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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD The “gripping” (The New York Times) true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past—from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling...

Kim Philby est un important officier du Secret Intelligence Service (SIS ou MI6) britannique. Il devient célèbre lorsqu'est révélé qu'il a été un agent des services de renseignement soviétiques, tout le long de sa carrière. Philby est affecté au poste de Premier Secrétaire à Washington en 1949. Les Américains le soupçonne d'avoir transmis aux Soviétiques des informations confidentielles sur le programme nucléaire militaire et de leur avoir dénoncé différentes opérations de déstabilisation de l'URSS.

Read by Ali Velshi and Joe Knezevich Edited and introduced by MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging documents brought by the Department of Justice and the Fulton County (GA) and Manhattan (NY) district attorneys—a riveting and shocking narrative of the...

In March 1944, as the Nazis occupied Paris, the French Police and Fire Brigade were called to investigate a vile-smelling black smoke that had been pouring from the chimney of 21 Rue Le Sueur for days. The thick black smoke was rising from a series of wood-burning stoves throughout the property that were stocked with human remains. The homeowner was Dr. Marcel Petiot, an admired and charismatic physician. When questioned, Dr. Petiot claimed that he was a part of the Resistance and the bodies they discovered belonged to Nazi collaborators that he killed for the cause.

'The Mueller report is that rare Washington tell-all that surpasses its pre-publication hype…the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency.' Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff of The Washington Post, and...

Les cinq de Cambridge est un groupe d'espionnage composé de cinq étudiants de l'université de Cambridge recrutés par le KGB durant les années 1930. Ils travaillèrent pour le KGB durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la Guerre froide. Découvrez l'histoire extraordinaire de Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt et John Caincross, ces 5 agents qui ont réussi à pénétrer les plus hautes sphères de l'établissement de renseignement britannique.

The “riveting, meticulously researched, and beautifully written” (Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy and the Traitor) true story chronicles the first and most legendary prisoner exchange of the Cold War, between East and West at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie “A...

In a tour de force of investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Edward Snowden’s astonishing story Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the...

In December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson, Eagle Four was part of a strategy aimed at transforming public suspicion of security forces into something like awed respect.

The official report from the House Intelligence Committee on Donald Trump’s secret pressure campaign against Ukraine, featuring an exclusive introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and biographer Jon Meacham For only the fourth time in American history, the House of Representatives has...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle. Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin “[A Spy Among...

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War ...

A handsome Italian film producer and a beautiful Mexican dancer. A match made on a movie set and a lavish Beverly Hills wedding. The beginning of Camille FranzeseÆs story takes on the shade of an exotic fairy tale. But a closer look at her marriage to mafia capo Michael Franzese exposes more...

Rudolf Heß Gefangener Nr. 7 Am 10. Mai 1941 flog Rudolf Heß allein nach Schottland, um Friedensverhandlungen mit den Briten aufzunehmen. Er wurde gefangen genommen und bis zu seinem angeblichen Selbstmord am 17. August 1987 inhaftiert. 20 Jahre später bricht der tunesische Krankenpfleger von Heß erstmals sein Schweigen: Auf Bitten von Heß hatte Abdallah Melaouhi damals zahlreiche Kassiber aus dem Spandauer Gefängnis geschmuggelt.

Le Mossad, pour "Institut pour les renseignements et les affaires spéciales" en hébreu, est l'une des trois agences de renseignement d'Israël, avec le Shabak (plus connu sous le nom de "Shin Beth", qui est le service de sécurité intérieure) et l'Aman (chargé de la sécurité militaire). Contrairement au gouvernement, au parlement (Knesset), à l'Armée de défense d'Israël (Tsahal) et à l'agence de sécurité intérieure (Shin Bet), les objectifs, la structure et les pouvoirs du Mossad sont exemptés des lois constitutionnelles de l'État.

Robert Hanssen, né à Chicago en 1944, est un agent double américain du FBI, condamné à perpétuité en 2002 pour espionnage au profit de l'URSS et de la Russie. Son principal travail fut de monnayer des secrets américains pour les Russes. Il toucha ainsi près de 2 millions de dollars.

Richard Vaux has done his share of dirty work, but nothing like this. His employer, Trans World Airlines, wants him and a crew to sneak into Beirut, Lebanon, at the height of a civil war, to reclaim an airplane hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. TWA can't say for sure whether the plane will fly or whether it has been wired to explode in flight. And that's assuming they aren't attacked by one or more of the rival militias who pass the time shooting at each other across the tarmac, but only because there haven't been any Americans to kidnap in a while.

The untold WWII story of a former NFL player turned White House insider who worked with Churchill’s undercover agents in New York City to conduct the biggest foreign spy operation ever within the US, and inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond, for fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson. As a tough...

L'Opération Oiseau bleu ou la "Force K" fut mise en œuvre par le SDECE (services secrets français) en 1956, deuxième année de la guerre d'indépendance de l'Algérie. Le projet, élaboré semble-t-il à la fin 1955 au niveau du Gouvernement Général de l'Algérie, envisage de détacher de la rébellion du FLN plusieurs centaines de Kabyles puis de les transformer en commandos clandestins, opérant avec des tenues et des armes analogues à celles de l'ALN, le bras armé du FLN, et chargés de mettre en œuvre un véritable "contre-maquis" en Kabylie baptisé "Oiseau bleu" ou "Force K" comme "Kabyle".

ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The Crucial #1 New York Times Bestseller “The Mueller report is that rare Washington tell-all that surpasses its pre-publication hype…the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency.” —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post The only...