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| The Hornet's Sting: The Amazing Untold Story of World War II Spy Thomas Sneum
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Mark Ryan.
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| Publisher: Skyhorse. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781616081706. Daedalus Item Code: 14141 |
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| Assassination by crossbow, refueling homemade planes in mid-air, mother and daughter seduction—Allied spy Tommy Sneum did all of these during World War II, and nearly died on a frozen sea returning ... (Read More)
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| Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII
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Nicholas Rankin.
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| Publisher: Faber & Faber. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780571250622. Daedalus Item Code: 32321 |
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| The man who would invent James Bond, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was the personal assistant to John Godfrey, Britain's Director of Naval Intelligence early in World War II (and the dynamic ... (Read More)
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| Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory
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Edward G. Lengel.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061662584. Daedalus Item Code: 22314 |
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| "As the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington, Edward G. Lengel [the author of This Glorious Struggle] is the perfect author to rescue Washington from the reams of outrageous ... (Read More)
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| John Adams: A Life
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John Ferling.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780195398663. Daedalus Item Code: 30749 |
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| The author of A Leap in the Dark and Adams vs. Jefferson as well as the biographer of George Washington, John Ferling here offers a compelling portrait of the man who succeeded George ... (Read More)
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| King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America
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J. North Conway.
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| Publisher: Lyons Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781599215389. Daedalus Item Code: 22925 |
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| On October 27, 1878, thieves stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities (worth $50 million today) from the Manhattan Savings Institution. The greatest bank robbery in American history, it was ... (Read More)
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| The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
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Mark Logue & Peter Conradi.
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| Publisher: Quercus. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780857381118. Daedalus Item Code: 22188 |
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| Lionel Logue was a self-taught and virtually unknown speech therapist. Yet it was this outgoing, amiable man who almost singlehandedly turned the nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of ... (Read More)
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| Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
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The Countess of Carnarvon.
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| Publisher: Broadway. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780770435622. Daedalus Item Code: 29061 |
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| Written by the current Lady Carnarvon, this book tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for the Golden Globe– and Emmy Award–winning television series ... (Read More)
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| The Latter Days at Colditz
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P.R. Reid.
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| Publisher: Cassell. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781407214665. Daedalus Item Code: 01624 |
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| In his classic escape account The Colditz Story, Pat Reid told the story of the escape academy that sprang up inside the most impregnable German POW camp of World War II, ending appropriately ... (Read More)
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| A Leader Born: The Life of Admiral John Sidney McCain, Pacific Carrier Commander
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Alton Keith Gilbert. John McCain, foreword.
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| Publisher: Casemate. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781932033502. Daedalus Item Code: 23807 |
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| John S. "Slew" McCain was an old-school sailor; wiry, profane, a cusser and a gambler, he reminded more than one observer of Popeye. He was also a pioneer in the hard-hitting naval tactics that ... (Read More)
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