Britains Forgotten Traitor

Author : Ed Perkins
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398100315
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Forgotten Traitor written by Ed Perkins and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the Englishman allegedly freed from a French prison after meeting John Amery, the treacherous son of a Cabinet minister, and sent back to Britain to spy - only to be caught, prosecuted and hanged for being a traitor to his country. But this 'spy' always claimed to have simply lied in order to come home. Was he telling the truth?

Author : Tim Tate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785785610
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's British Traitors written by Tim Tate and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first authoritative account of a well-kept secret: the British Fifth Column and its activities during the Second World War.

Author : Ian Hernon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750980567
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Forgotten Wars written by Ian Hernon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Britain the nineteenth century began, in military terms, with the global upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars and ended with a 'modern' conflict in which machine-guns and a scorched-earth policy were deployed against the Boers. In between there was a supposed peace, marred only by glorious, if tragic, enterprises in the Crimea, Africa and Afghanistan, against the Zulus, the Boers, the Mahdi and Indian mutineers, providing the battles whose names remain proudly emblazoned on regimental banners: Balaclava, Sevastopol, Alma, Lucknow, Kabul, Khartoum, Omdurman. These are the campaigns, it seems, that forged an Empire unparalleled in size before or since, and built the careers of such military leaders as Garnet Wolseley and Lord Kitchener. They were the source of many Boy's Own stories and novels, as well as romantic cinema epics full of dramatic cavalry charges with sabres drawn against hordes of painted savages.

Author : Jerry Roberts
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574775
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Raid on Essex written by Jerry Roberts and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the dynamic account of one of the most destructive maritime actions to take place in Connecticut history: the 1814 British attack on the privateers of Pettipaug, known today as the British Raid on Essex. During the height of the War of 1812, 136 Royal marines and sailors made their way up the Connecticut River from warships anchored in Long Island Sound. Guided by a well-paid American traitor the British navigated the Saybrook shoals and advanced up the river under cover of darkness. By the time it was over, the British had burned twenty-seven American vessels, including six newly built privateers. It was the largest single maritime loss of the war. Yet this story has been virtually left out of the history books—the forgotten battle of the forgotten war. This new account from author and historian Jerry Roberts is the definitive overview of this event and includes a wealth of new information drawn from recent research and archaeological finds. Lavish illustrations and detailed maps bring the battle to life.

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1101904208
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spy and the Traitor written by Ben Macintyre and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. For nearly a decade, as the Cold War reached its twilight, Gordievsky helped the West turn the tables on the KGB, exposing Russian spies and helping to foil countless intelligence plots, as the Soviet leadership grew increasingly paranoid at the United States's nuclear first-strike capabilities and brought the world closer to the brink of war. Desperate to keep the circle of trust close, MI6 never revealed Gordievsky's name to its counterparts in the CIA, which in turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain's obviously top-level source. Their obsession ultimately doomed Gordievsky: the CIA officer assigned to identify him was none other than Aldrich Ames, the man who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets. Unfolding the delicious three-way gamesmanship between America, Britain, and the Soviet Union, and culminating in the gripping cinematic beat-by-beat of Gordievsky's nail-biting escape from Moscow in 1985, Ben Macintyre's latest may be his best yet. Like the greatest novels of John le Carré, it brings readers deep into a world of treachery and betrayal, where the lines bleed between the personal and the professional, and one man's hatred of communism had the power to change the future of nations.

Author : Martin Wall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445697092
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Battlefields of Britain written by Martin Wall and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Kingdom was united in battle - and some of those battles, though an important part of British history, have been forgotten.

Author : Giōrgos Euthymiou Charokopos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Debt written by Giōrgos Euthymiou Charokopos and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Henry Babcock
Publisher : Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Two Lost Centuries of Britain written by William Henry Babcock and published by Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company. This book was released on 1890 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Szechi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847799884
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's lost revolution? written by Daniel Szechi and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a frontal attack on an entrenched orthodoxy. Our official, public vision of the early eighteenth century demonises Louis XIV and France and marginalises the Scots Jacobites. Louis is seen as an incorrigibly imperialistic monster and the enemy of liberty and all that is good and progressive. The Jacobite Scots are presented as so foolishly reactionary and dumbly loyal that they were (sadly) incapable of recognising their manifest destiny as the cannon fodder of the first British empire. But what if Louis acted in defence of a nation’s liberties and (for whatever reason) sought to right a historic injustice? What if the Scots Jacobites turn out to be the most radical, revolutionary party in early eighteenth-century British politics? Using newly discovered sources from the French and Scottish archives this exciting new book challenges our fundamental assumptions regarding the emergence of the fully British state in the early eighteenth century.

Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786727047
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Patriots written by Edwin G. Burrows and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons—more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. It was in New York, not Boston or Philadelphia, where most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence. New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown's military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed—those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence—and how much we have forgotten.