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KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents
by John Barron
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Published
- 1974
- Binding
- Soft cover
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- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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$3.00
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Bantam Books, 1974. Soft cover. Fair. 623 pages, with index, bibliography. Paperback edition of book published early that year. Introduction by Robert Conquest. Sixteen pages of b&w photos. General history and profile of the Soviet intelligence agency, including description of its structure, as well as accounts of famous Cold War incidents, assassinations, etc. Mass-market paperback, exterior beat-up with tear at… Read more about this item Item Price
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Guns or Butter
by R.H. Bruce Lockhart
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1938
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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$12.00
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Little, Brown and Company, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 439 pages, with index. First American edition. Account by the famous British intelligence agent of his travels in Scandinavia, East Central Europe, and the Balkans on the eve of World War II. 8vo, metallic silver cloth with butter-yellow lettering, wear to crown/heel/corners, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, chips to… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
The Escape Room
by Airey Neave
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1980
- Binding
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780890836118
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- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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$5.00
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Zebra Books (Kensington Publishing Corp.), 1980. Soft cover. Good. 319 pages. First published 1969, first-hand account of British Intelligence's Room 900 operations to extract captured operatives and other POWs from Nazi-occupied Europe. Illustrated with black and white photos. Mass-market paperback, wraps worn, pages brown from age, a few pages accidentally creased at bottom, binding tight. Old pencil price… Read more about this item Item Price
$5.00
Deception in World War II
by Charles Cruickshank
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Published
- 1979
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- Hardcover
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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$8.00
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Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Good/Good. 248 pages, with index, select bibliography, list of primary sources. Three maps, 28 b&w illustrations on plates. Account of various deception operations in North Africa and occupied Europe; fake weapons and bases, false radio signals, etc., and the politics of Allied coordination in this field. 8vo, black material over boards with gilt… Read more about this item Item Price
$8.00
Frogman Spy: The Incredible Case of Commander Crabb
by J. Bernard Hutton
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1960
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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$12.00
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McDowell, Obolensky, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 180 pages. First printing stated. Eleven b&w illustrations - photos and document facsimiles. Account, written pseudonymously by the Czech former communist and former official in the Masaryk government Josef B. Heisler who had emigrated to the UK, of the Cold War disappearance of Cdr Lionel Crabb while diving to… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
Air America
by Christopher Robbins
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1985
- Binding
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780380899098
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- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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$6.00
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Avon Books, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 328 pages, with bibliography, index. "The explosive inside story of the CIA's supersecret airline" (front cover), first Avon printing of book published 1979. History from Cold |War period, especially Vietnam War. Mass-market paperback, edges tinted yellow, barely worn, binding tight, pages slightly age-toned but unmarked.
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$6.00
Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert Military Operations of the Reagan Era
by Steven Emerson
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1988
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780399133602
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- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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$8.00
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G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 256 pages, with index, glossary. Account by U.S. News and World Report editor ranges from Iran-Contra to freeing kidnap victims in Italy to other cover ops in Central America. Features "the private notebooks of Oliver North." Blue paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secretive Agency
by James Bamford
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Published
- 1982
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780395312865
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- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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$10.00
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 465 pages, with index, acronyms list. A study of the secretive National Security Agency. Medium 8vo (6-3/8" x 9-1/4"), maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, scant shelf wear, in price-clipped dust jacket with Brodart protective cover, stains to jacket on spine and a few smudges elsewhere. Former owner's name written… Read more about this item Item Price
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Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and the War on Terrorism
by Mark Hollingsworth; Nick Fielding
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Published
- 2004
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- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780233000107
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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$6.00
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André Deutsch Ltd, 2004. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 360 pages, with index and bibliography. Illustrated with b&w photos on four double-sided plates. A critical look at MI5, British domestic intelligence, after 9/11. Trade paperback, former library book with relevant stickers and stamps, wraps worn and creased, peeling to inside front cover, edges and page margins age-toned.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
by James Bamford
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 2009
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- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780307279392
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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$8.00
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Anchor Books (Doubleday-Random House), 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. 395 pages, with index. First paperback edition of book published the previous year. Addresses domestic surveillance excesses in the George W. Bush years. Trade paperback, very light wear along edges, pages bright and unmarked.
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Territory of Lies: The Rise, Fall, and Betrayal of Jonathan Jay Pollard
by Wolf Blitzer
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780061000249
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- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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$8.00
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Harper & Row, 1990. Soft cover. Good. 342 pages, illustrated with photographs on four double-sided plates. Mass-market paperback (Harper Paperbacks), rubbing along spine and especially to front wrap, which has two eroded patches (largest one 2" long), faint foxing to edges, edges and page margins age-toned, small singes to inside front cover and ffep. No markings observed to… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Cambridge Apostles: A History of Cambridge University's Elite Intellectual Secret Society
by Richard Deacon (Donald McCormick)
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1986
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780374118204
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- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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$7.00
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 214 pages, with index. 8vo, beige cloth in lightly worn DJ, very faint foxing to top edge. Former owners' names on front pastedown, binding tight, pages bright, underscoring and margin brackets on approximately 60 pages.
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$7.00