This is the story of the most successful German spy of World War II, the Albanian Elyesa Bazna - an untrained opportunist. Bazna worked as a valet to the British ambassador to Turkey in Ankara. He photographed 'Top Secret' material, which he sold for vast sums to the Germans. He…
The nearest Ian Fleming ever got to being a real secret agent was when he visited the Iberian Peninsula and Tangiers several times during World War II. This was when Fleming devised the sabotage and disruption scheme Operation Golden Eye with Alan Hillgarth, the naval attaché in…
The elaborate Allied schemes to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII'featuring the real-life spy work of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Historian Mark Simmons reveals the various Allied operations designed to keep the Iberian Peninsula out of WWII. It is a tale of widespread…
From 1976 to 2000 English Heritage archaeologists undertook excavation and research on Hadrian's Wall. This book reports on these findings and includes the first publication, of the James Irwin Coates archive of drawings of Hadrian' Wall made in 1877?96.
In 'The Rebecca Code', Mark Simmons reveals the story of Operation Kondor and its comedy of errors. It's a tale of the desert, of the hotbed of intrigue that was 1940s Cairo, and of the spy who was to send his reports using a code based on Daphne du Maurier's novel 'Rebecca'.
FOREWORD by legendary business icon, Virgin's Richard Branson "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." Pablo Picasso In today's flat world, business as usual no longer cuts it. Anyone can compete on quality, price and timing. So what's …
FOREWORD by legendary business icon, Virgin's Richard Branson "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." Pablo Picasso In today's flat world, business as usual no longer cuts it. Anyone can compete on quality, price and timing. So what's …
