Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
8 best books like Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 (Leo Marks): Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal, Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II, A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII., Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943, Nancy Wake, Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day, Cochrane: Britannia's Sea Wolf, Driven
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
| Author | Ben Macintyre |
| ISBN | 0307353400 |
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona...
Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
| Author | William Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1559707631 |
A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25. With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, Vera ran countless missions throughout the 1930s. After rising...
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII.
Once rumored to have been the inspiration for Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny, Vera Atkins climbed her way to the top in the Special Operations Executive, or SOE: Britain's secret service created to help build up, organize, and arm the resistance in the Nazi-occupied countries. Throughout the war,...
Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943
| Author | David Kahn |
| ISBN | 0760708630 |
Among the famous battles of World War II, the longest and most critical was the Battle of the Atlantic--the struggle between the American convoys bringing supplies to Britain and the German U-boats bent on severing that lifeline. No matter where else on earth conflicts raged, leaders on both sides...
| Author | Russell Braddon |
| ISBN | 0330202499 |
Nancy Wake was an incredible woman. Born in New Zealand, raised in Australia, traveling to various international spots in young adulthood, she ended up in Paris as a European news correspondent. She married a wealthy Frenchman, Henri Fiocca,in November 1939 and settled in Marseilles where she improved...
Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
| Author | Stephan Talty |
| ISBN | 0547614810 |
Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone secret agent?
Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich — and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis....
Cochrane: Britannia's Sea Wolf
| Author | Donald Serrell Thomas |
| ISBN | 1557508089 |
The fictional heroics of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey are pale imitations of the deeds of Admiral Lord Thomas Cochrane, one of the most daring and successful real-life heroes the naval world has ever seen. In this fascinating account of his life, Donald Thomas...
| Author | James Sallis |
| ISBN | 1464200106 |
Driven is the sequel to Drive, now also an award-winning film. As we exit the initial novel, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, “the only one he ever mourned,” ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him. Driven tells how that young man, done with killing, later will become the one who goes...
