Download or read book The Catcher Was a Spy written by Nicholas Dawidoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd “A delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA. For Berg was much more than a third-string catcher who played on several major league teams between 1923 and 1939. Educated at Princeton and the Sorbonne, he as reputed to speak a dozen languages (although it was also said he couldn't hit in any of them) and went on to become an OSS spy in Europe during World War II. As Nicholas Dawidoff follows Berg from his claustrophobic childhood through his glamorous (though equivocal) careers in sports and espionage and into the long, nomadic years during which he lived on the hospitality of such scattered acquaintances as Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein, he succeeds not only in establishing where Berg went, but who he was beneath his layers of carefully constructed cover. As engrossing as a novel by John le Carré, The Catcher Was a Spy is a triumphant work of historical and psychological detection.
Download or read book Moe Berg Spy Catcher written by Jeri Cipriano and published by Red Chair Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people call him the smartest baseball player of all time. Moe Berg could speak twelve languages—and make up signs on the baseball diamond. How did this major league catcher go on to become an American spy in World War II?
Download or read book Spycatcher sound Recording the Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer written by Peter Wright and published by CNIB. This book was released on 1988 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spy Who Played Baseball written by Carrie Jones and published by Kar-Ben Publishing (R). This book was released on 2018 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Biography of Major League Baseball catcher and coach who was a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Amazing Life of Moe Berg written by Tricia Andryszewski and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of a man who managed two successful careers, as a baseball player and as a secret agent during World War II.
Download or read book Traitors Among Us written by Stuart A. Herrington and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's chief spy catcher between 1983 and 1994 reveals his own Cold War memoir of a career spent chasing down spooks, moles, and traitors in the U.S., most notably Clyde Conrad, the most damaging spy in American history.
Download or read book Harriet the Spy written by Louise Fitzhugh and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be an Apple TV+ animated series starring Golden Globe nominee Beanie Feldstein and Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch, it's no secret that Harriet the Spy is a timeless classic that kids will love! Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she’s written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together? "What the novel showed me as a child is that words have the power to hurt, but they can also heal, and that it’s much better in the long run to use this power for good than for evil."—New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot
Download or read book Hidden Among Us written by Garrett Hutson and published by Warfleigh Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the threat of war looms in Europe, the shadow game of espionage has come to America, and Martin Schuller knows it. While most Americans go about their daily lives oblivious to any threat from abroad, Martin’s work at the State Department’s counter-intelligence office keeps them safe, sometimes going undercover to catch a Nazi spy hidden among them. But then an anticipated bust at the rally of the German American Bund in February 1939 results in Martin’s mistaken arrest by the FBI, frustrating his efforts to identify the head of a Nazi cell in the United States, code-named Der Skilaufer. Martin is set on a collision course with FBI Special Agent Reginald Sloan, who seems to interfere with Martin’s investigation at every turn. Meanwhile, Martin’s marriage is falling apart. Can he keep the career he loves without losing his family, or being pushed aside by the FBI? As war looms on the horizon, can Martin identify Der Skilaufer before he compromises a secret American military project? Book One in the Martin Schuller Spy Catcher series, Hidden Among Us shapes Martin’s character and alters the course of his life. Hidden Among Us is part mystery, part spy thriller, which will appeal to fans of David Downing’s Station series, or Luke McCallin’s Gregor Reinhardt series.
Download or read book The Bastard Brigade written by Sam Kean and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb. Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the middle of building an atomic bomb, the leaders of the Manhattan Project were alarmed to learn that Nazi Germany was far outpacing the Allies in nuclear weapons research. Hitler, with just a few pounds of uranium, would have the capability to reverse the entire D-Day operation and conquer Europe. So they assembled a rough and motley crew of geniuses -- dubbed the Alsos Mission -- and sent them careening into Axis territory to spy on, sabotage, and even assassinate members of Nazi Germany's feared Uranium Club. The details of the mission rival the finest spy thriller, but what makes this story sing is the incredible cast of characters -- both heroes and rogues alike -- including: Moe Bergm, the major league catcher who abandoned the game for a career as a multilingual international spy; the strangest fellow to ever play professional baseball. Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist credited as the discoverer of quantum mechanics; a key contributor to the Nazi's atomic bomb project and the primary target of the Alsos mission. Colonel Boris Pash, a high school science teacher and veteran of the Russian Revolution who fled the Soviet Union with a deep disdain for Communists and who later led the Alsos mission. Joe Kennedy Jr., the charismatic, thrill-seeking older brother of JFK whose need for adventure led him to volunteer for the most dangerous missions the Navy had to offer. Samuel Goudsmit, a washed-up physics prodigy who spent his life hunting Nazi scientists -- and his parents, who had been swept into a concentration camp -- across the globe. Irène and Frederic Joliot-Curie, a physics Nobel-Prize winning power couple who used their unassuming status as scientists to become active members of the resistance. Thrust into the dark world of international espionage, these scientists and soldiers played a vital and largely untold role in turning back one of the darkest tides in human history.
Download or read book The Spy catcher Gang written by DK and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help your child learn to read with this thrilling graphic tale perfect for reluctant readers Graphic Readers are gripping comic-book adventures aimed at boys and reluctant readers. Help your child learn to read as they travel back in time to a world of spies and unexploded bombs among the rubble of London during the Blitz. Watch as they read about 10-year-old Harry Tucker as he leads a gang of friends on the trail of a suspected spy – their adventures take them into abandoned buildings and factories, through the streets of London, into air-raid shelters and down into the Underground tube stations.
Download or read book Baseball written by Nicholas Dawidoff and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes stories, memoirs, poems, news reports, and insider accounts about all aspects of baseball from its pastoral nineteenth-century beginnings to now.
Download or read book Moe Berg written by Louis Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shadow Catcher written by James R. Hannibal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade after a failed special ops mission that left a stealth bomber at the bottom of the Persian Gulf, Air Force major Nick Baron leads the Triple Seven Chase team to find and dispose of the bomber before its technology can be stolen by adversarial forces, a mission that is challenged by the daring rescue of a soldier from the Chinese wilderness.
Download or read book Into the Mirror written by Lawrence Schiller and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the story of Robert P. Hanssen, the FBI Special Agent who singlehandedly created the greatest breach of security in the history of the United States.
Download or read book The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme--With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices--but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.
Download or read book Spy Hunter written by Robert W. Hunter and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter, a foreign counterintelligence agent for the FBI, was lead investigator in the case against master spy John Walker, who led what top officials called the most damaging espionage ring in US history. He presents an insider's account of the detection, pursuit, and capture of the US Navy communications expert and his partners in espionage. This work is the first to discuss interviews with Walker's relatives, with judges and prosecutors involved in the case, and with the KGB general who supervised Walker. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Fly Swatter written by Nicholas Dawidoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reconstruction of Nicholas Dawidoff's grandfather, Alexander Gerschenkron-the Harvard professor who knew the most.
