Ben Macintyre: 19 books
Ben Macintyre's World War II Espionage Files
Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, two thrilling accounts of World War II espionage, are available together as an ebook—with an excerpt from the New York Times bestseller Double Cross.
AGENT ZIGZAG • “Wildly improbably but entirely true . . . [a] compellingly cinematic spy thriller...
by Ben Macintyre
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 10, 2012
HET WARE OORLOGSVERHAAL VAN EDDIE CHAPMAN: SPION, VERRADER, MINNAAR, BEDRIEGER Op een decembernacht in 1942 landt een nazi-parachutist op een Engelse akker. Zijn missie: het saboteren van de Britse oorlogsinspanning. Zijn naam: Eddie Chapman, een Engelse crimineel die zijn diensten heef aangeboden...
Operatie mincemeat
hoe tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog een lijk de Duitsers om de tuin leidde
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Een briljante misleidingsoperatie die het verloop van de oorlog DRASTISCH veranderde Op 30 april 1943 ziet een visser vlak voor de Spaanse kust een lijk drijven. Eenmaal aan land gebracht wordt het lichaam geïdentificeerd als de Britse officier William Martin van de Royal Marines. Een leren aktetas...
Een spion onder vrienden
Kim Philby, de grootste dubbelagent aller tijden
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Met een nawoord van John le Carré Kim Philby, een van de grootste dubbelspionnen aller tijden: een briljante en charmante man, die tijdens de Koude Oorlog de Britse antispionage tegen de Sovjet-Unie leidde. Ondertussen werkte hij echter heimelijk voor de Russische geheime dienst. Niemand vermoedde...
SAS: helden en schurken
Hoe de speciale Britse eenheid de nazi's saboteerde en de uitkomst van de oorlog bepaalde
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Met nooit eerder gepubliceerd materiaal. Voor het eerst wordt het ware verhaal verteld achter de geheime eenheid van de SAS die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog undercover ging bij de vijand
Een verhaal over echte helden, achtervolgingen, spionage en explosies
In de zomer van 1941, op...
Double Cross
The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
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 it.
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly...
A Spy Among Friends
Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story.
Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height...
The Spy and the Traitor
The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“The best true spy story I have ever read.”**—JOHN LE CARRÉ
The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end...
Forgotten Fatherland
The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich’s bigoted, imperious sister, founded a “racially pure” colony in Paraguay together with a band of blonde-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of...
Rogue Heroes
The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The incredible untold story of WWII’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue
Britain’s Special Air Service—or SAS—was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic...
by Ben Macintyre
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated— Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces...
The Man Who Would Be King
The First American in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
The Riveting Account of the American Who Inspired Kipling's Classic Tale and the John Huston Movie
In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush in the mountainous wilds of Afghanistan....
The Englishman's Daughter
A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2002
"I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade." Alan Seeger, 1916
In the first days of World War I four soldiers, left behind as the British army retreated through northern France under the first German onslaught, found themselves trapped on the wrong side of the Western...
For Your Eyes Only
Ian Fleming and James Bond
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
'I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories'
One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born and would go on to become one of the most successful, enduring and lucrative creations...
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