Covert and Special Ops

109 East Palace PB by Jennet ConantPaperback 448 PagesMay 2006 From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the story of the three-thousand people who lived together in near confinement for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert...

40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles by Joseph Tachovsky with Cynthia KraackPaperback338 PagesAugust 2021 An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky’s “40...

A Covert Affair by Jennet ConantPaperback416 PagesNovember 2011 When Julia and Paul Child Joined the OSS they had no way of knowning that their adventures with the spy service would lead them to a world of intrigue and, because of one idealistic but...

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War IIby Sonia PurnellHardcover368 Pages2019 The never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of...

Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime SpyBen MacintyreHardback432 Pages2021 The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent...

Agent ZigzagBen MacintyrePaperback364 Pages2008 “Ben Macintyre’s rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus-spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of Evelyn Waugh.”—William...

American Commando: Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission John Wukovits Paperback 368 Pages 2010 Before the Green Berets...Before the Navy SEALs...Before the Army Rangers...There was the Long Patrol...

Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris Alex Kershaw Paperback 320 Pages 2016 The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied...

Bletchley Park Brainteasers: Over 100 puzzles, riddles, and enigmas inspired by the greatest minds of World War II  by Sinclair McKayPaperback288 PagesNovember 2018 Do you fancy mastering morse code? Discovering whether your crossword hobby might...

D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabatoged the Nazis, and helped Win World War IIby Sarah Rosehardcover400 pages2019 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain’s elite...

Double CrossBen MacintyrePaperback399 Pages2013 In Double Cross, New York Times bestselling author Ben Macintyre returns with the untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II, and of the extraordinary spies who achieved...

Engineering Hitler's Downfall: The Brains that Enabled Victoryby Gwilym RobertsPaperback240 PagesFebruary 2019 Whilst living in Liverpool, Britain's second most heavily bombed city during World War II, the author experienced at first-hand the terrible...

Enigma: The Untold Story of the Secret Capture David Balme Paperback 144 Pages 2017 David Balme will be forever known as the 20-year-old hero who, on 9 May 1941, boarded a German U-boat in mid-Atlantic, and captured one of the greatest secrets of...

  MacArthur's Spies: The Soldiers, the Singers, and the Spymasters Who Defied the Japanese in World War II Paperback368 pagesby Peter Eisner   "MacArthur's Spies reads like Casablanca set in the Pacific, filled with brave and...

Operation Crossbow: The Untold Story of the Search for Hitler's Secret Weapons Allan Williams Paperback 450 Pages 2014 For the first time, the real story behind the top-secret World War II operations Crossbow and Bodyline, and how photographic...

Operation MincemeatBen MacintyrePaperback432 Pages2011 “Pure catnip to fans of World War II thrillers and a lot of fun for everyone else.”—Joseph Kanon, The Washington Post Book WorldNear the end of World War II, two British naval...

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Broguht Nazi Scientist to AmericaBy: Annie JacobsenHardcover592 Pages2014The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times...

Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America's Special Operations Forces Mark Moyar Hardcover 432 Pages 2017 Oppose Any Foe is the epic story of America's most elite warriors: the Special Operations Forces. Born as small appendages to the conventional...

Prisoners of the CastleBen MacintyreHardback368 Pages2022 In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz...

Rogue HeroesBen MacintyrePaperback400 Pages2017 “Reads like a mashup of The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, with a sprinkling of Ocean’s 11 thrown in for good measure.”—Michiko Kakutani, The...

Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionageby Joseph PeriscoPaperback592 PagesOctober 2002Despite all that has already been written on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Persico has uncovered a hitherto overlooked dimension of FDR's wartime...

Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War Hal Vaughan Paperback 336 Pages 2012 This explosive narrative reveals for the first time the shocking hidden years of Coco Chanel’s life: her collaboration with the Nazis in Paris, her affair with...

Luftwaffe KG 200: The German Air Force's Most Secret Unit of World War IIGeoffery Thomas, Barry KerleyPaperback336 Pages Shrouded in secrecy during World War II and obscured by myth ever since, Kampfgeschwader 200 (200th Bomb Wing) remains one of the...

Spy fo No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World by Dave LindorffHardcover302 PagesNovember 2023 At 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at...

The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II By Patrick O'Donnell Paperback 320 pages 2009 An impossible missionBehind enemy linesThe never-before-told true story of a small team of American saboteurs with...

The GCHQ Puzzle Book: Pit Your Wits Against the People Who Cracked EngimaPaperbackMarch 2019368 PagesGCHQ is a top-secret intelligence and security agency which recruits some of the very brightest minds. Over the years, their codebreakers have helped...

The Great Secret HCJennet Conant 400 Pages2020 The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy...

The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime WashingtonBy Jennet ConantPaperback 416 PagesSeptember 2009 Following her extraordinary, bestselling, and much-acclaimed accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War,...

The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal Howard Blum Hardcover 528 Pages 2016 The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting...

The Manhattan Project (Heroes of World War II) by Matt DoedenHardcover32 PagesAugust 2018Ages: 8-12 yearsGrade: 3-6 The Manhattan Project produced the world's first nuclear weapons. The US military later dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, effectively...

The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando Paul Kix Hardcover 304 Pages 2017 In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy...

The Spy Toolkit: Extraordinary inventions from World War II by The National Archives and Stephen TwiggeHardcover157 PagesMay 2018 A revealing, sometimes sinister and often hilarious look at the gadgets and devices devised to help spies in their...

The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a NaziBy: Daniel LeeHardcover320 Pages2020 Based on documents discovered concealed within a simple chair for seventy years, this gripping investigation into the life of a single S.S. officer...

Tuxedo Park PB by Jennet ConantPaperback352 PagesMay 2003The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they...

Voices of the Codebreakers: Personal accounts of the secret heroes of World War II Michael Paterson Paperback 304 Pages 2018 Alongside the open conflict of World War II there were other, hidden wars - the wars of communication, in which success...

Wen Bon: A Naval Intelligence Officer Behind Japanese Lines in China in WWII by Bryon R Winborn (Author)Hardcover253 PagesNovember 1994 Winborn was a Naval lieutenant attached to the 14th Army Air Force to serve as a Technical Air Intelligence inspector...

Women in War: From Home Front to Front Line By: Celia Lee and Paul Strong Forward By: Gary Sheffield Paperback387 pages2012 The changing role of women in warfare, a neglected aspect of military history, is the subject of this collection of...

World War II Code Breakers (Heroes of World War II) by Lisa L. OwensHardcover32 pagesAugust 2018Ages: 8-12Grade: 3-6 Discover the true stories of code breakers who worked behind the scenes during World War II. Men and women cracked enemy codes in order...