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61) The human factor
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Maurice Castle is a high-level operative of the British Secret Service during the Cold War era. Deeply in love with his African wife, Castle decides with misgivings to act as a double agent to help his in-laws in South Africa. Eventually Castle begins passing information to the Soviets. In order to evade detection, he allows his assistant to be wrongly identified as the source of the leaks. But when suspicions remain, Castle is forced to make an even...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Allowing herself to be hypnotized, fifteen-year-old Kira reveals memories of another time and place that may eventually cost her and her mother their lives.
63) Stardust
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Having returned from war-torn Europe in 1945 and discovered the mysterious death of his brother, Daniel, Ben Collier delves into the seedy world of the movie business to discover the truth behind Daniel's death.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Special agent James Cronley Jr. finds that fighting both ex-Nazis and the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows, in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the CIA and the Cold War. A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian police in his wake. He's been lying low ever since, but that little vacation is about to end. Somebody--Odessa,...
72) The Ipcress file
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A secret agent is charged with finding and returning a missing biochemist, but what begins as a straight-forward case quickly becomes a deadly conspiracy.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar
Pub. Date
2003, 1969.
Language
English
Description
Polish defector Leiser is promised political asylum in England if he will go back behind the Iron Curtain to confirm the suspicions of British Security Chief LeClerc that East Germany is building a rocket in violation of the disarmament pact.
76) The cold war
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookwright Press
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of the tense, often combative, relations between western capitalist and eastern socialist countries during the period following World War II.
Author
Series
History) volume 22
Publisher
Zak Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of world events from the end of World War II through the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, including wars in Korea and Vietnam, changes in India and Mao's China, and the struggles of Africa and the Third World.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1961 East Berlin, thirteen-year-old Heidi copes with the stress of a crisis with her best friend, government pressure on her father to leave his West Berlin job, her mother's pregnancy, and the ever-present threat of the closing of the border with West Berlin.
Author
Series
George Mueller volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Paul Vidich follows up his acclaimed debut spy thriller with a suspenseful tale of Cold War espionage set in 1950s Cuba, as foreign powers compete to influence the outcome of a revolution"--
