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By Davis, Wes[2013], Crown Publishers Call No: 940.54 D265a Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the bleakest years of World War II, when it appeared that nothing could slow the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging ground for German domination of the Middle East. But German command had not counted on the eccentric band of British intelligence officers who would stand in their way, conducting audacious sabotage operations in the very shadow of the Nazi occupation force. The Ariadne Objective tells the remarkable story of the secret war on Crete from the perspective of these amateur soldiers--scholars, archaeologists, writers--who found themselves serving as spies in Crete because, as one of them put it, they had made "the obsolete choice of Greek at school": Patrick Leigh Fermor, a Byronic figure and future travel-writing luminary who as a teenager had walked across Europe in the midst of Hitler's rise to power; John Pendlebury, a swashbuckling archaeologist with a glass eye and a swordstick, who had been legendary archeologist Arthur Evans's assistant at Knossos before the war; Xan Fielding, a writer who would later produce the English translations of books like Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes ; and Sandy Rendel, a future Times of London reporter, who prided himself on a disguise that left him looking more ragged and fierce than the Cretan mountaineers he fought alongside. Infiltrated into occupied Crete, these British gentleman spies teamed with Cretan partisans to carry out a cunning plan to disrupt Nazi maneuvers, culminating in a daring, high-risk plot to abduct the island's German commander.
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By Marks, Leo2000., Simon & Schuster Call No: 940.54 M346b Edition: First Touchstone ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[1971], Harper & Row Call No: 940.548 D359c Edition: [1st U.S. ed.] Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c1995, Hutchinson Call No: Fic Har Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A thrilling, sophisticated novel of suspense built around the true story of the frantic British effort in World War II to crack the Nazis' impenetrable Enigma code.
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2017., Adult, Harper Call No: MYS Fic Win Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Maisie Dobbs novel Volume: 13Summary Note: "Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War. In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the 'last war,' a new kind of refugee--an evacuee from London--appears in Maisie's life. The little girl billeted at Maisie's home in Kent does not, or cannot, speak, and the authorities do not know who the child belongs to or who might have put her on the 'Operation Pied Piper' evacuee train. They know only that her name is Anna. As Maisie's search for the killer escalates, the country braces for what is to come. Britain is approaching its gravest hour--and Maisie could be nearing a crossroads of her own."--From publisher.
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1968., W. Kimber Call No: 940.5 D739i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Classics of World War II.
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-- Ken Follett unabridged CD collection.2008., Brilliance Audio Call No: CD Fic Fol Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lie down with lions: An American man, a French physician, and a English woman are terrorized by the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
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-- Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII.By Helm, Sarah2005., Nan A. Talese Call No: Bio A873h Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britainœs premiere secret agents during World War II.As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistance in Nazi-occupied France. After the war, Atkins courageously committed herself to a dangerous search for twelve of her most cherished women spies who had gone missing in action. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Sarah Helm chronicles Atkinsœs extraordinary life and her singular journey through the chaos of post-war Europe. Brimming with intrigue, heroics, honor, and the horrors of war, A Life in Secrets is the story of a grand, elusive woman and a tour de force of investigative journalism.
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c1974., Harper & Row Call No: 940.542 W7875u Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Untold story of two elite agents who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII.By Ayed, Nahlah2024., Adult, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada Call No: NEW 940.54 A974w Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Love, betrayal, and a secret war: the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most decorated wartime couples of WWII.
