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Agent Sonya - Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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 Sonya - Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben MacIntyre
55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944, a thin, and unusually elegant, housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pe ...Show more
Agent Zigzag - The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman - Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
40.00 NZD
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
30.00 NZD
Category: Military 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
24.99 NZD
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
Josiah The Great: True Story Of The Man Who Would Be King by Ben Macintyre
24.99 NZD
27.95 (10% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King is the amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early 19th-century American adventurer who forged his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. In 1838 a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American fl ...Show more
Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre
24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
**Soon to be a major film, starring Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilson, Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs**A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTIONA SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Astonishing ... Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan' Daily Mail'A rollicking read' Max ...Show more
SAS: Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre
30.00 NZD
Category: Military History
In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules- a small undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines. So began the most celebrated and mysterio ...Show more
Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal: by Ben Macintyre
24.99 NZD
Category: History
Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War.Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and Jam ...Show more
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama by Ben Macintyre
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else' John Preston From the author of Sunday Times #1 bestsellers COLDITZ, SAS: ROGUE HEROES and THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR. On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. T ...Show more
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
26.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARR The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. I ...Show more
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