Spy Memoir

La vicenda del generale Alberto Pollio è una perfetta spy story dai contorni foschi, aperta a un'infinità di congetture che richiamano fin troppo da vicino le pellicole di 007. Eppure la storia di Pollio non sarebbe giunta fino a noi se non si fosse verificato un concatenarsi di eventi che portarono ad aprire un'indagine sulle circostanze misteriose della sua morte.

Ebenezer Allen: Statesman, Entrepreneur, and Spy is the long-overdue biography of Texas attorney Ebenezer Allen. After graduating from Dartmouth College, Allen relocated to Texas and became involved with the nation's politics. He served as attorney general and secretary of state for Anson Jones and helped coordinate the state's annexation by the United States. After statehood, Allen became the state's first elected attorney general.

Louis is a gripping story of the life of a professional wartime spy. From his boyhood education in Egypt in the early 1900s, he was being prepared to serve in the newly formed British Secret Service Bureau on the orders of Abbas II Hilmi, the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, as part of a secret arrangement with the British government to supply young operatives for the newly formed bureau.

In November 1974, British MP and former cabinet minister John Stonehouse walked into the sea off a beach in Miami and disappeared, seemingly drowned. Then he was found—on the other side of the world, in Australia—and his extraordinary story began to come to light: a Labour cabinet minister and a devoted family man, also in a long-term affair with his secretary, and a spy for the Czech State Security agency, who had committed fraud and attempted to fake his own death to escape catastrophic business failures.

And the Rest Is History takes listeners on a traveling circus from Paris to Beirut, Baghdad, and beyond, introducing them to spies and terrorists, arms dealers and crooks, and along the way reveals a few surprises about the secret underbelly of recent history you won’t find in WikiLeaks. This book pinpoints precisely when the era of “fake news” actually began in America, and will change the way you think about journalism and journalists.

Mata Hari. La espía que murió fusilada es la historia de una enigmática y seductora mujer que con su belleza y bailes exóticos transformó la danza moderna y quien, por otro lado, durante la Primera Guerra Mundial realizó labores de espionaje a favor de Alemania. Lujos, extravagancias, dinero y amantes combinados con dolor, ausencia y muerte marcaron su existencia. Supo transformar sus debilidades en fortalezas y retar al sistema, convirtiéndose en un mito.

Em 1942, os Aliados estavam perdendo a guerra e a Alemanha parecia invencível. A inteligência britânica tinha espiões treinados em todo tipo de serviço, mas percebeu que, para vencer, era necessário tomar uma medida sem precedentes: recrutar agentes do sexo feminino. Trinta e nove mulheres responderam ao chamado, deixando suas vidas para se tornarem sabotadoras na França.