Hayes, Paddy

Summary: In Queen of Spies, Paddy Hayes recounts the fascinating story of the evolution of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from World War II to the Cold War through the eyes of Daphne Park, one of its outstanding and most unusual operatives. He provides the reader with one of the most intimate narratives yet of how the modern SIS actually went about its business whether in Moscow, Hanoi,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARK, DAPHNE HAY

Stewart, Rory.

Summary: Explores the landscape of the author's home on the borderland between England and Scotland, known as the Marches, and the history, people, and conflicts that have shaped it.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.37 STE

Corera, Gordon.

Summary: A security correspondent for the BBC offers insight into the secret world of the agents and spies in Britain's MI6 from the early days of the Cold War, through the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall to the September 11 attacks.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1241 COR

Johnston, Antony.

Summary: They have become a phenomenon. The Alex Rider adventures are now bestsellers the world over, and the book that started it all, Stormbreaker, is soon to be a major motion picture. Now is your chance to see this book visualized in a brand-new format, with bold, edgy, manga-like illustrations that bring Alex Rider to life in a way not seen before. For existing fans of the series, this graphic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2006

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ALE

Corera, Gordon

Summary: The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II. Between 1941 and 1944, British intelligence dropped sixteen thousand homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 COR

Vogel, Steve

Summary: The author presents the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War--and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War--and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. Its code name was "Operation Gold," a wildly audacious...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.1273 VOG

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 VOG