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Espionage : The Greatest Spy Operations of the Twentieth Century
Espionage The Greatest Spy Operations of the Twentieth Century
Author: Ernest Volkman
DISCOVER THE SPYING OPERATIONS THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Espionage expert Ernest Volkman goes behind the scenes of 20th-century history to uncover twenty-three incredible capers, con games, and subterfuges. Here are just a few:
  • Windows shattered in Manhattan, shrapnel struck the Statue of Liberty, and the Brooklyn Bridge swa...  more »
  • Japan's seizure of the Mandate Islands in the central Pacific triggered U.S. covert activities. Could the secret of Amelia Earhart's tragic final flight be connected to America's pre-war jitters?
  • In the early 1920s, to ensure the survival of the fledgling Soviet state, Lenin used his personal intelligence service, CHEKA, to control anti-Bolshevik resistance. Enemies of the revolution were lured to their destruction through the ironically named Trust Operation.
  • How were the Allies able to counter Hitler's deadliest weapons? For six years a mole inside Nazi Germany's scientific establishment betrayed the secrets of his country's classified military research to Britain's MI6.
ISBN-13: 9780471161578
ISBN-10: 0471161578
Publication Date: 9/1996
Pages: 264
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Publisher: Wiley
Book Type: Paperback
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