Author: Jennifer Swanson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547603437
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In the late 1930s, times were desperate. The world found itself at war again, less than twenty years after the first World War had ended. No one could quite believe it. And no one wanted it. The leaders of every country involved were left with no choice. They had to try to end the war as fast as possible, using whatever means they could. That meant coming up with secret operations meant to deceive, deflect, and confuse their enemies. Poison the cattle that the Germans eat? Deliberately float a corpse dressed up as a spy across the water to have it wash up on Germany's shore? Create a unit of top secret commandos with a license to kill? These were all real tactics attempted with the ultimate goal of defeating Hitler. In this off-center look at history, readers will be captivated by the classified and covert efforts made by each side as they tried to gain the upper hand and win the war. Restricted access is lifted to give the reader a peek into the top secret operations of the daring men and women who fought the war under a cloak of secrecy.
Spies, Lies, and Disguise
Author: Jennifer Swanson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547603437
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In the late 1930s, times were desperate. The world found itself at war again, less than twenty years after the first World War had ended. No one could quite believe it. And no one wanted it. The leaders of every country involved were left with no choice. They had to try to end the war as fast as possible, using whatever means they could. That meant coming up with secret operations meant to deceive, deflect, and confuse their enemies. Poison the cattle that the Germans eat? Deliberately float a corpse dressed up as a spy across the water to have it wash up on Germany's shore? Create a unit of top secret commandos with a license to kill? These were all real tactics attempted with the ultimate goal of defeating Hitler. In this off-center look at history, readers will be captivated by the classified and covert efforts made by each side as they tried to gain the upper hand and win the war. Restricted access is lifted to give the reader a peek into the top secret operations of the daring men and women who fought the war under a cloak of secrecy.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547603437
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In the late 1930s, times were desperate. The world found itself at war again, less than twenty years after the first World War had ended. No one could quite believe it. And no one wanted it. The leaders of every country involved were left with no choice. They had to try to end the war as fast as possible, using whatever means they could. That meant coming up with secret operations meant to deceive, deflect, and confuse their enemies. Poison the cattle that the Germans eat? Deliberately float a corpse dressed up as a spy across the water to have it wash up on Germany's shore? Create a unit of top secret commandos with a license to kill? These were all real tactics attempted with the ultimate goal of defeating Hitler. In this off-center look at history, readers will be captivated by the classified and covert efforts made by each side as they tried to gain the upper hand and win the war. Restricted access is lifted to give the reader a peek into the top secret operations of the daring men and women who fought the war under a cloak of secrecy.
Spy Disguises
Author: Simon Tudhope
Publisher: Usborne Minis
ISBN: 9781474985321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Usborne Minis
ISBN: 9781474985321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Spies, Lies, and Disguise
Author: Jennifer Swanson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
ISBN: 9781681197791
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
ISBN: 9781681197791
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Spies, Lies, and Allies: A Love Story
Author: Lisa Brown Roberts
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
ISBN: 9781633756984
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Summers are supposed to be fun, right? Not mine. I’ve got a job at my dad’s company, which is sponsoring a college scholarship competition. I just found out that, in addition to my job assisting the competing interns, I’m supposed to vote for the winner. Totally not what I signed up for. My boss is running the competition like it’s an episode of Survivor. Then there’s Carlos, who is, well, very distracting––in a good way. But I can’t even think about him like that because fraternizing on the job means instant disqualification for the intern involved. As if that’s not enough, an anonymous informant with insider intel is trying to sabotage my dad’s company on social media...and I’m afraid it's working. Much as I’d love to quit, I can’t. Kristoffs Never Quit is our family motto. I just hope there’s more than one survivor by the end of this summer.
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
ISBN: 9781633756984
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Summers are supposed to be fun, right? Not mine. I’ve got a job at my dad’s company, which is sponsoring a college scholarship competition. I just found out that, in addition to my job assisting the competing interns, I’m supposed to vote for the winner. Totally not what I signed up for. My boss is running the competition like it’s an episode of Survivor. Then there’s Carlos, who is, well, very distracting––in a good way. But I can’t even think about him like that because fraternizing on the job means instant disqualification for the intern involved. As if that’s not enough, an anonymous informant with insider intel is trying to sabotage my dad’s company on social media...and I’m afraid it's working. Much as I’d love to quit, I can’t. Kristoffs Never Quit is our family motto. I just hope there’s more than one survivor by the end of this summer.
Spies and Lies: Famous and Infamous Spies
Author: Susan K. Mitchell
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 146460407X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Did a family of four, including a six-year-old boy, spy on the U.S. military at Pearl Harbor during World War II? Is it possible that pigeons and mice could be used as spies? Some of the most famous and infamous spies in history are not what or whom you would expect. Author Susan K. Mitchell looks at many spies and their secrets from family spy rings to animal spies.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 146460407X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Did a family of four, including a six-year-old boy, spy on the U.S. military at Pearl Harbor during World War II? Is it possible that pigeons and mice could be used as spies? Some of the most famous and infamous spies in history are not what or whom you would expect. Author Susan K. Mitchell looks at many spies and their secrets from family spy rings to animal spies.
Secrets, Lies, Gizmos, and Spies
Author: Janet Wyman Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781865049892
Category : Espionage
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
'Secrets, Lies, Gizmos and Spies' is the secret history of spies and espionage throughout the ages. From the Trojan War to World War II, from James Bond to Austin Powers, all aspiring special agents will learn the unbelievable and unpredictable stories of the world's most famous spies, artful deceptions and classified operations. Featuring numerous photographs of disguised weapons, astonishing gadgets, tools and documents, as well as a guide to key terms, timeline, and two interviews with real spies, this heavily illustrated volume brings the death-defying stories of spies, moles and double agents to life. Heroes, villains or traitors - you decide!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781865049892
Category : Espionage
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
'Secrets, Lies, Gizmos and Spies' is the secret history of spies and espionage throughout the ages. From the Trojan War to World War II, from James Bond to Austin Powers, all aspiring special agents will learn the unbelievable and unpredictable stories of the world's most famous spies, artful deceptions and classified operations. Featuring numerous photographs of disguised weapons, astonishing gadgets, tools and documents, as well as a guide to key terms, timeline, and two interviews with real spies, this heavily illustrated volume brings the death-defying stories of spies, moles and double agents to life. Heroes, villains or traitors - you decide!
English Literature in the Age of Disguise
Author: Maximillian E. Novak
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520312937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520312937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
Spy Dust
Author: Antonio Mendez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743434587
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
From the author of the Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated Argo, a true-life thriller set against the backdrop of the Cold War, which unveils the life of an American spy from the inside and dramatically reveals how the CIA reestablished the upper hand over the KGB in the intelligence war. From the author of the Golden Globe winner and Academy Award winner Argo... Moscow, 1988. The twilight of the Cold War. The KGB is at its most ruthless, and has now indisputably gained the upper hand over the CIA in the intelligence war. But no one knows how. Ten CIA agents and double-agents have gone missing in the last three years. They have either been executed or they are unaccounted for. At Langley, several theories circulate as to how the KGB seems suddenly to have become telepathic, predicting the CIA's every move. Some blame the defection of Edward Lee Howard three years before, and suspect that there are more high-placed moles to be unearthed. Others speculate that the KGB's surveillance successes have been heightened by the invention of an invisible electromagnetic powder that allows them to keep tabs on anyone who touches it: spy dust. CIA officers Tony Mendez and Jonna Goeser come together to head up a team of technical wizards and operational specialists, determined to solve the mystery that threatens to overshadow the Cold War's final act. Working against known and unknown hostile forces, as well as some unfriendly elements within the CIA, they devise controversial new operational methods and techniques to foil the KGB, and show the extraordinary lengths that US intelligence is willing to go to protect a source, then rescue him when his world starts to collapse. At the same time, Tony and Jonna find themselves falling deeply in love. During a fascinating odyssey that began in Indochina fifteen years before and ends in a breathtakingly daring operation in the heart of the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, Spy Dust catapults the reader from the Hindu Kush to Hollywood, from Havana to Moscow, but cannot truly conclude until its protagonists are safely wedded in rural Maryland.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743434587
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
From the author of the Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated Argo, a true-life thriller set against the backdrop of the Cold War, which unveils the life of an American spy from the inside and dramatically reveals how the CIA reestablished the upper hand over the KGB in the intelligence war. From the author of the Golden Globe winner and Academy Award winner Argo... Moscow, 1988. The twilight of the Cold War. The KGB is at its most ruthless, and has now indisputably gained the upper hand over the CIA in the intelligence war. But no one knows how. Ten CIA agents and double-agents have gone missing in the last three years. They have either been executed or they are unaccounted for. At Langley, several theories circulate as to how the KGB seems suddenly to have become telepathic, predicting the CIA's every move. Some blame the defection of Edward Lee Howard three years before, and suspect that there are more high-placed moles to be unearthed. Others speculate that the KGB's surveillance successes have been heightened by the invention of an invisible electromagnetic powder that allows them to keep tabs on anyone who touches it: spy dust. CIA officers Tony Mendez and Jonna Goeser come together to head up a team of technical wizards and operational specialists, determined to solve the mystery that threatens to overshadow the Cold War's final act. Working against known and unknown hostile forces, as well as some unfriendly elements within the CIA, they devise controversial new operational methods and techniques to foil the KGB, and show the extraordinary lengths that US intelligence is willing to go to protect a source, then rescue him when his world starts to collapse. At the same time, Tony and Jonna find themselves falling deeply in love. During a fascinating odyssey that began in Indochina fifteen years before and ends in a breathtakingly daring operation in the heart of the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, Spy Dust catapults the reader from the Hindu Kush to Hollywood, from Havana to Moscow, but cannot truly conclude until its protagonists are safely wedded in rural Maryland.
Deception: Spies, Lies and Forgeries
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848884109
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
We have entered a ‘post-truth era’, in which, Daniel J. Boorstin notes, ‘believability’ has become an acceptable substitute for ‘truth’, and ‘manifold deceptions of our culture’ are difficult to separate from ‘its few enduring truths’. In this era, communities and individuals may feel routinely duped, cheated or betrayed. Though truth may be considered intrinsically valuable, deception may sometimes be useful or necessary. Sometimes there is pleasure in the spectacle of deception. The essays in this volume address a variety of areas, coming from different disciplines and methodological approaches: what unites them is the notion of deception. Deception is not just one thing: it can be used for personal liberation and expression; it can be use as a tool of state oppression and sometimes it is purely entertainment. We encounter deception every day of our lives: these essays explore some the ways in which we do.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848884109
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
We have entered a ‘post-truth era’, in which, Daniel J. Boorstin notes, ‘believability’ has become an acceptable substitute for ‘truth’, and ‘manifold deceptions of our culture’ are difficult to separate from ‘its few enduring truths’. In this era, communities and individuals may feel routinely duped, cheated or betrayed. Though truth may be considered intrinsically valuable, deception may sometimes be useful or necessary. Sometimes there is pleasure in the spectacle of deception. The essays in this volume address a variety of areas, coming from different disciplines and methodological approaches: what unites them is the notion of deception. Deception is not just one thing: it can be used for personal liberation and expression; it can be use as a tool of state oppression and sometimes it is purely entertainment. We encounter deception every day of our lives: these essays explore some the ways in which we do.
Spies, Code Breakers, and Secret Agents
Author: Carole P. Roman
Publisher: Callisto Media, Inc.
ISBN: 1646111028
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Uncover the secret agents of World War 2—an exciting history book for kids 8 to 12 Discover World War 2’s hidden heroes and villains. Spies, Code Breakers, and Secret Agents explores the intriguing world of spycraft and shows you what goes on behind the scenes in war. From spy schools and ciphers to sneaky tools and secret armies, this guide takes you on a declassified tour of the undercover operations that helped decide the outcome of World War 2. There’s also more than a dozen short spy-ographies that cover some of the most famous (and infamous!) agents that were active during the war. This World War 2 book for kids includes: Fun for aspiring historians―Dig into the causes of and what led up to World War 2 so you can better understand the important part spies played in it. A family-friendly exploration―Learn about history in a fun and accessible way that anyone can enjoy. Covert illustrations―Get an up-close look at actual spies, as well as some seriously amazing spy gear. Amaze your friends and family with all kinds of awesome facts about spies and secret agents from World War 2.
Publisher: Callisto Media, Inc.
ISBN: 1646111028
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Uncover the secret agents of World War 2—an exciting history book for kids 8 to 12 Discover World War 2’s hidden heroes and villains. Spies, Code Breakers, and Secret Agents explores the intriguing world of spycraft and shows you what goes on behind the scenes in war. From spy schools and ciphers to sneaky tools and secret armies, this guide takes you on a declassified tour of the undercover operations that helped decide the outcome of World War 2. There’s also more than a dozen short spy-ographies that cover some of the most famous (and infamous!) agents that were active during the war. This World War 2 book for kids includes: Fun for aspiring historians―Dig into the causes of and what led up to World War 2 so you can better understand the important part spies played in it. A family-friendly exploration―Learn about history in a fun and accessible way that anyone can enjoy. Covert illustrations―Get an up-close look at actual spies, as well as some seriously amazing spy gear. Amaze your friends and family with all kinds of awesome facts about spies and secret agents from World War 2.