Author: Patricia B. Duncan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788476617
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Genealogical Abstracts from The Democratic Mirror and The Mirror, Loudoun County, Virginia: 1891-1899
Author: Patricia B. Duncan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788476617
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788476617
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois
Author: Newton Bateman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Washington's Spies
Author: Alexander Rose
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 055339259X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors—including the spymaster at the heart of it all. In the summer of 1778, with the war poised to turn in his favor, General George Washington desperately needed to know where the British would strike next. To that end, he unleashed his secret weapon: an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy’s battle plans and military strategy. Washington’s small band included a young Quaker torn between political principle and family loyalty, a swashbuckling sailor addicted to the perils of espionage, a hard-drinking barkeep, a Yale-educated cavalryman and friend of the doomed Nathan Hale, and a peaceful, sickly farmer who begged Washington to let him retire but who always came through in the end. Personally guiding these imperfect everyday heroes was Washington himself. In an era when officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn’ t spy, he possessed an extraordinary talent for deception—and proved an adept spymaster. The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. The British secret service tried to hunt them down, but they escaped by the closest of shaves thanks to their ciphers, dead drops, and invisible ink. Rose’s thrilling narrative tells the unknown story of the Revolution–the murderous intelligence war, gunrunning and kidnapping, defectors and executioners—that has never appeared in the history books. But Washington’s Spies is also a spirited, touching account of friendship and trust, fear and betrayal, amid the dark and silent world of the spy.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 055339259X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors—including the spymaster at the heart of it all. In the summer of 1778, with the war poised to turn in his favor, General George Washington desperately needed to know where the British would strike next. To that end, he unleashed his secret weapon: an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy’s battle plans and military strategy. Washington’s small band included a young Quaker torn between political principle and family loyalty, a swashbuckling sailor addicted to the perils of espionage, a hard-drinking barkeep, a Yale-educated cavalryman and friend of the doomed Nathan Hale, and a peaceful, sickly farmer who begged Washington to let him retire but who always came through in the end. Personally guiding these imperfect everyday heroes was Washington himself. In an era when officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn’ t spy, he possessed an extraordinary talent for deception—and proved an adept spymaster. The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. The British secret service tried to hunt them down, but they escaped by the closest of shaves thanks to their ciphers, dead drops, and invisible ink. Rose’s thrilling narrative tells the unknown story of the Revolution–the murderous intelligence war, gunrunning and kidnapping, defectors and executioners—that has never appeared in the history books. But Washington’s Spies is also a spirited, touching account of friendship and trust, fear and betrayal, amid the dark and silent world of the spy.
Notes and Queries
Author: William Henry Egle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This is Ewers (Yours).
Author: Dorothy Wood Ewers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
History of Daviess and Gentry Counties, Missouri
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daviess County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daviess County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
Throckmorton Family History
Author: Sara Frances Grimes Sitherwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A History of Chapman and Alexander Families
Author: Sigismunda Mary Frances Chapman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258483739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258483739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Memoirs of François René
Author: François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
History of Cass County, Missouri
Author: Allen Glenn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description