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EYE SPY Featured Books
ES896
Janet Morgan
This is the extraordinary true story of one of the most daring spying missions of the First World War, and the men and women who took part in it. Based on a remarkable archive of recently discovered papers, it is a work of historical detection, an enthralling drama of courage and adventure – and the only full account in existence of an Allied espionage operation during the war.
In February 1917 Captain George Bruce of British Military Intelligence was assigned to an unmarked office on Rue St Roch in Paris, from where he began to recruit agents to work in occupied territory. One of hiss first recruits was the unlikely heroine Madame Lise Richard: a middle-aged Luxembourg housewife who Bruce persuaded to set up a critical operation observing the movement of German troops and weapons to the Western Front. She was soon joined by one of the most dashing and colorful figures of this or any war: Albert Baschwitz Meau, an intrepid Belgian soldier who sailed over enemy lines in an un-powered balloon one night in Spring 1918. We are also introduced to other unexpected personalities , including Britain’s top military balloonist ‘Pink Tights’ Pollock; a schoolteacher turned encryption expert; and the friend of Proust and Cocteau, Miss Dorothy Done.
The Secrets of Rue St Roch is a moving tale of individuals in extraordinary circumstances; about working underground and outside the rules; and about the nature of bravery. Softback 304pgs.
£18.99/US$35.00
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ES897
How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle Eat
Jeremy Bowen
From the initial battle order issued to the Israeli air force on Monday, 5 June 1967, to the final ceasefire on the evening of Saturday 10th, the Six-Day War between Israel and Syria, Egypt and Jordan was a riveting human drama. Building on his first-hand experience of the region after his five years as the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent, as well as extensive original research, Jeremy Bowen now presents a brilliantly compelling new history of the conflict. Six Days re-creates day by day, hour by hour, the bullying and brinkmanship that led four nations to war – a war that shaped the modern Arab-Israeli conflict. Understanding 1967 is the key to deciphering what is happening today in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel.
As insightful as the best modern history writing and as gripping as fiction, this is a debut by an author with superb media contacts. Paperback 420 pages.
£10.48/US$22.00
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ES898
Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaeda
Chris Mackey with Greg Miller
John Murray
The methods of the US military in conducting the War on Terror have recently come under intense international scrutiny and criticism .But there is much that remains unclear about the realities on the ground, in those cramped cells in the midst of battle zones where terrorist suspects come head-to-head with trained interrogators. Now, for the first time, the inside story of this secret war is uncovered by Chris Mackey, a senior US Army interrogator in Afghanistan, who interviewed scores of Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects, many of whom were sent to Guantanamo Bay.
In Afghanistan the interrogators faced an enemy who, with tactics like sleeper cells and suicide bombers, were unlike any other they had seen. Working round the clock, Mackey and his team had to discard outmoded Cold War interrogation techniques and evolve breakthrough psychological strategies and complex mind games. But the interrogators too were under immense pressure; relentlessly pitching their wits against suspected fanatics, ever fearful that their prisoners might know of another 9/11, but constrained from unleasing their tempers by the Geneva Convention, it was not always just the prisones who cracked.
Mackey’s complelling picture of exhausting interrogations and pressure-cooker atmosphere which built up under the relentless Afghan sun gives a trobling insight into the temptations and obstacles in the path of sound military judgement. But it is also a testament to the strength of character of those many interrogators who remained professional, rational and played by the rules. Softback 484 pages.
£17.99/US$33.50
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ES905
Audley End House and SOE’s Polish Section
Ian Valentine
Audley End House in Essex - or Station 43 as it was known during the Second World War - was used as the principal training school for SOE's Polish Section between 1942 and 1944. Polish agents at Audley End undertook a series of arduous training courses in all aspects of guerrilla warfare before being parachuted into occupied Europe. In 1943, Audley End, or Secret Training Station 43, was placed exclusively under Polish control, a situation unique within SOE. The training was tough and the pass-rate low, but a total of 527 agents passed through Audley End between 1941 and 1945.
Author Ian Valentine has consulted a wide range of primary sources and interviewed dozens of Polish former agents who trained at Audley End, to write the definitive account of this Essex country house and the vital but secret part it played in defeating Hitler. Set against the background of Polish wartime history, he examines the comprehensive training of agents at Audley End and describes the work undertaken by Station 43's agents in Europe. He also covers the vital link with the RAF's Special Duties squadrons whose crews risked their lives dropping agents into occupied Europe. Station 43 breaks new ground in telling the hitherto untold story of Audley End House and its role as a vital SOE training school.
Hardback 209 pp
£21.99/$37.00
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ES906
The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler’s Greatest General
Michael Asher
This is the true story of Operation Flipper, the secret British plot to kill Rommel in 1941. In this extraordinary story Michael Asher reveals how poor planning and incompetence in high places led to disaster in the desert.
By the summer of 1941 Rommel was Hitler’s favorite general. Not only had he driven the British out of Libya but he had pushed then right back to their Egyptian base. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him killed.
The British opened their counter-attack with a series of Special Forces raids, including the first ever operation by the newly formed SAS, who had no idea this was effectively a suicide mission. SAS sabotage teams were parachuted close to the German airfields – the task was to knock out the air forces on the ground. But it all went horribly wrong and only a handful of brave soldiers escaped back to British lines to tell their story.
Michael Asher, former member of the SAS and the Parachute Regiment, top desert explorer and bestselling author of the Real Bravo Two Zero, reveals the truth behind the brave but impractical plan to send a commando team deep into the desert to assassinate General Rommel. It made for a fantastic adventure story, but was only rescued from utter disaster by valour of the men involved: few of them survived. Hardback 303 pp.
£23.00/$38.00
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