€20.91
Istanbul
by Carter, Nick
Award, 1965-10-01. Paperback. Good. Killmaster Adventure Series 10 Paperback - Price marker front cover - Binding square & tight, reading & corner creases, edge & corner wear, no marks, no stickers - 7 x 4.1 x .5 inches 3.2 oz
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€7.56
Operation Mincemeat
by Macintyre, Ben
Macintyre, Ben: Operation Mincemeat, The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II.
Bloomsbury. London: 2010.First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xiv, 402. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Appendix with facsimiles. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Near fine copy in dj.ISBN 978-0-7475-9868-8
Bloomsbury. London: 2010.First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xiv, 402. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Appendix with facsimiles. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Near fine copy in dj.ISBN 978-0-7475-9868-8
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€45.63
The Dreyfus Affair
by Schechter, Betty
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First printing.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Stated First printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing. Clean black cloth boards with blue and red decorative rectangles on cover, red lettering on spine. No bumping, tiny spot of wear to one spine corner. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean black endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 264 pgs. with index. Illustrated...
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€19.01
The Wilson Plot, How the Spycatchers and Their American Allies Tried to Overthrow the British Government
by Leigh, David
New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xvi, 272. (8) pp. plates. Checklist. Index. There had always been a great deal of paranoia within the British security services, but by the 1960s it was rampant. Some officials even believed the Prime Minister of the time, Harold Wilson, was a Soviet agent. The author suggests a plot was hatched to overthrow the Government. Inevitably the Americans entered the story for their own purposes.
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€14.26
The History of Espionage
by Volkman, Ernest
Victoria: Hinkler Books. 2007.. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Black & white illustrations. 224 pages. The clandestine world of surveillance, spying and intelligence, from ancient times to the post-9/11 world. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€10.97
Spy Trader, Germany's Devil's Advocate and the Darkest Secrets of the Cold War
by [Vogel, Wolfgang]. Whitney, Craig R
New York: Random House, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xl, 376. Illustrated: (8) pp. of plates. Checklist. Index This is a biography of Wolfgang Vogel, a suave East German lawyer who moved between East and West brokering deals between the two Cold War sides.
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€9.51
Top Secret
by Ingersoll, Ralph
London, Partridge Publications, Ltd. , 1946. First Edition: Original black boards, (hardback) , basically good and sound condition, title faded but readable to spine, map endpapers, previous owner's neatly written name and date to reverese side of front endpaper, 285 pages, a little staining to inside paste-down, black and white illustrations. Readable and interesting. .
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€14.19
An Agent in Place The Wennerstrom Affair
by Thomas Whiteside
London: Heinemann. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. The book is tightly bound. Internally the book is generally clean, free of markings and foxing. The dust jacket is lightly worn to the extremities, unclipped. ; 150 pages .
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€9.46
