ASIN: B00LVYI88K
Publisher: Five Minute Books
Pages: 170
From the #1 bestselling author of History's Greatest Generals comes an exciting new book on the greatest spies in history and how their acts of espionage and covert operations changed the course of history.Whether it is Aeneas Tacticus, who created Western military science; Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster who foiled numerous assassination attempts and forged an international spy network at the dawn of European colonialism; or Richard Sorge, the hard-drinking German spy for the Soviets whose interception of Axis military intelligence prevented the Russian army's collapse in World War II, each of these spies had a major impact on modern society. This book will explore the lives and times of the ten greatest spies, or spy networks, in history. Some have taken on legendary status, such as Mata Hari, the World War One-era exotic dancer and courtesan who shared the bed ...
