This is the true story of a disillusioned East German superspy driven by his conscience to turn double agent for the West. Werner Stiller was a student recruited into the Ministry of State Security -- the powerful Stasi -- to acquire nuclear weapon secrets in Western Europe in the 1970s. He learned firsthand that the Stasi constituted a vast, privileged underground world based on fear & intimidation. The book reveals the actual tools & methods spies use to do their work. It is a concise, intelligent, & pointed account of the once all-powerful Stasi & a uniquely personal window into the real world of successful espionage.

Beyond the Wall: Memoirs of an East and West German Spy

Biographies & Memoirs

Werner Stiller

Jefferson Adams

Historical

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This is a fast-paced, colorful memoir by one of the few Americans to live in Vietnam during both the French & American wars. In the 1950s, Foreign Service officer Howard Simpson patrolled with French paratroopers, reported on Hanoi s fall to the Vietminh, & was nearly machine-gunned in street fighting. In the 1960s, at a time when coups were the order of the day, he was a press advisor to Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh. When he returned to Vietnam recently to observe the shooting of a movie about Dien Bien Phu, he interviewed the legendary Vo Nguyen Giap, the architect of the North s victory. Lively . . . entertaining.

Tiger in the Barbed Wire: An American in Vietnam, 1952-1991

Howard R. Simpson

September 1944: perched on the wing of his stricken torpedo bomber, 3,000 feet above a Pacific Ocean teeming with hostile ships, Ensign George Bush prepares to leap into destiny. One yank of his rip cord later, he is prey to a Japanese armada, intent on his capture & interrogation. The story is true. A patriotic young man volunteers for hazardous assignment, knocks out enemy war ships, & collects a pile of medals. His inspiration is his fiance, Barbara, for whom he names his plane. Discover for yourself the gallantry, conflict, & drama that molded our former President in a fascinating & insightful recollection. Over 100 photos.

George Bush: His World War II Years

Robert B. Stinnett

Leaders & Notable People

An in-depth overview of the major insurgent or terrorist movements in Latin America since the Cuban Revolution. Part I contents: revolutionaries, patterns & methods of terrorism, mutations & evolution of political warfare, typology of leftist violence, & anti-Marxist violence. Part II is a handbook of revolutionary organizations in 13 countries. Information on: location, origins, front organizations, membership, leadership, ideology, propaganda, views on violence, military structure, performance, training, logistics & equipment, recruitment & popular support, external support, relations with other groups, factionalism, & trends & assessment.

Latin American Revolutionaries: Groups, Goals, Methods

Michael Radu

Vladimir Tismăneanu

Glen gives the inside story behind the making of 8 Bond movies with candid behind-the-scene stories. Glen directed all 5 Bond movies during the 1980s, including For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, & License to Kill. His Bond association goes back to being involved in the making of On Her Majesty s Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me, & Moonraker. Includes filming details of some of the most memorable stunts ever committed to film, along with stills & storyboards. But even more, this is the story of a life in film, ranging from TV shows Danger Man & Man in a Suitcase through film classics The Third Man, The Italian Job & Superman, to films with Marlon Brando & Richard Burton. Illus.

For My Eyes Only

John Glen

Atlantic Kingdom pays tribute to the Americans who challenged Cunard, the shipping company that held a monopoly on North Atlantic trade routes in the nineteenth century. In an era when civilisation first grappled with large-scale technology and creative industries promised a new standard of living, competition for control over maritime trade was fierce. Cornelius Vanderbilt and P. T. Barnum were among those who battled like mythical gods for control of their domains. These titans of the Atlantic left behind them a wreckage of human lives, lost ships, and squandered fortunes in their failed bids for supremacy of the seas.

Atlantic Kingdom: Americas Contest with Cunard in the Age of Sail and Steam

Engineering & Transportation

John Butler

Transportation

During World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, Richard W. Cutler was an officer with the elite X-2 counterintelligence branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and with its successor, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU). Counterspy offers a rare firsthand account of the secret war against Hitler and the postwar competition with the Soviets for German intelligence assets. While with X-2, Cutler analyzed the super-secret Ultra intercepts and vetted agents about to be sent into Nazi Germany. Cutler provides an insightful overview of OSS operations during the war and their contribution to the Allies’ victory. This is also one of the few books to describe the role of the OSS and the SSU in the postwar occupation of Germany. Cutler’s first job after the German surrender was to vet all of Allen Dulles’s wartime sources inside Germany, who were aptly nicknamed the Crown Jewels. Just as the OSS was reorganized into the SSU, Cutler moved to Berlin, where his first task was to collect intelligence from former Nazis. Soon he became chief of counterespionage in Berlin. Soviet intelligence had already begun recruiting former German intelligence officers to spy on Americans, so Cutler’s top priority was to uncover Soviet objectives and either neutralize or double their agents. Cutler reveals previously unpublished case histories of double agents against Soviet intelligence and details agents’ recruitment, missions, methods of operation, successes and failures, and fates. All of these events are recounted against the fascinating background of postwar Germany. He provides a vivid picture of the mood of the German people, how they rationalized war guilt, and how they coped with the devastation throughout the country. With photographs and a foreword by bestselling author Joseph E. Persico (Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage), Counterspy is a unique account of espionage during the momentous years of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.

Counterspy: Memoirs of a Counterintelligence Officer in World War II and the Cold War

Richard Cutler

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