{"title":"Ben Macintyre PDF E-Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"prisoners-of-the-castle","title":"Prisoners of the Castle","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBESTSELLER - The \"entertaining yet objective and often-moving account\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e) of one of history's most notorious prisons--and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried relentlessly to escape their captors, from the author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Spy and the Traitor\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Macintyre so seamlessly fuses so many different accounts that their compilation creates something more profound than a simple escape yarn.\"―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In Macintyre's telling, Colditz's most famous names--like the indomitable Pat Reid--share glory with lesser known but equally remarkable characters like Indian doctor Birendranath Mazumdar whose ill treatment, hunger strike, and eventual escape read like fiction; Florimond Duke, America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; and Christopher Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture covert escape aids for POWs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrisoners of the Castle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e traces the war's arc from within Colditz's stone walls, where the stakes rose as Hitler's war machine faltered and the men feared that liberation would not come soon enough to spare them a grisly fate at the hands of the Nazis. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOperation Mincemeat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45841228890386,"sku":"","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/PrisonersoftheCastle.jpg?v=1690263430"},{"product_id":"a-spy-among-friends","title":"A Spy Among Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Kim Philby, Nicholas Elliot and James Jesus Angleton were rising stars in the intelligence world, and firm friends. The three spies belonged to the same clubs, drank in the same bars, wore the same well-tailored suits and spoke in similar cut-glass accnts. Philby and Eliott were in the 'golden lads' of MI6, Britain's secret intelligence service; Angleton was the brilliant young American chief of counter-intelligence at the CIA. For years, they shared every secret. But Philby had one secret he did not disclose : he was, all along, covertly working for Moscow, divulding everything to his Soviet spymasters, with bloody consequences. Elliott and Angleton thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had known him not at all. This is a story of trust and treachery, class and consciences; of an ideological battle between friends, exquisitely polite and perfectly ruthless, waged in the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and Washinton; of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51569265246482,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/ASpyAmongFriends.jpg?v=1755705128"},{"product_id":"the-spy-and-the-traitor","title":"The Spy and the Traitor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThorough and highly entertaining. It would be nigh on impossible to praise it too highly * Daily Express on 'SAS' * Thrilling. Ben Macintyre is the ideal narrator * Spectator on 'SAS' * Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II -- Antony Beevor on 'SAS' Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining and often very moving -- John le Carre on 'Agent Zigzag' [A] captivating espionage tale. In a feat of real authorial dexterity, Macintyre accurately portrays the long-game banality of spycraft-the lead time and persistence in planning-with such clarity and propulsive verve that the book often feels like a thriller. Macintyre has produced a timely and insightful page-turner. * Publishers Weekly * The best true spy story I have ever read -- John le Carre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51569266721042,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/TheSpyandtheTraitor.jpg?v=1755705346"},{"product_id":"agent-sonya","title":"Agent Sonya","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER * The \"master storyteller\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) behind the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Spy and the Traitor\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the true story behind one of the Cold War's most intrepid spies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn't know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named \"Sonya.\" Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI--and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century--between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy--and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith unparalleled access to Sonya's diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51569291493650,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/AgentSonya.jpg?v=1755705572"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.goode-books.com\/collections\/ben-macintyre-pdf-e-books.oembed","provider":"Good E-Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}