Spies : the secret agents who changed the course of history

 Content: Fritz Kauders: Triumph of the Schieber --
 H.A.R. Philby: The Mole's Mole --
 Anthony Blunt: "The Pope Wants You!" --
 Oleg Penkovsky: Soldier for Peace --
 George Blake: The Manchurian Candidate --
 Nikolai and Nadjeda Skoblin: Death and the Kursk Nightingale --
 Israel Beer: The Man Who Never Was --
 Vladimir I. Vetrov: The Murder of Line X --
 Afansy M. Shorikhov: Flight of the Football Fan --
 Igor Gouzenko: The First Man --
 Anatoli Golitsin: Even a Paranoid Has Enemies --
 Whittaker Chambers: The Man with Two Faces --
 Leiba Domb: The Red Orchestra --
 Wilhelm Wassmuss: The German Lawrence --
 Ian Fleming: Art Imitates Life --
 Dusko Popov: The Real James Bond --
 K W. Winterbotham: The Spy in the Sky --
 Amy Thorpe Pack: The Siren Spy --
 Richard Sorge: The Greatest of Them All --
 Ruth Kuczynski: The Radio in the Teddy Bear --
 Herbert Yardley: The American Black Chamber --
 Eric Erickson: The Counterfeit Traitor --
 Elsbeth Schragmueller: Fraulein Doktor --
 Margareta Zelle: Mata Hari, The Eye of Dawn --
 Wolfgang Lotz, Eliyahu Cohen: The Eyes of Israel --
 Larry Wu-Tai Chin: The Spy in the Casino --
 Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atomic Bomb --
 Alfred Redl: Feasting with Panthers --
 K'ang Sheng, Tai Li: Terror in China --
 Markus Wolf: The Hour of Karla --
 William Stephenson: The Saga of Intrepid --
 Claude Dansey: The King of Z --
 Feliks Dzerzhinsky, Jan Berzin: Midnight in Lubyanka --
 Kenji Doihara: The Snake in the Basket --
 Laventri Beria: "Give Me a Man" --
 Reinhard Heydrich: A Terrible Secret --
 Gabor Peter: The Hunchback of Budapest --
 Heinrich Mueller: A Nazi in Moscow --
 Rudolf Roessler: The Enigma of Lucy --
 Vitali Yurchenko: The Spy Who Changed His Mind --
 Nicolai F. Artamanov: The Double Agent Who Wasn't --
 Ernest Hemingway: Papa's Crook Factory --
 Graham Greene: Our Man in Havana --
 Giovanni Montini: The Pope as Spy --
 W. Somerset Maugham: Our Man in Petrograd.
 Abstract:             Spies have long existed in the popular imagination as glamorous and shadowy figures. But how much is known about the real-life practitioners of the "black art" of espionage? In this enthralling look into the world of covert intelligence, renowned historian of espionage Ernest Volkman strips away the myths and Hollywood hype to reveal the actual human dramas behind "the world's second oldest profession." Spies is a twentieth century "Hall of Infamy" packed with gripping.
True spy stories profiling many of this century's most notable agents, assets, sleepers, spymasters, and moles. These are the women and men whose espionage feats have, for better or worse, irrevocably altered the course of history. You'll read of the amazing exploits of legends such as:. "Counterfeit Traitor" Eric Erickson, the American businessman who, posing as a Swedish Nazi, helped stanch the flow of oil to Hitler's war machine and end the war in Europe;. Fritz.
Kauders, the Viennese Jew who went from being a small time confidence trickster to become one of Germany's most valued spies and a Soviet double agent;. Amy Thorpe, the gorgeous American debutante turned superspy;. British agent 17F, Ian Fleming, author of some of the most outrageous (and effective) "dirty tricks" in the annals of spydom;. Dutch housewife turned burlesque dancer, turned secret agent Margareta Zelle, a.k.a. Mata Hari, who, contrary to popular belief, was.
Neither beautiful nor a very good spy;. Brilliant Soviet superspy Richard Sorge, whose intelligence gathering operation in Japan balked Nazi Germany's attempt to seize Moscow. With wit and crisp, journalistic precision, Volkman recounts a number of surprising espionage curiosities, including Pope Paul VI's work for the C.I.A., Graham Greene's less than glorious stint as a British agent, and the bizarre story of "Papa's Crook Factory," Ernest Hemingway's amateur spy ring.
In Havana. Also included are pioneers of modern espionage such as the hard-hearted "Fraulein Doktor," Elsbeth Schragmueller. The mother of modern intelligence training, she was the creator of the "discard," the deliberate sacrifice of one agent to protect another more important one from detection. Her story, along with others such as those of Laventri Beria, architect of Stalin's police state, and of Claude Dansey, the cantankerous and much reviled spymaster of Britain's.
MI6, bring history to life. A solid reference work and an exciting read, Spies offers a uniquely intimate look into the shadowy world of espionage