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1) Secret honor
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A World War II spy novel set in Argentina, featuring Cletus Frade, an OSS agent and heir to an oil fortune in Texas. Argentina is crawling with Nazis--their submarines refuel there--and some Nazis are prepared to spy for America in return for favors.
Author
Series
Kate Rees novels volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the next:...
Author
Series
Men at war volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2006.
Language
English
Description
A new OSS adventure finds the agents of Wild Bill Donovan fighting the Battle of the Atlantic on two fronts, a situation that is compromised by a possible saboteur.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is...
6) Jackdaws
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
D-Day is approaching. They don't know where or when, but the Germans know it'll be soon, and for Felicity "Flick" Clariet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sabotage, Flick has survived to become one of Britain's most effective operatives in Northern France. She knows that the Germans' ability to thwart the Allied attack depends upon their lines of communications,...
Author
Series
Men at war volume 6
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2007.
Language
English
Description
Canidy, Fulmar, and their colleagues in the Office of Strategic Services work to convince Axis forces that the Allies are not planning an invasion of Sicily, an effort that is undermined by a traitor. David Niven, Peter Ustinov, and James Bond creator Ian Fleming are characters.
Author
Series
Men at war volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Major Richard Caniday of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II spy agency, embarks on a mission to smuggle a scientist out of Germany. The scientist is an expert on jet aircraft, which both sides are racing to build.
10) A secret courage
Author
Series
London chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
American Emma Hanson came to England to study at Oxford but joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force at the height of World War II. She is stationed at beautiful and historic Danesfield House west of London as part of the highly secretive Photographic Reconnaissance Unit. Englishman Will Fleming is a handsome young artist who has been commissioned by the British government to record the changing landscape in paintings. His path intersects with Emma's...
11) The spymasters
Author
Series
Men at war volume 7
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is summer 1943. Two of the Allies' most important plans are at grave risk--Operation Overlord's invasion of France and the Manhattan Project's race to build the atomic bomb. A furious President Roosevelt turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan--and Donovan turns to Dick Canidy and his teams behind enemy lines. They've certainly got their work cut out for them. In the weeks to come, they must fight the Axis in many ways, to try to find and sabotage...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before she mastered the art of French cooking in midlife, Julia Child found herself working in the secrets trade in Asia during World War II, a journey that will delight both historical fiction fans and lovers of America's most beloved chef, revealing how the war made her into the icon we know now. Single, 6 foot 2, and thirty years old, Julia McWilliams took a job working for America's first espionage agency, years before cooking or Paris entered...
13) Enigma
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
A thriller on the breaking of a secret German radio code during World War II. The protagonists are two British cryptographers, a man and a woman, and their work becomes a race to crack the code in time to save a convoy of U.S. ships from being sunk by U-boats. By the author of The Fatherland.
Author
Series
Orphan monster spy series volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Goldstein--Jewish orphan turned secret weapon in the resistance against the Nazis--is hunting down a rogue German doctor whose germ warfare experiment could kill thousands with a single syringe. But her journey through Central Africa reveals the ravages of colonialism and exposes darker truths about her own allies than Sarah could've ever imagined."--
Germany, 1940. Still hiding in plain sight as "Ursula Haller, " Sarah Goldstein gathers information...
Author
Series
Men at war volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2000], ©1987.
Language
English
Description
"The Philippines, 1943: As the ragged remnants of the American forces stand against the might of the Imperial Japanese Army, a determined cadre of OSS agents becomes their only contact with the outside world-and their only hope for survival."--Publisher's website.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 16
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
September 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he's shocked to come face to face with the killer. Dismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime, Freddie goes in search of a woman he once met when delivering...
17) The darkest hour
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1943 sixteen-year-old Lucie Blaise is the newest recruit of Covert Ops, a secret espionage and sabotage organization of girls, and her mission in German occupied France is to track down information about a weapon that could wipe out all of Western Europe--and then dismantle it before it can be used.
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2009.
Language
English
Description
August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger's knowledge and connections to kill Adolf Hitler.
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