The Spy In The Tower

Author : Giselle K. Jakobs
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750991712
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spy in the Tower written by Giselle K. Jakobs and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family man who ran afoul of the Nazis, Josef Jakobs was ill-prepared for an espionage mission to England. Captured by the Home Guard after breaking his ankle, Josef was interrogated at Camp 020, before being prosecuted under the Treachery Act 1940 and executed on 15 August 1941. An open and shut case? MI5's files suggest otherwise. Faced with the threat of a German invasion in 1940/41, MI5 used promises and threats to break enemy agents, extract intelligence and turn some into double agents, challenging the validity of the 'voluntary' confessions used to prosecute captured spies. But, more than that – was Josef set up to fail? Was he a sacrifice to test the double-cross system? The Spy in the Tower tells the untold story of one of Nazi Germany's failed agents, and calls into question the legitimacy of Britain's wartime espionage trials and the success of its double-cross system.

Author : GISELLE K. JAKOBS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781803998152
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SPY IN THE TOWER written by GISELLE K. JAKOBS and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leonard Sellers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473818168
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shot in the Tower written by Leonard Sellers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number 1 best book about spies in Britain. As listed by Dame Stelle Rimington Ex-Director-General of M.I.5.The first reaction to Leonard Sellers fascinating account of the spies who were executed in the Tower of London during the First World War is likely to be one of amazement at their ineptitude. Not one of them seems to have had any proper training or any idea of how to set about the job. This, of course raises the intriguing question: how many others were there who did know what they were up to and managed to escape detection? However, thanks to the more liberal attitude now prevalent regarding access to hitherto 'sensitive' material and to years of dogged research by Len Sellers, the remarkable, but somehow pathetic, stories of the eleven foreign agents who were caught and subsequently shot in the Tower for espionage can now be told. In these days when a mind-boggling array of equipment is available for the assimilation and transmission of supposedly secret information their antics strike one as little short of farcical, but for their efforts, inspired, it seems, more often by greed than patriotism, these men paid the ultimate price and paid it in the most historic site in Britain.Whether they deserved their fate, or indeed the niche in history which this book gives them, is for the reader to decide. What cannot be denied is that their collected histories make remarkable reading.

Author : John M. Makie
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469115263
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spy Worker written by John M. Makie and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petty Officer John G. Makie of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve did not realize what he was getting into in the summer of 1942, when he gave an oath at Camp X under the Canadian Secrets Act of 1939. He was only seventeen years old and determined to defend the freedom of Canada. He did so, in the most extraordinary way. He was special agent number 034, of the secret service group - under water demolition squadron. These secret agents were very highly trained commandos, who came from Canada, Britain, and Australia. These fearless men were scuba divers trained in small arms and hand-to-hand combat. They entered enemy occupied countries by the sea, carried out acts of sabotage and clandestine warfare. Then, they quickly disappeared into the night, back to the sea. These men had no name or rank, just mission after mission in Russia, Norway, Sweden, and France. This brave group of men, personally encouraged by Sir Winston Churchill, Sir William Stephenson, and Lord Louis Mountbatten set out to set Europe ablaze. When the war was over in Europe they set out to mop up Burma and Hong Kong. Yet no record of fallen buddies can be found. The year 1996 marks the end of the fifty-year gag order by oath and with it, the truth is finally set free. The Spy Worker reveals secrets of a time long, long agoall accounted by the lone survivor, now in his eighties which are finally free to share with friends and family. After many therapeutic sessions over the last ten years, events of this forgotten group are starting to surface. Although there are no records of their missions or medals of valor ever rewarded, The Spy Worker pays tribute to the unsung heroes of war in remembering their notable acts of bravery.

Author : Victor Sheymov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788155932
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tower of Secrets written by Victor Sheymov and published by . This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thriller, filled with spycraft & intelligence techniques never before revealed -- a true story that is more spellbinding than any work of fiction could ever be. As the ace troubleshooter for the super-secret 8th Chief Directorate, Sheymov operates from the KGB's inner sanctum. He's in charge of the security of cipher communications worldwide, which gives him a rare if not unique knowledge of how the entire organization works. He's as comfortable among the Party elite & his KGB colleagues as he is among dissidents & the city's underworld. This is the real world of intelligence played like a chess match & described by a master of the game.

Author : Charles E. Morgan, III
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387414283
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of the Spy's Revenge written by Charles E. Morgan, III and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things seem to be going well for Brains Benton and Jimmy Carson of the Benton and Carson International Detective Agency, when suddenly some strange things start to happen. Things go from bad to worse when they wind up framed for arson! Join Operative Three and X as they try to capture one of the most dangerous criminals they've ever encountered!

Author : Uwe Tellkamp
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 024100490X
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tower written by Uwe Tellkamp and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989.

Author : Candice F. Ransom
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417767137
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret in the Tower written by Candice F. Ransom and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. When Alex discovers an old spyglass, he and his two sisters find themselves back in time in the middle of the Revolutionary War where they meet George Washington.

Author : H. Keith Melton
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626167109
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spy Sites of New York City written by H. Keith Melton and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through every era of American history, New York City has been a battleground for international espionage, where secrets are created, stolen, and passed through clandestine meetings and covert communications. Some spies do their work and escape, while others are compromised, imprisoned, and--a few--executed. Spy Sites of New York City takes you inside this shadowy world and reveals the places where it all happened. In 233 main entries as well as listings for scores more spy sites, H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace weave incredible true stories of derring-do and double-crosses that put even the best spy fiction to shame. The cases and sites follow espionage history from the Revolutionary War and Civil War, to the rise of communism and fascism in the twentieth century, to Russian sleeper agents in the twenty-first century. The spy sites are not only in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx but also on Long Island and in New Jersey. Maps and 380 photographs allow readers to follow in the footsteps of spies and spy-hunters to explore the city, tradecraft, and operations that influenced wars hot and cold. Informing and entertaining, Spy Sites of New York City is a must-have guidebook to the espionage history of the Big Apple.

Author : David Fitz-Enz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761872582
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spy on Putney Bridge written by David Fitz-Enz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an aging mansion on the north side of London’s Putney Bridge, an old woman confesses a secret to her grandson, just returned home from the battlefields of World War II. Charlotte Stetchworth has always appeared to be a proper Englishwoman, though with a lively background as a suffragette and European traveler. Now, her grandson Freddy learns a sinister secret, that Charlotte and her son Rolly—Freddy’s father—were involved in a complex web of spying for the Germans starting in World War I. In this captivating novel by historian and Army veteran Colonel David Fitz-Enz, we follow Rolly throughout the European theater of World War I. Rags, as he is known to friends and colleagues, is assigned to the staff of Major General Avery Hilliard Hopewell, an inspector general for the British Army whose work takes him from the battlefields of France to Alexandria and Gallipoli and beyond. Rags’ travels lead him to army hospitals, a mysterious father figure, a beautiful nurse wracked with grief, and Churchill’s War Rooms. Along the way, he and Charlotte learn the art of spycraft and use any means necessary to keep their secret. But while Freddy is told his family’s covert history, he begins to suspect that Charlotte has just scratched the surface. Beginning his own investigation, Freddy learns that there is much more to discover about the spy on Putney Bridge.