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Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her rati ...Show more
Agent Sonya - Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1945, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she w ...Show more
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Eddie Chapman: rogue, criminal, confidence trickster, hero to both sides and betrayer of all. At the start of the Second World War, Chapman was recruited by the German Secret Service. He was a highly prized Nazi agent. He was also a secret spy for Britain, alias Agent Zigzag. "Agent Zigzag" is the untol ...Show more
Agent Zigzag - The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman - Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$23.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2007 As read on Radio 4 Film rights optioned by New Line Cinema. One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agen ...Show more
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy (reissued): The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy (reissued) by Ben Macintyre
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villai ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The bestselling historian with the real story of WW2's 'inescapable' Nazi prison camp In a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop, an unlikely band of prisoners plotted a daring escape from the clutches of their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchanged and unchallenged for 70 years. ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force. The deception invol ...Show more
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit...At the heart of the deception was the 'Double Cross System', a team of double agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeede ...Show more
For Your Eyes Only by Ben Macintyre
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A riveting look into the world of James Bond and his creator, published on the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth.In For Your Eyes Only, Ben Macintyre reveals where the world of Ian Fleming ends and the world of James Bond begins. Macintyre looks at the actual people on whom the writer based his fictional ...Show more
For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond: Ian Fleming and James Bond by Ben Macintyre
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories' One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born and would go on to become one of the most successful, enduring and lucrative creations in lit ...Show more
Operation Mincemeat : The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and ce ...Show more