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“david h sharp”

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  • The CIA's Greatest Covert Operation

    Inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-Armed Soviet Sub

    by David H. Sharp ...
    March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb-its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its siren call—even at the risk of igniting World War III.Project ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • The Billion Dollar Spy

    A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

    by David E. Hoffman ...
    From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold WarWhile driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dark Sun

    The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 From the First Atom Spy to 7/7 1945-2009

    by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas ...
    PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service.The authors look in detail at MI5s role in the post-Cold War world; in particular, they consider its changing role as it took on the main responsibility in countering terrorist threats to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The First War of Physics

    by Jim Baggott ...
    An epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding: the monumental race to build the first atomic weapons.Rich in personality, action, confrontation, and deception, The First War of Physics is the first fully realized popular account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. The book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 from Agent Zig Zag to the D-Day Deception 1939-45

    by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas ...
    PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service in its battle against German espionage. During the Second World War, the Security Service, through brilliant officers such as Guy Liddell, Dick White and the fearsome spy-breaker, Tin-eye ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Enhanced Interrogation

    Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying To Destroy America

    by Bill Harlow, James E. Mitchell Ph.D. ...
    In the dark days immediately after 9/11, the CIA turned to Dr. James Mitchell to help craft an interrogation program designed to elicit intelligence from just-captured top al-Qa'ida leaders and terror suspects.A civilian contractor who had spent years training U.S. military members to resist interrogation should they be captured, Mitchell, aware of the urgent need to prevent impending catastrophic ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Burn Before Reading

    Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence

    by Turner Stansfield ...
    In this "thoughtful, entertaining, and often insightful" book, a former CIA director explores the delicate give-and-take between the Oval Office and Langley.With the disastrous intelligence failures of the last few years still fresh in Americans minds--and to all appearances still continuing--there has never been a more urgent need for a book like this.In Burn Before Reading, Admiral Stansfield ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Spying on Democracy

    Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

    by Heidi Boghosian ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly clear, the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on every phone call Americans have ... Read more

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  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 From M to Miss X 1909-39

    by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas ...
    PO Box 500, London W2 the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous secret services hid: MI5. Drawing on previously secret sources, this book lifts the lid on Britains Security Service in its battle against German and Soviet espionage. It tells the sensational stories of the officers and agents and the enemies they confronted, from MI5s creation in 1909 under the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Nuclear Jihadist

    The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And How We Could Have Stopped Him

    by Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins ...
    Major investigative nonfiction on one of the most important stories of our time -- the spread of nuclear weapons -- written by two award-winning journalists who for years have followed the trail of the world's most notorious arms dealer.The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Spying on the Bomb

    American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea

    by Jeffrey T. Richelson ...
    Spying on the Bomb is an "engrossing" (Wall Street Journal) global history of the American-led effort to spy on every nation with nuclear ambitions.A global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War II origins to twenty-first century threats from rogue states. For more than sixty years, the United States has monitored friends and foes who seek to develop the ultimate weapon. Since 1952 ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD