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MAX CORVO OSS ITALY 1942-1945 978-1-929631-45-2 • hardcover 2005
$ 28.00
“This account is the story of the Italian Secret Intelligence Section of OSS, its relationship with other branches of the organization, and the evolution of U.S. policies which led to the establishment of the close relationship between Italy's postwar government and Washington. The forging of these links of friendship was tempered in countless underground battles waged against the Nazi-Fascist forces by OSS missions working in concert with Italian underground forces. Italy was the testing ground for OSS tactics and strategic concepts. The lessons learned there were successfully applied to similar undertakings in other parts of the world.” |
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MORTAL CRIMES- REVISED EDITION 978-1-929631-29-2 • hardcover 2004
$ 27.00 Stalin needed to steal the secrets of the Atomic Bomb to catch up with the West. Based on the Venona decrypts this book reveals the messages and replies of the spies and their managers back in Moscow. |
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MUSSOLINI: THE SECRETS OF HIS DEATH 978-1-929631-23-0 • hardcover 2004
$ 25.00 No formal inquest was ever made regarding the exact circumstances of Mussolini's death in 1945. Luciano Garibaldi explores all the possible theories and offers an explanation as controversy rages in Italy in 2006. |
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Nazi Palestine 978-1-929631-93-3 • trade paper, photographs, index, footnotes
$ 24.00 “It is to the credit of the two authors of this book […] that they have been assiduous in locating information either inaccessible or overlooked earlier.” Gerhard L. Weinberg The planned extermination of the Jews living in Palestine was only weeks away…. In 1941-42 Nazi Germany appeared to be invincible in North Africa many Arab nationalists looked to a leader, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, for guidance. The Mufti had several meetings with Adolf Hitler. Nazi Germany also pledged to wipe out the Jews who had been living in Palestine since time immemorial as well as the new arrivals from the beginning of the modern Zionist movement in the nineteenth century and following the Balfour Declaration in 1917. A special unit was assembled and trained in Greece in the spring of 1942 by SD officer Walter Rauff, the originator of the gassing van experiments in Poland and the Soviet Union. They were to operate behind the lines with the help of those in the region who were eager to join the task force. After El Alamein, the Einsatzkommando shifted its operations to Tunisia, where it implemented cruel anti-Jewish policies for many months. Over 2,500 Tunisian Jews were to die in the camps set up by the Nazis and their collaborators. The authors have identified the relevant documents and analyzed the racist, ideological, political and religious implications of the planning of a specific regional extermination program within the context of the Holocaust. |
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NOC 978-1-929631-85-8 • Trade Paper
$ 19.00 "A must read for fans of espionage!" The Daily Beast "The real thing, gets better every time. I can't put it down!" Google Review "Five Stars!" Review Scout “Intelligence ends with the first shot fired. Real Intelligence much more resembles a fascinating chess game, much complicated by the fact that the figures and their positions are not known to the players…”—Victor Sheymov former KGB officer who defected to the United States The new thriller by Nicholas Anderson sheds light on top secret operations that took place in the 1980s and ‘90s. The title NOC stands for “Non-Official Cover” that accurately describes the kind of “black” operations the author was involved in. Unable to secure permission to publish as non-fiction, and treading on the very thin ice of the Official Secrets Act, Anderson decided to fictionalize what really happened to him in various missions behind the old Iron Curtain, the Middle East, and Africa, but also in the Bronx, NY, chasing IRA gunmen ready to kill. Action packed at every page! |
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OPERATION NEPTUNE ISBN 978-1-929631-72.8 • Paperback
$ 15.00 In 1941 as America was still neutral and Nazi Germany dominated the European continent New York harbor had never been more vulnerable to attack from the sea. Months before Pearl Harbor a daring operation, long planned by Mussolini’s frogmen, with help from the pro-Axis Mafia managed to set up a daring operation. A young FBI agent unravels the plot that will lead him to J. Edgar Hoover and FDR. |
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PARIS WEEKEND ISBN 978-1-929631-70-4 • Paperback
$ 15.00 KGB operative Paco Araya is a mole who runs a travel agency in Manhattan where he’s been living for many years. Suddenly, on a secret mission in Paris, he discovers by accident that the man he’s wanted to kill for many years also happens to be within reach. Why does Paco want to kill this man, a known international terrorist very much reminiscent of the infamous Carlos the Jackal? Espionage and personal vengeance provide a deadly mix in this masterful Russian version of John LeCarré. |
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Pax Romana 9781929631971 • Trade Paper
$ 15.00 Translated by Catherine E. Dop-Miller
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ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS 978-1-929631-49-0 • paper 2008
$ 28.00 New Edition. Foreign shipping add $17.00. |
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SALAZAR 9781929631902 • Trade Paper
$ 28.00 The definitive political biography of a key Portuguese political leader who left his mark on European and world history: Salazar ruled Portugal while playing an important role in world affairs and yet he remains a largely unknown figure to the rest of the world. This book is now the main reference point that fills that gap.
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