Download or read book Dynamite Spies and Codes written by Thomas J. Tunney and published by Hva Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic true crime thriller from the Chief of New York City's first Bomb Squad. Before America entered the First World War, we were under attack by a new type of foe--international terrorists. Bombs were planted and ships were sunk. To protect America from this new threat the first Bomb Squad was created, headed by Thomas J. Tunney, a young captain of the NYPD. Based in New York City, his team tracked down dozens of spies, from upstate New York to Hoboken to Long Island, as well as India, Japan and beyond. In Dynamite, Spies and Codes, Tunney tells the riveting story of how he and his men pursued and apprehended these enemies of the state. His story is brimming with details about going undercover, breaking codes and hunting down anarchists. Tunney and his team were responsible for protecting America from some of the biggest threats to our country, from stopping an attempted bombing of St. Patrick's Cathedral, to uncovering the members of the infamous crime gang The Black Hand, to the capture of the man who planted bombs on dozens of American passenger ships--including the Lusitania. Dynamite, Spies and Codes is a first-hand look at early detective work by the man who has been called, "The nation's first head of Homeland Security" by New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum. Features rare photos of codebooks, homemade bombs, undercover police and criminals in disguise. This book was originally published under the title Throttled! The Detection of the German and Anarchist Bomb Plotters.

Download or read book The Woman Who Smashed Codes written by Jason Fagone and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller NPR Best Book of the Year “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.” —The New York Times Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II. In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the "Adam and Eve" of the NSA, Elizebeth’s story, incredibly, has never been told. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, who played an integral role in our nation’s history for forty years. After World War I, Smith used her talents to catch gangsters and smugglers during Prohibition, then accepted a covert mission to discover and expose Nazi spy rings that were spreading like wildfire across South America, advancing ever closer to the United States. As World War II raged, Elizebeth fought a highly classified battle of wits against Hitler’s Reich, cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine used by German spies. Meanwhile, inside an Army vault in Washington, William worked furiously to break Purple, the Japanese version of Enigma—and eventually succeeded, at a terrible cost to his personal life. Fagone unveils America’s code-breaking history through the prism of Smith’s life, bringing into focus the unforgettable events and colorful personalities that would help shape modern intelligence. Blending the lively pace and compelling detail that are the hallmarks of Erik Larson’s bestsellers with the atmosphere and intensity of The Imitation Game, The Woman Who Smashed Codes is page-turning popular history at its finest.

Download or read book Secret Codes 101 written by International Spy Museum and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop cheaters, villains, and spies from outwitting you at every turn with this must-have secret code kit! Future spies will receive code creating and cracking devices including a Scytale, a Caesar Cipher, a St. Cyr Cipher, and the famous Engima machine. The 32-page booklet comes with instructions and historical information on each device, and gives the reader real-life spy missions to perform. All written and approved by the experts at the International Spy Museum-the only museum of its kind, solely dedicated to espionage-little spies get a first-hand education from the professionals!

Download or read book Code Name Madeleine A Sufi Spy in Nazi Occupied Paris written by Arthur J. Magida and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of 2020 A Padma Lakshmi Favorite Read of 2021 The captivating story of the valiant Noor Inayat Khan, daughter of an Indian Sufi mystic and unlikely World War II heroine. Raised in a lush suburb of 1920s Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was an introspective musician and writer, dedicated to her family and to her father’s spiritual values of harmony, beauty, and tolerance. She did not seem destined for wartime heroism. Yet, faced with the evils of Nazi violence and the German occupation of France, Noor joined the British Special Operations Executive and trained in espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance. She returned to Paris under an assumed identity immediately before the Germans mopped up the Allies’ largest communications network in France. For crucial months of the war, Noor was the only wireless operator there sending critical information to London, significantly aiding the success of the Allied landing on D-Day. Code-named Madeleine, she became a high-value target for the Gestapo. When she was eventually captured, Noor attempted two daring escapes before she was sent to Dachau and killed just months before the end of the war. Carefully distilled from dozens of interviews, newly discovered manuscripts, official documents, and personal letters, Code Name Madeleine is both a compelling, deeply researched history and a thrilling tribute to Noor Inayat Khan, whose courage and faith guided her through the most brutal regime in history.

Download or read book The Dynamite Fiend written by Ann Larabee and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-06-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dynamite Fiend brings to light the stunning story behind one of the most devious criminals of the nineteenth century, Alexander "Sandy" Keith. Beginning his dark career as a Confederate secret agent, Keith helped orchestrate some of the most infamous terrorist plots of the Civil War. In peacetime, dogged by creditors and victims of his frauds, Keith kept on the move, leaving more scams, schemes, and cheated women in his wake. As his situation became more desperate, his obsession with explosives and violence became more intense, leading to a horrifying plot that he put together while posing as a prosperous American businessman living in Germany. In 1875, one of Keith's bombs exploded on a dock, killing eighty people and injuring fifty more. The world heralded the deed as the "Crime of the Century" and Keith became the "Dynamite Fiend" and a true mass murderer. In The Dynamite Fiend, author Ann Larabee unfolds this engrossing tale of hidden identity, technological obsession, and an unparalleled lust for power and profit.

Download or read book Danger Dynamite written by Anne Capeci and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danger: Dynamite! is the first book in a mystery series based on a page from American history, featuring a trio of mischievous and determined young crime solvers. Everyone in the isolated town of Scenic knows that railway workers are using dynamite to blast an eight-mile train tunnel through the Cascade Mountains. A case of dynamite is found near the schoolhouse, even though explosives aren't allowed inside the camp town where the workers and their families live. Before the source can be found, the crate disappears! Ten-year-old Billy and his best friend Finn want to find out who stole the dynamite and what they plan to do with it. The boys' search leads them back to a thirty-year-old gold robbery—and face to face with a dangerous outlaw who will stop at nothing to retrieve his treasure. This fast-paced historical series offers young readers a satisfying mystery, well-drawn characters, and an authentic portrait of the rough and tumble life of a western camp town in the 1920s.

Download or read book Codename Action written by Chris Roberson and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the height of the Cold War, unknown forces scheme to heat up a global conflict. As key officials on both sides of the Iron Curtain are replaced with doppelgangers, the infiltration threatens to disrupt the precarious state of world affairs. The security of the Free World depends on a young secret agent, one assigned to shape the world's masked heroes into a force with singular purpose and unyielding resolve! Witness Operative 1001's transformation into the international secret agent and master of disguise, Captain Action... and his alliance with Green Hornet, Kato, Operator 5, Black Venus, American Crusader, Death Defying 'Devil, Fighting Yank, and The Spider!

Download or read book Advocating Weapons War and Terrorism written by Ian E. J. Hill and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technē’s Paradox—a frequent theme in science fiction—is the commonplace belief that technology has both the potential to annihilate humanity and to preserve it. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism looks at how this paradox applies to some of the most dangerous of technologies: population bombs, dynamite bombs, chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, and improvised explosive devices. Hill’s study analyzes the rhetoric used to promote such weapons in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining Thomas R. Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population, the courtroom address of accused Haymarket bomber August Spies, the army textbook Chemical Warfare by Major General Amos A. Fries and Clarence J. West, the life and letters of Manhattan Project physicist Leo Szilard, and the writings of Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski, Hill shows how contemporary societies are equipped with abundant rhetorical means to describe and debate the extreme capacities of weapons to both destroy and protect. The book takes a middle-way approach between language and materialism that combines traditional rhetorical criticism of texts with analyses of the persuasive force of weapons themselves, as objects, irrespective of human intervention. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism is the first study of its kind, revealing how the combination of weapons and rhetoric facilitated the magnitude of killing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and illuminating how humanity understands and acts upon its propensity for violence. This book will be invaluable for scholars of rhetoric, scholars of science and technology, and the study of warfare.

Download or read book The German Spy in America written by John Price Jones and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Secret Agent Ultimate Spy Collection 77 Books in One Volume written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 13256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents (George Barton) My Adventures as a Spy (Robert Baden-Powell) Novels: Robert W. Chambers In Secret The Dark Star The Slayer of Souls The Flaming Jewel John Buchan: The 39 Steps Greenmantle Mr Standfast The Three Hostages The Island of Sheep The Courts of the Morning The Green Wildebeest Huntingtower Castle Gay The House of the Four Winds The Power-House John Macnab The Dancing Floor The Gap in the Curtain Sick Heart River Sing a Song of Sixpence E. Phillips Oppenheim: The Spy Paramount The Great Impersonation Last Train Out The Double Traitor The Spymaster Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat The Vanished Messenger The Pawns Court The Box With Broken Seals The Great Prince Shan The Devil's Paw The Zeppelin's Passenger The Kingdom of the Blind The Illustrious Prince The Lost Ambassador Mysterious Mr. Sabin The Betrayal The Colossus of Arcadia Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent John R. Coryell: The Great Spy System William Le Queux: The Great War in England in 1897 The Invasion of 1910 Whoso Findeth a Wife Of Royal Blood Her Majesty's Minister The Under-Secretary The Czar's Spy Spies of the Kaiser The Price of Power Her Royal Highness At the Sign of the Sword Number 70, Berlin The Way to Win The Zeppelin Destroyer Sant of the Secret Service Fred M. White: The Romance of the Secret Service Fund By Woman's Wit The Mazaroff Rifle In the Express The Almedi Concession The Other Side of the Chess-Board Three of Them James Fenimore Cooper: The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground Arthur Conan Doyle: His Last Bow Talbot Mundy: Jimgrim and Allah's Peace The Iblis at Ludd The Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil The Lion of Petra The Woman Ayisha Affair in Araby A Secret Society Moses and Mrs. Aintree The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb...

Download or read book The Open Court written by Paul Carus and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Open Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rosie Raja Churchill s Spy written by Sufiya Ahmed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling and empowering WWII adventure about the French resistance and their British allies, with a determined, Muslim heroine. Perfect for fans of Michael Morpurgo and Emma Carroll, and those looking for diverse historical fiction. July, 1941. Rosina Raja is half-Indian and half-English. She has always lived in India, so when her mother passes away and she moves to England (where it rains all the time) she is miserable and doesn't have any friends. Life changes dramatically for Rosie when she discovers that her army captain father is actually a spy for the British government. She can't bear to be left behind so she stows away in his plane. Finding herself in occupied France, Rosie is soon drawn into the struggle against the Nazis. With new allies and new enemies at every turn, she must help her father complete his mission, and more importantly... make sure they both get home alive.

Download or read book Burn Bomb Destroy written by Michael Digby and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating tale of international intrigue, geopolitics, divided loyalties, and criminal investigations during wartime.” —New York Journal of Books Many believe that World War I was only fought “over there,” as the popular 1917 song goes, in the trenches and muddy battlefields of Northern France and Belgium—they are wrong. There was a secret war fought in America; on remote railway bridges and waterways linking the United States and Canada; aboard burning and exploding ships in the Atlantic Ocean; in the smoldering ruins of America’s bombed and burned-out factories, munitions plants, and railway centers; and waged in carefully disguised clandestine workshops where improvised explosive devices and deadly toxins were designed and manufactured. It was irregular warfare on a scale that caught the United States woefully unprepared. This is the true story of German secret agents engaged in a campaign of subversion and terror on the American homeland before and during World War I. “Using historical records and other sources ranging from pre-World War I through the twenty-first century, Digby’s book is a compelling narrative about people involved in German-inspired events to keep America out of World War I.” —Over the Front “An excellent overview of the tangled web of German espionage in the US.” —Roads to the Great War

Download or read book Spy written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart. Funny. Fearless."It's pretty safe to say that Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s. It might have remade New York's cultural landscape; it definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all. There's no magazine I know of that's so continually referenced, held up as a benchmark, and whose demise is so lamented" --Dave Eggers. "It's a piece of garbage" --Donald Trump.

Download or read book Go Spy the Land written by George Alexander Hill and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before espionage entered the era of modern technology, there was the age of George Alexander Hill: a time of swashbuckling secret agents, swordsticks and secret assignations with deadly female spies. The daring escapades of some of the first members of Britain's secret service are revealed in this account of perilous adventure and audacious missions in Imperial and revolutionary Russia. First published in 1932, Hill's rip-roaring narrative recounts tales of his fellow operatives Arthur Ransome - author of Swallows and Amazons and one of the most effective British spies in Russia - and Sidney Reilly - so-called 'Ace of Spies' and architect of a thwarted plot to assassinate the Bolshevik leadership. Unavailable for decades, this lost classic offers fascinating portraits of a world unfathomable to those growing up against a backdrop of WikiLeaks and cyber espionage, and of true-life characters whose exploits were so extraordinary that they have entered the realm of legend.

Download or read book Anarchy and Anarchists written by Michael J. Schaack and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this long and detailed account of the investigations into the Haymarket case was a member of the police force and a colleague of Inspector Bonfield, the police officer who led the police into the crowd at Haymarket on May 4, 1886. The book, which was widely distributed at the time, included many documents from the case, descriptions of testimony at trial, and many drawings of people and incidents. The author, Michael Schaack, and Inspector Bonfield were subsequently dismissed from the Chicago Police after an investigation for corruption. Subsequent investigations of the trial uncovered perjured testimony by police witnesses and others, and jury rigging by the prosecution.