The Shadow War Against Hitler

The Shadow War Against Hitler

Author: Christof Mauch

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780231120449

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Filled with revelations and replete with telling detail, this riveting book lifts the curtain on the United States' secret intelligence operations in the war against Nazi Germany.


Church of Spies

Church of Spies

Author: Mark Riebling

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2015-09-29

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0465061559

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The heart-pounding history of how Pope Pius XII -- often labeled "Hitler's Pope" -- was in fact an anti-Nazi spymaster, plotting against the Third Reich during World War II. The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pope Pius in fact ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he sent birthday cards to Hitler -- while secretly plotting to kill him. He skimmed from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recorded his meetings with top Nazis. Under his leadership the Vatican spy ring actively plotted against the Third Reich. Told with heart-pounding suspense and drawing on secret transcripts and unsealed files by an acclaimed author, Church of Spies throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal some of the most astonishing events in the history of the papacy. Riebling reveals here how the world's greatest moral institution met the greatest moral crisis in history.


The Secret War Against Hitler

The Secret War Against Hitler

Author: Fabian von Schlabrendorff

Publisher: New York : Pitman Publishing Corporation

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13:

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"One of the few survivors of the German Resistance, von Schlabrendorff traces the first awakening of anti-Nazi activity during his student days in the twenties. Later, once Hitler took power, von Schlabrendorff joined with others of the intelligentsia to form the tiny clandestine groups that would become the core of the Resistance. He recounts the futile secret meetings of the conspirators; their careful, agonizing efforts to enlist the aid of weak and vacillating German generals; their anguished appeals for help to Chamberlain and other British officials, and the author's personal plea to Churchill just before the outbreak of war in 1939. Von Schlabrendorff tells of the "double life" of the Resistance leaders during World War II, of the seeming invincibility of the Nazis, and how each Nazi success inevitably thwarted the conspirators. He recalls his intimate involvement in the first attempt against Hitler's life, then describes the Generals' Plot of July 20 and the torture and terror which followed. Throughout his book the moral dilemmas which shaped every action of the plotters are movingly revealed." --from inside jacket flap.


The Secret War Against Hitler

The Secret War Against Hitler

Author: William J. Casey

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780425116159

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William Casey was one of 600 young amateurs recruited for the OSS by its founder, the legendary Wild Bill Donovan. This is an unparalleled story of an inspired group who changed the course of history. And the story of William Casey's extraordinary commitment to freedom.


Shadow Knights

Shadow Knights

Author: Gary Kamiya

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-12-06

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1451683596

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Pulp History brings to life extraordinary feats of bravery, violence, and redemption that history has forgotten. These stories are so dramatic and thrilling they have to be true. In SHADOW KNIGHTS, everyday men and women risk their lives on top-secret missions to sabotage Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Hell-bent on conquering Europe, Hitler had just set his sights on England when Winston Churchill reached into his bag of tricks and invented a secret spy network of ordinary citizens. These schoolteachers, housewives, prostitutes, and farmers abandoned their former lives, trained in covert black ops, and set Europe ablaze. Parachuting into Nazi territory under the cover of night, they destroyed factories, armed resistance networks, and turned Hitler’s juggernaut on its head.


Hitler's Secret War In South America, 1939–1945

Hitler's Secret War In South America, 1939–1945

Author: Stanley E. Hilton

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 1999-11-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780807124369

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Published first in Brazil as Suástica sobre o Brasil, this examination of the rise and fall of German espionage in that country spent months on the best-seller list there and generated a national furor as former spies and collaborationists denounced it as a CIA ploy. Here, for the first time, are the colorful stories of such German agents as "Alfredo," probably the most important enemy operative in the Americas; "King," who was decorated for his daring exploits but who carelessly mentioned the real names of his collaborators in secret radio messages; the bumbling Janos Salamon; and the debonair Hans Christian von Kotze, who ultimately betrayed the Abwehr (German Military Intelligence). Eminently readable, Hitler's Secret War in South America resembles, but is not, fiction. It describes in detail the Allies' real battle against the Abwehr, a struggle highlighted by the interception and deciphering of German radio transmissions.


Sinister Touches

Sinister Touches

Author: Robert C. Goldston

Publisher: Dial Books

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Dramatic accounts of covert activities and espionage during World War II read like a spy novel.


Stalin's Secret War

Stalin's Secret War

Author: Robert W. Stephan

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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An animated adaptation of the story of the same title by Maurice Sendak in which a small boy makes a visit to the land of the wild things. Tells how he tames the creatures and returns home. For primary grades.


Operation Damocles

Operation Damocles

Author: Roger Howard

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1639360581

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The forgotten cloak-and-dagger history of the former Nazi scientists who were recruited by Egypt to develop long-range missiles capable of striking Israel. From 1951 to 1967, Egypt pursued a secret program to build military rockets that could have conceivably posed a threat to neighboring Israel. Because such an ambitious project required Western expertise, the Egyptian leader president Nasser hired West German scientists, many of them veterans of the Nazi rocket program at Peenemünde and elsewhere.These covert plans soon came to the attention of Israel’s legendary secret service, Mossad, and caused deep alarm in Tel Aviv. Could the missiles be fitted with warheads filled with radiological, chemical, or even nuclear materials? Israel responded by using threats, intimidation, and brutal assassination squads to deter the German scientists from working on Nasser’s behalf. Exactly half a century later, this book tells the gripping story of the mysterious arms dealers, Mossad assassins, scientific genii, and leading figures who all played their part in Operation Damocles


Madame Fourcade's Secret War

Madame Fourcade's Secret War

Author: Lynne Olson

Publisher: Scribe Publications

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 1925693716

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A WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR The little-known true story of the woman who headed the largest spy network in Vichy France during World War II. In 1941, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of Alliance, a vast Resistance organisation — the only woman to hold such a role. Brave, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country’s conservative, patriarchal society, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was temperamentally made for the job. No other French spy network lasted as long or supplied as much crucial intelligence as Alliance — and as a result, the Gestapo pursued its members relentlessly, capturing, torturing, and executing hundreds of its three thousand agents, including Fourcade’s own lover and many of her key spies. Fourcade herself lived on the run and was captured twice by the Nazis. Both times she managed to escape. Though so many of her agents died defending their country, Fourcade survived the occupation to become active in post-war French politics. Now, in a dramatic account of the war that split France in two and forced its people to live side by side with their hated German occupiers, Lynne Olson tells the fascinating story of a woman who stood up for her nation, her fellow citizens, and herself.