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Great Spies of the 20th Century Kindle Edition

by Patrick Pesnot (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Heroes to some, traitors to others, spies and intelligence officers continue to fascinate and enthral us with their abilities to operate secretly in the shadows. With these mini-biographies of twenty agents of various nationalities (including members of the DGSE, KGB, CIA, MI6 and Mossad), Patrick Pesnot and 'Mr X' bring the reader as close as possible into the world of espionage, though a panorama of intelligence history.Among the best known of these agents, the reader will find Aldrich Ames, an American accused of spying for the KGB; Eli Cohen, the Israeli spy best known for his espionage work in Syria and Klaus Fuchs, the German-born British agent who helped the USSR to manufacture its atomic bomb in 1949.

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"A terrific study of some of the most iconic and famous spies of the twentieth century. Utterly enthralling and fascinating stuff!"
Books Monthly

About the Author

Confidant of 'Mr X' and the host of Rendez-vous avec X, Patrick Pesnot is a journalist and novelist. His non-fiction titles include works on Islamic terrorism and Russian spies. He is also the author of an historical novel, The Regent.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N9FWHK6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword Military (October 31, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 31, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2521 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 345 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,061,220 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,450 in Intelligence & Espionage (Kindle Store)
- #3,646 in Political Intelligence
- #4,251 in 20th Century World History

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Interesting!

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2022

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This is full of great information and very compelling. It's not dry at all. So why 3 stars instead of 5? This is a $20.00 book with so many editing errors it couldn't be overlooked. A lot of information repeated from paragraph to paragraph, spelling errors galore and wrong words used.

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A must read! Hard to put down once you start.

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2017

Wow! This book is CRAZY good! There’s information that was collected to tell “ALL” about doubles lives of spies, the names , the countries that they conspired with. Patrick Pesnot starts off introducing the main spies of the ‘Cambridge Five’, traitors provided prodigious patronage to the Soviets. They betrayed the Queen of England, the Americans, and Germany, just to name a few countries.

Just like the movies they had cool codenames, for instance: codename: ‘Otto’, The ‘Little Father’, the ‘Undertaker’, ‘Hawk’, just to give you a idea of who you will meet inside, but you have to read the book to discover who they are and how close they were aiding the president of the United States. There’s names that you will recognize, Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher, Nixon, what important role did he have to play? This is a story of espionage, spies turning each other over, and also being disloyal to both sides. You’ll see how the Soviets took care of traitors of espionage, there were spies that crossed over because of their expensive living styles, or also being blackmailed because of their homosexuality. When an agent wanted out, it's not so easy to quit because you know too much, the lifestyle of a double agent of the Soviets. What do you do, you know you have to give something up for your life, it's sad what they gave up.

If you enjoy a book that takes little effort to read, then this isn't the book for you. There are ‘endnotes’, you must pay close attention to the names and places and dates for there might be a small number by it and for the definition you would have to refer to the ‘endnotes’.

With what's going on with the world today in the news, is our own government spying on us? How different spying has become since World War ll read this book and see how they did it then and how long it took them to get caught.

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