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Canada: Self Published, 1999. Book. Illus. by Walters, Ray. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 290 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos in text. "Whether by accident or design, governments and agencies have remained silent, so all the research has been up to us. However this true fifty year old shame must be revealed in the hope that mankind remembers and never allows it to be repeated." - from Foreword. "Our story tells what happened to 168 Allied Airmen who jumped into Northern Europe after their planes had met with an explosive and fiery end... Because our eventual betrayal to the Gestapo was accomplished so smoothly, a number of these encounters will be explained so that you can better understand our dilemma. The retelling of our encounter with our Gestapo hosts is mild, for many of us do not wish to recall the most unpleasant details that deserve to stay well hidden in the back of our minds... Now with this story told, we… Read More

Canada: Gath Ltd., 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 323 pages. Index. Black and white reproductions of photos. "Gelleny was recruited into the SOE (Special Operations Executive) in 1943 for training as an Allied Secret Agent at Camp X near Oshawa, Ontario. He served with distinction in Yugoslavia and Hungary." - dust jacket. First blank leaf neatly removed. Possibly signed by Joseph Gelleny inside back board. Clean with light wear. A nice copy. Dust jacket now preseved in archival-grade Brodart..

New York: Constitutional Educational League, Inc.. Very Good. 1950. First Edition. Unknown_Binding. "Names more than one hundred reds in the State Department... Reveals super-secret data from the 'loyalty' files which President Truman is trying to hide... Tells how Moscow's agents in and out of the State Department betrayed the United States in its war with Communism." - back cover. 63 pages. "Joseph Kamp [1900-1993] was a great-uncle of actor Jon Voight through his mother, making him the great great uncle of actress Angelina Jolie. Kamp worked with the Constitutional Educationa League, an American anti-communist organization." - Wikipedia. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A tight and tidy copy.; 8vo; 63 pages .

New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1976. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xvi, [4], 154, [2], 154, [4], 14, 47, [1], 2, 1 pages. List of black and white illustrations. Shulman spent twenty-five years researching this work and wrote it with librarians, students of cryptography, and book collectors in mind. An introduction preceeds the following six sections: works relating directly to ciphers from 1518 to 1976, chronological list of works relating indirectly to cryptography, chronological list of manuscripts, alphabetical index of authors and translators, chronological list of patents on cryptographic devices from 1874 through 1953, sample list of books on cryptography written in languages other than English. From the library of Philip Mills Arnold whose bookplate is mounted inside front board. Arnold, a student of semeiology, explored the history of communication, from efforts to relate through universal languages and alphabets, to systems… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1969. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 207 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "The story of Sidney Cotton's pre-WWII reconnaissance flights - culminating in a tense episode in late August 1939, when his Lockheed was the last civil aeroplane to leave Berlin - is as thrilling as any novel of the secret service. But it was only a chapter in the adventurous career of this man, born in Australia, who has become something of a legend in his own lifetime." - from dust jacket. Heavily-worn former library copy with usual markings. Binding intact. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy..

Canada: Undercurrent Press, 2003. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 170 pp. Bibliography of books [in English] about Bethune. Eighty-five black and white reproductions of documents. Opens with an informative fifteen page footnoted introduction by David Lethbridge. Dr. Norman Bethune [1890-1939] is revered to this day in China for his front-line medical service to the Communist Army in the late 1930s. "But from the moment he joined the Communist Party of Canada, the RCMP secret intelligence division kept extensive and detailed files on his every move. Only recently declassified, and fully reproduced for the first time in this volume, are the actual secret police files on Bethune. Never before have Bethune's own words spoken so clearly about the political convictions and personal courage that have led him to be remembered as a revolutionary militant of 'absolute selflessness.'" - back cover. Former library copy with usual… Read More

Canada: Prentice-Hall, 1994. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 254 pages. "The shocking true story of Polish secret agent Ryszard Paszkowski - his at times brutish training, his hijacking of an aircraft to the West, his flight from a German prison, his work for CSIS, and the stirring promise and crushing denial he found in Canada." - from dust jacket. Author was a long-term Edmonton MP. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Crisp and fresh. A superb copy..

USA: Westview Press. Very Good. 1985. First Edition. Paperback. 0813370485 . "Over five hundred books, articles, and Congressional and other documents on Soviet intelligence have been categorized into five sections: Selected Bibliographies and other reference works, Russian/Soviet Accounts (many available in English translation), Defector/First-Hand Accounts, Secondary Accounts, and Congressional and other government documents. - page x. Includes Author/Source Index and Title Index. xii, 203 pages. Half-title bears the rubber stamp and blind stamp of prior owner Roger E. Kanet, professor emeritus of political science, University of Illinois. Minimal markings. Light wear. A quality copy.; 8vo .

London: Evans Brothers. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 0704100266 . 220 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Great eye-catching dust jacket art. Discusses "deceptions, physical feints involving men and machines, faked papers, maps and photos designed to harass, puzzle and trick the enemy into making a false move, or no move at all." - from dust jacket. Author was an active participant in such activities during the second world war. Average wear and soiling to book.. Binding intact. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound reference copy of this fascinating work.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Propaganda Misinformation Disinformation News Media Military .

Israel: Gefen Publishing House Ltd.. Good. 1991. First Edition. Paperback. 9652290718 . "The name 'Irgun Zvai Leumi', even more than 40 years since this military framework dismantled itself and amalgamated with the Israel Defense Forces, still conjures up many images. As the years pass and its players disappear, historians, political scientists, and sociologists are better able to look back objectively at the tumultuous period of 1931-1941. David Raziel [1910-1941] is the microcosm of this study, serving as a human porthole through which to examine both the political and social tensions that were current in the Jewish community of mandatory Palestine. Though his life was short, it encompassed a most eventful period in modern Jewish history." - Preface. "David Raziel [was the] greatest of Hebrew commanders of our day." - Menachem Begin. "For a man such as you I have waited fifteen years." - Zeev Jabotinsky (to David Raziel). Author served as a… Read More

London: Secker & Warburg. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670170917 . "[Presents] the story of [Sefton Delmer's] secret 'Black Radio' operation in World War 2 - and how it has boomeranged today. In this, the second volume of his autobiography, he explains the use to which his unique knowledge of the German people was put. The task of his special section of the Political Warfare Executive was to launch broadcast propaganda which purported to come from a German station. Much of what was broadcast was the truth - gleaned often from the tapped conversations of German prisoners - much of it had a ring of truth, sometimes it even deceived our American allies, always it purported to come from patriotic Germans eager to expose the weaknesses and corruption which were impeding the noble Fuhrer's efforts. Provides fascinating examples of actual broadasts, of deceptions practised, of lies disseminated, of new techniques whereby he and the merry… Read More

London: The Francis Mott Company. Good. 1935. First English Edition. Hardcover. 273 pages. Black and white frontisplate of author. Three black and white plates in appendices. New preface to this edition discusses events which transpired in the fifteen months since the first French edition was published. "Surveys the political situation in Yugoslavia between the two World Wars, and shows how the Yugoslav state was created for the simple purpose of implementing Serbian domination over the non-Serb nations within Yugoslavia." - Croation Information Centre. Unmarked. Hinges and binding intact. Moderate wear and soiling to red cloth-covered boards. Light foxing near endpapers. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Black Hand Over Europe, Consisting of: War is Coming Again; Also a Resume of the Story of Woislav Maximus Petrovich, the Secret Protocols to the Balkan Pact of Alliance, and the Constitution of the Serbian Black Hand Henri Pozzi Black… Read More

U.S.A.: Lewis International Inc, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 204 pages. Glossary. Black and white photographic plates. "The true-life story of one man's life in the Special Boat Services (SBS)" - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Slight lean to spine. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A nice copy..

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 256 pages including index and black and white illustrations. Reveals for the first time how Maclean, then the golden boy of the Foreign Office, married an American girl, Melinda Marling, on the afternoon of the day the British Embassy left Paris during the fall of France, and how the couple escaped aboard a ship that ran out of food before it reached Britain. Includes many other similar disclosures. Describes some of the daringly simple methods of espionage used by Burgess, and tells for the first time of the embarrassing contents of the trunk Burgess left behind. Author has more than 25 years' experience as Diplomatic Correspondent for Lord Thomson's newspaper group. Book is crisp, clean and unmarked in red cloth boards. Dust jacket shows moderate edgewear with several small tears..

Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited. Good in Good dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0773724605 . Signed, inscribed, and flamboyantly illustrated in spy vs. spy motif by Victor Ostrovsky upon half-title and verso of front free endpaper. "I was elated when I was chosen and granted the privilege to join what I considered to be the elite team of the Mossad. But it was the twisted ideals and self-centered pragmatism that I encountered inside the Mossad, coupled with this so-called team's greed, lust and total lack of respect for human life, that motivated me to tell this story. It is out of love for Israel as a free and just country that I am laying my life on the line by so doing, facing up to those who took it upon themselves to turn the Zionist Dream into the present-day nightmare." - Victor Ostrovsky. "Ostrovsky was born in Canada of an Israeli mother and Canadian Jewish father but spent most of his formative years in Holon, Israel. He became at age… Read More

Canada: Lester & Orpen Dennys, Limited, 1986. Book. Illus. by Fernley, Don. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxiv, 327 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Black and white photographic plates. "Camp X was the first secret-agent training school in North America. Located on the north shore of Lake Ontario, half-way between Oshawa and Whitby, the camp trained spies and guerrilla fighters in the techniques of clandestine warfare. It was so secret that not even the Canadian War Cabinet knew of its existence. Now the camp's definitive story has been written." - dust jacket. Slight lean to spine. Ink markings to a few pages. Gift greetings and assorted handwritten notes upon preliminary pages. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound reading copy. ..

Canada: Blake Books Dist, 2001. Book. Good. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 328 pages. "What if... Great Britain had lost the Battle of Britain?" - from back cover. Initialed by Lynn-Philip Hodgson inside front cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy..

U.S.A.: Praeger, 1970. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 316 pages. Published in cooperation with The Emergency Committee for Reappraisal of U.S. Overseas Policies and Programs, and The Overseas Press Club Foundation, Edward R. Murrow Memorial Fund. In light of the communications revolution of the last fifty years, this work addresses the urgent need for the U.S. Overseas Information Agency (USIA) to "be brought into line with changed political conditions, the new techniques of communication, and the findings of social scientists." - from Preface. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Usual library markings. A sound copy..

New York: St Martin's Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0312131674 . Boldly signed, without inscription, by J. Bowyer Bell upon front free endpaper. "A witty, thought-provoking, and thoroughly enjoyable examination of all forms of trickery, ranging from poker and street-corner three-card monte to espionage and the life-and-death struggles of world wars. Allows readers to determine their own 'Mach' (short for Machiavellian) score and discover the characteristics of a classic 'Rogue.' Also reveals a number of the tricks of honorable magicians and less-than-honorable con men, and much, much more. In a world filled with scoundrels, no honest (or at least wise soul should be without this completely unscrupulous book. J. Barton Bowyer is the pseudonym for more than one and fewer than five internationally recognized scholars and historians who over the years have taught at several Ivy League universities and prepared dozens of studies… Read More

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed, without inscription, upon title page by Gary Marcuse. xxi, [xvii], 511 pages. Footnotes, list of primary sources, and index. Many pages of black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Digs past the official moderation and uncovers a systematic state-sponsored repression of communists and the Left, directed at civil servants, scientists, trade unionists, and political activists. Unlike the United States, Canada's purges were shrouded in secrecy imposed by the government and avidly supported by the RCMP security service." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket, now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart, is sunned along spine. A high quality copy..