Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, a young Peter Calvocoressi was serving in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, his role largely consisting of reviewing shipping manifests day in day...
From the Eastern Front in WW2 to Cold War CIA Asset
by Norman Ridley
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781036113254
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-03-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Frontline Books
256 Pages
Eleven years after Reinhard Gehlen, the head of Adolf Hitler’s Eastern Front military intelligence unit, emerged from hiding to hand himself over to US forces, he had, with the help of the American...
In his short life, Liverpool-born Alexander Foote went from being a volunteer in the International Brigade in Spain to becoming an agent of Soviet military intelligence in Switzerland. Pretending to...
The Second World War Exploits of Lieutenant Leif Bangsbøll
by Brook G Bangsbøll
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781036119423
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-01-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Frontline Books
336 Pages
More than a Viking call to arms, An O.S.S. Secret Agent Behind Enemy Lines chronicles the incredible life of Leif Bangsboll up to and including the Second World War. Compiled by Bangsboll’s son, this...
Hitler’s Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940
by Neil R Storey
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781526797230
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-01-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
288 Pages
Beating the Invader is a revealing and disturbing exploration of the darker history of Nazis, spies and ‘Fifth Columnist’ saboteurs in Britain and the extensive top secret counter-measures taken before and during the real threat of invasion in 1940.
Southern Thailand, 1941. This is the story of Operation Cleeves. A daring and long forgotten SOE Far East mission, where a handful of tin miners risked their lives fighting against the onslaught of...
Two German defectors who were to serve British Intelligence from 1942 to 1945 were, in many ways, two of a kind. One was a Nazi, having served in the Waffen-SS and given the code name COLUMBINE as...
Volume 3 - Clandestine CIA Flight Operations beyond the Iron Curtain, 1947-1960
by Kevin Wright
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781804510247
Publisher: Helion and Company
Pub Date: 2024-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Helion and Company
88 Pages
While most famous for its U-2 penetration flights over the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated a large number of ‘other’ types of intelligence-gathering aircraft, or specially modified aircraft for operations beyond the Iron Curtain from the mid-1940s.
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