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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES SAS: ROGUE HEROES, STARRING CONNOR SWINDELLS, JACK O'CONNELL, ALFIE ALLEN AND DOMINIC WESTFrom the secret SAS archives and bestselling author Ben Macintyre: The first ever authorized history of the SAS.'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail________________In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it - from behind their own lines.Despite the intense opposition of many in British High Command, Winston Churchill personally gives Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he can find. And so begins the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS.With unprecedented access to the SAS secret files, unseen footage and exclusive interviews with its founder members, SAS: Rogue Heroes tells the remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force, and the immense cost of making it a reality.________________'Thorough and highly entertaining. It would be nigh on impossible to praise it too highly' Daily Express'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' Antony Beevor'Told with deceptive brilliance . . . one the finest books of its kind' Evening StandardSunday Times bestseller, April 2017

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph_____________________________FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROESColditz Castle: a forbidding Gothic tower on a hill in Nazi Germany. You may have heard about the prisoners and their daring and desperate attempts to escape, but that's only part of the real story.In Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle, bestselling historian Ben Macintyre takes us inside the walls of the most infamous prison in history to meet the real men behind the legends. Heroes and bullies, lovers and spies, captors and prisoners living cheek-by-jowl for years in a thrilling game of cat and mouse - and all determined to escape by any means necessary.Deeply researched and full of incredible stories, this is a tale of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances - and will change how you think about Colditz forever._____________________________'Like watching a black-and-white photograph being colourised' Spectator'Every Ben Macintyre book is a treat' The Tablet

A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. The man was a spy. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying. Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever...

Ursula Kuczynski Burton was a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent. Codenamed 'Agent Sonya', her story has never been told - until now.Born to a German Jewish family, as Ursula grew, so did the Nazis' power. As a fanatical opponent of the fascism that ravaged her homeland, Ursula was drawn to communism as a young woman, motivated by the promise of a fair and peaceful society.From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, to preventing nuclear war (or so she believed) by stealing the science of atomic weaponry from Britain to give to Moscow, Ursula conducted some of the most dangerous espionage operations of the twentieth century.In Agent Sonya, Britain's most acclaimed historian Ben Macintyre delivers an exhilarating tale that's as fast-paced as any fiction. It is the incredible story of one spy's life, a life that would alter the course of history...

Brought to you by Penguin.A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'His best book yet' The Times'Macintyre's page-turner is a dazzling portrait of a flawed yet driven individual who risked everything (including her children) for the cause' Sunday TimesDISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE SPY WHO ALMOST KILLED HITLER - FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPY AND THE TRAITORUrsula Kuczynski Burton was a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent. Codenamed 'Agent Sonya', her story has never been told - until now.Born to a German Jewish family, as Ursula grew, so did the Nazis' power. As a fanatical opponent of the fascism that ravaged her homeland, Ursula was drawn to communism as a young woman, motivated by the promise of a fair and peaceful society. From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, to preventing nuclear war (or so she believed) by stealing the science of atomic weaponry from Britain to give to Moscow, Ursula conducted some of the most dangerous espionage operations of the twentieth century.In Agent Sonya, Britain's most acclaimed historian Ben Macintyre delivers an exhilarating tale that's as fast-paced as any fiction. It is the incredible story of one spy's life, a life that would alter the course of history . . . 'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else' John Preston'Macintyre has found a real-life heroine worthy of his gifts as John le Carré's nonfiction counterpart' New York Times 'This book is classic Ben Macintyre . . . quirky human details enliven every page' Spectator © Ben Macintyre 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Brought to you by Penguin.In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The astonishing inside story, revealed for the first time by bestselling historian Ben Macintyre, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of class conflict, homosexuality, espionage, insanity and farce. Through an astonishing range of material, Macintyre reveals a remarkable cast of characters, wider than previously seen and hitherto hidden from history, taking in prisoners and captors who were living cheek-by-jowl in a thrilling game of cat and mouse.From the Indian doctor whose hunger strike and eventual escape reads like a thriller, to America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent, the soldier-prisoners of Colditz were astonishingly imaginative in their escape attempts; but there were many other ways to survive while awaiting their unknown fate. Deeply researched and full of incredible colour, this is the definitive book on one of the greatest war stories ever told.© Ben MacIntyre 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

The true story of a brazen American adventurer who briefly proclaimed himself Prince of Ghor and Lord of the Hazarahs in 1838 by planting an American flag on the Hindu Kush chronicles the life of the soldier, spy, naturalist, and doctor Joseph Harlan. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

"For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre's superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life."--The Washington Post A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time--from the true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and The Spy and the Traitor. " Ben Macintyre is] John le Carré's nonfiction counterpart."--The New York Times A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Minnesota Star Tribune, ParadeAs the American hostage crisis in Iran boiled into its seventh month in the spring of 1980, six heavily armed gunman barged into the Iranian embassy in London, taking twenty-six hostages. What followed over the next six days was an increasingly tense standoff, one that threatened at any moment to spill into a bloodbath. Policeman Trevor Lock was supposed to have gone to the theater that night. Instead, he found himself overpowered and whisked into the embassy. The terrorists never noticed the gun hidden in his jacket. The drama that ensued would force him to find reserves of courage he didn't know he had. The gunmen themselves were hardly one-dimensional--all Arabs, some highly educated, who hoped to force Britain to take their side in their independence battle against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Behind the scenes lurked the brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who had bankrolled the whole affair as a salvo against Iran. As police negotiators pressed the gunmen, rival protestors clashed violently outside the embassy, and as MI6 and the CIA scrambled for intelligence, Britain's special forces strike team, the SAS, laid plans for a dangerous rescue mission. Inside, Lock and his fellow hostages used all the cunning they possessed to outwit and outflank their captors. Finally, on the sixth day, after the terrorists executed the embassy press attach and dumped his body on the front doorstep, the SAS raid began, sparking a deadly high-stakes climax. A story of ordinary men and women under immense pressure, The Siege takes readers minute-by-thrilling-minute through an event that would echo across the next two decades and provide a direct historical link to the tragedy on 9/11. Drawing on exclusive interviews and a wealth of never-before-seen files, Macintyre brilliantly reconstructs a week in which every day minted a new hero and every second spelled the potential for doom.

"For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre's superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life."--The Washington Post A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time--from the true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and The Spy and the Traitor. " Ben Macintyre is] John le Carré's nonfiction counterpart."--The New York Times A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Minnesota Star Tribune, ParadeAs the American hostage crisis in Iran boiled into its seventh month in the spring of 1980, six heavily armed gunman barged into the Iranian embassy in London, taking twenty-six hostages. What followed over the next six days was an increasingly tense standoff, one that threatened at any moment to spill into a bloodbath. Policeman Trevor Lock was supposed to have gone to the theater that night. Instead, he found himself overpowered and whisked into the embassy. The terrorists never noticed the gun hidden in his jacket. The drama that ensued would force him to find reserves of courage he didn't know he had. The gunmen themselves were hardly one-dimensional--all Arabs, some highly educated, who hoped to force Britain to take their side in their independence battle against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Behind the scenes lurked the brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who had bankrolled the whole affair as a salvo against Iran. As police negotiators pressed the gunmen, rival protestors clashed violently outside the embassy, and as MI6 and the CIA scrambled for intelligence, Britain's special forces strike team, the SAS, laid plans for a dangerous rescue mission. Inside, Lock and his fellow hostages used all the cunning they possessed to outwit and outflank their captors. Finally, on the sixth day, after the terrorists executed the embassy press attach and dumped his body on the front doorstep, the SAS raid began, sparking a deadly high-stakes climax. A story of ordinary men and women under immense pressure, The Siege takes readers minute-by-thrilling-minute through an event that would echo across the next two decades and provide a direct historical link to the tragedy on 9/11. Drawing on exclusive interviews and a wealth of never-before-seen files, Macintyre brilliantly reconstructs a week in which every day minted a new hero and every second spelled the potential for doom.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible untold story of World War II's greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue--now a limited series on MGM+ "Reads like a mashup of The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, with a sprinkling of Ocean's 11 thrown in for good measure."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - "Rogue Heroes is a ripping good read."--Washington Post (10 Best Books of the Year) Britain's Special Air Service--or SAS--was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young aristocrat whose aimlessness belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a World War II battlefield map and saw a protracted struggle, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite men, he could parachute behind Nazi lines and sabotage their airplanes and supplies. Defying his superiors' conventional wisdom, Stirling assembled a revolutionary fighting force that would upend not just the balance of the war, but the nature of combat itself. Bringing his keen eye for detail to a riveting wartime narrative, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented access to the SAS archives to shine a light on a legendary unit long shrouded in secrecy.

Ben Macintyre, maestro de la literatura de espionaje, consigue ofrecernos una imagen real de la actuaci n de los servicios secretos durante la Guerra Fr a.Esta es la historia, por primera vez contada en toda su verdad, de Oleg Gordievski, que lleg a ser un alto mando de la KGB sovi tica a la vez que actuaba como informador del MI6 brit nico: el hombre que con sus advertencias a los gobiernos brit nico y norteamericano consigui evitar que en 1985 se desencadenase un holocausto at mico y ayud a acelerar el fin de la Guerra Fr a.Ben Macintyre, maestro de la literatura de espionaje, consigue en esta ocasi n, gracias a disponer de una informaci n privilegiada, ofrecernos una imagen real de la actuaci n de los servicios secretos durante la Guerra Fr a. Pero su libro es tambi n la historia de un hombre que vivi en un constante riesgo de muerte y tuvo que tomar las decisiones m s dif ciles; un hombre cuyo odio por el comunismo tuvo el poder de cambiar el futuro de las naciones para protagonizar una historia con la que Macintyre consigue emocionarnos.

Forfatteren av bestselgeren Spion og forræder er tilbake med en ny fascinerende spionthriller fra virkeligheten Denne gangen har Ben Macintyre plassert en kvinnelig agent i sentrum. Fortellingen om Ursula Kuczynski, med kodenavn Sonya, er som en europeisk historie i miniatyr. Som ung jødisk kvinne vokser hun opp i et stadig mer fiendtlig Tyskland. Hun blir overbevist kommunist og lar seg verve som spion for russerne. Under annen verdenskrig lever hun et tilsynelatende anonymt husmorliv i England. Men i hagen bak huset har hun hemmelig radiokontakt med Sovjetunionen, der hun avslører viktig informasjon om utviklingen av atombomben. I en mannsdominert bransje gjør Sonya en spektakulær karriere og blir forfremmet til oberst. Men MI5 er på sporet av mesterspionen, og snart brenner jorden under føttene hennes.

Den 6 juni 1944 landsteg 150 000 allierade soldater vid Normandies stränder. Dagen D var en makalös militär prestation, men även ett mästerverk i vilseledning som innefattade samtliga delar av de allierades underrättelsetjänst Spionerna som möjliggjorde invasionen av Normandie var fem till antalet och tveklöst en av de underligaste och mest excentriska skara människor som någonsin deltagit i ett krig: en bisexuell peruansk playgirl, en kortväxt polsk stridspilot, en serbisk Casanova, en spansk kycklinguppfödare med en mer än livlig fantasi samt en hysterisk fransyska vars besatthet av sin hund närapå kom att välta hela invasionen över ända. Men framgången vilade även på en sjätte spions hjältemodiga uppoffring; en historia som nu för första gången kan berättas i sin helhet. Double Cross är den tredje och avslutande delen i Ben Macintyre´s framgångsrika spiontriologi. De tidigare fristående delarna Agent ZigZag och Operation Mincemeat har blivit hyllade av såväl läsare som kritiker världen över.

Ingen anade vad Mrs Burton, hemmafru i det idylliska Oxfordshire, ägnade dagarna åt. Hennes riktiga namn var Ursula Kuczynski, men har gått till historien under sitt kodnamn: Sonya.Hon var tysk judinna och tidigt en hängiven kommunist, hon blev sedermera överste i röda armén och en förstklassigt tränad spion. Hennes verksamhet sträckte sig över hela världen. Från Schweiz planerade hon ett mordförsök på Hitler, hon spionerade på japanerna i Manchuriet och hjälpte Sovjetunionen att bygga sitt första kärnvapen. Ensam eller i grupp genomförde agent Sonya några av de farligaste spionaktionerna under 1900-talet.Agent Sonya är en fängslande levnadsteckning över en kvinnas liv, ett liv som följde Sovjetkommunismens uppgång och fall och satte avtryck i historien. Författaren har åstadkommit en i det närmaste osannolik, dokumentär berättelse om en kvinna med många roller: älskarinna, mamma, soldat och spion. Detta är hennes historia.Ben Macintyre är en av Storbritanniens mest erkända historiker och författare till miljonsäljande titlar som En spion bland vänner, SAS och Spion och förrädare.

»Det här är faktiskt den mest spännande boken som går att hitta i bokhandeln just nu … Den är så himla välskriven och spännande … Jag har inte andats sen jag först läste den« Jenny Lindh, TV4 NyhetsmorgonÖverste Oleg Gordievskij var på toppen av sin karriär. 46 år gammal hade han blivit befordrad till drömpositionen på KGB:s Londonkontor och inbjuden till högkvarteret i Moskva för att formellt bli krönt som chef över hela KGB. När han anlände till Moskva vandrade Gordievskij självsäkert genom flygplatsens säkerhetskontroll. Inombords kände han dock en djup oro KGB veteranen Gordievskij, Sovjetunionens trogne hemlige tjänare, var nämligen brittisk spion. Den internationellt bästsäljande författaren Ben Macintyre skriver i Spion och förrädare om det djärvaste kapitlet i spionagets historia. Det är en berättelse om svek, dubbelspel och dristighet som ändrade kalla krigets riktning för alltid. Ben Macintyre är i grunden historiker men arbetar till vardags på The Times. Han har skrivit ett tiotals böcker om spionagets och kalla krigets historia. Röster om boken:»Den bästa sanna spionhistoria jag någonsin läst!« John le Carré »Jag läser stora delar med munnen halvöppen. Aldrig har väl uttrycket sanningen överträffar alltid dikten varit mer träffande Visst, det här är något så ovanligt som en faktabok som känns mer spännande än de flesta thrillers. Ändå är det inte bokens främsta tillgång. Det bästa är att den lär mig saker jag aldrig hade kunnat fantisera ihop på egen hand.« Malin Persson Giolito, författare till Störst av allt »Kort sagt är Spion och förrädare en milstolpe i spionlitteraturen och en stor läsupplevelse.« Lars Gyllenhaal, militärhistoriker »John le Carré och jag är helt överens. Det här är den bästa sanna spionhistoria vi någonsin läst. Under elva år spionerade KGB-agenten Oleg Gordievsky för engelska säkerhetstjänsten MI6. Skildringen av hans liv och gärning är lysande läsning, ibland så spännande att jag nästan får hjärtklappning. Samtidigt är det en enastående historielektion om det kalla kriget och hur nära vi en gång var ett kärnvapenkrig.« Ingalill Mosander, Senioren

Ingen anade vad Mrs Burton, hemmafru i det idylliska Oxfordshire, ägnade dagarna åt. Hennes riktiga namn var Ursula Kuczynski, men har gått till historien under sitt kodnamn: Sonya.Hon var tysk judinna och tidigt en hängiven kommunist, hon blev sedermera överste i röda armén och en förstklassigt tränad spion. Hennes verksamhet sträckte sig över hela världen. Från Schweiz planerade hon ett mordförsök på Hitler, hon spionerade på japanerna i Manchuriet och hjälpte Sovjetunionen att bygga sitt första kärnvapen. Ensam eller i grupp genomförde agent Sonya några av de farligaste spionaktionerna under 1900-talet.Agent Sonya är en fängslande levnadsteckning över en kvinnas liv, ett liv som följde Sovjetkommunismens uppgång och fall och satte avtryck i historien. Författaren har åstadkommit en i det närmaste osannolik, dokumentär berättelse om en kvinna med många roller: älskarinna, mamma, soldat och spion. Detta är hennes historia.Ben Macintyre är en av Storbritanniens mest erkända historiker och författare till miljonsäljande titlar som En spion bland vänner, SAS och Spion och förrädare.

Tosielämän trillerien mestari kertoo 1900-luvun pelottomimmasta naisvakoojasta.Oxfordin lähettyvillä asui elegantti nainen vuonna 1942. Hän vaikutti tavalliselta perheenäidiltä, mutta oli vannoutunut kommunisti ja korkea-arvoinen neuvostovakooja. Koodinimi Sonjan tehtävä oli varastaa Britannian ydinasesalaisuudet.Agentti Sonja on tosielämän jännityskertomus Ursula Kuczinskistä. Vakoojana hän oli mukana Hitlerin salamurhajuonessa, rakensi pommeja ja vakoili Mantšuriassa. Hänen kannoillaan olivat natsit, kiinalaiset, japanilaiset, FBI ja MI6. Päiväkirjojen, kirjeiden ja arkistolöytöjen avulla MacIntyre luo kuvan vaarallisesta naisesta, joka viritti kylmän sodan sytytyslangan.

Tositrilleri natsien legendaarisesta linnavankilasta ja sen vankien hengästyttävän uskaliaista paoista. Natsi-Saksa vangitsi Colditzin linnaan liittoutuneiden upseereita, joiden pelättiin yrittävän pakoa. Pelko ei ollut turha: sadat pakoyritykset tekivät saksalaislinnasta kuuluisan.Bestselleristi Ben Macintyre kertoo mukaansatempaavasti Colditzin vangeista ja vartijoista. Herrasmiesleiri poikkesi monista sodan kauhuista: siellä ei nähty summittaisia teloituksia, ja upseerivangeilla oli omia sotilaspalvelijoita. Muurien sisään syntyi omalaatuinen yhteisö, jossa toivoa ylläpitävään toverihenkeen yhdistyivät rasismi ja brittiläisen luokkayhteiskunnan nokkimisjärjestys.