The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive

5 best books like The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive (Marcus Binney): A Single Thread, Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels, A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII., The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken, The X-Files: Cold Cases

A Single Thread

Author

Tracy Chevalier

1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother....

Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels

Author	Deirdre Le Faye
ISBN	0711222789

With pictures galore, Le Faye gives a short bio of Jane Austen, some cultural background of her world, and runs through each of Austen's works. Also includes contemporary maps (i.e., from about 1805) of the English counties Jane either set her stories in or that she personally lived in.

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A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII.

Author

Sarah Helm

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,...

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

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The Secret Barrister

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year
Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year 'Eye-opening, damning and hilarious' Tim Shipman, author of All Out War and Fall Out

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The X-Files: Cold Cases

Author

Joe Harris

The series that had a generation looking to the sky gets a breathtaking audio reprise in an original full-cast dramatization featuring actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson returning to voice FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
Based upon the graphic novels by Joe Harris - with creative...