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Author: James Parish Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781981869107 Category : Languages : en Pages : 544
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Part of the Encore Film Book Classics series, this is a reprint of the original text to The Great Spy Pictures: Volume 2 by James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts. This comprehensive resource is a stand-alone follow-up to the authors' The Great Spy Pictures: Volume 1. This new book includes well over 300 entries from worldwide cinema, ranging from the silent era onward. Among the titles discussed are The Great Love (1918), Hotel Imperial (1927), I Spy (1934), The Saint in London (1939), First Comes Courage (1943), Malaya (1949), Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard (1950), Stopover Tokyo (1957), Circle of Deception (1961), The Train (1965), Live and Let Die (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Smiley's People (1982), The Little Drummer Girl (1984), The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), and A View to Kill (1985). Each entry includes in depth cast/characters and technical credits, a discussion of the film, and review quotes. This book also provides a list of genre radio and TV series, and an extensive bibliography of spy novels over the decades. This engaging reference guide is a treasure trove for movie enthusiasts, film historians, and lovers of spy tales. It is also an excellent sourcebook to many of the genre entries now available for viewing on television, the Internet, and DVDs.
Author: Gus Russo Publisher: Twelve ISBN: 1538761327 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 429
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The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they should have been anything but. In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's counterintelligence office and Gennady out of the Soviet Embassy. Both men, already notorious iconoclasts within their respective agencies, were assigned to seduce the other into betraying his country in the urgent final days of the Cold War, but instead the men ended up becoming the best of friends-blood brothers. Theirs is a friendship that never should have happened, and their story is chock full of treachery, darkly comic misunderstandings, bureaucratic inanity, the Russian Mafia, and landmark intelligence breakthroughs of the past half century. In Best of Enemies, two espionage cowboys reveal how they became key behind-the-scenes players in solving some of the most celebrated spy stories of the twentieth century, including the crucial discovery of the Soviet mole Robert Hanssen, the 2010 Spy Swap which freed Gennady from Soviet imprisonment, and how Robert De Niro played a real-life role in helping Gennady stay alive during his incarceration in Russia after being falsely accused of spying for the Americans. Through their eyes, we see the distinctions between the Russian and American methods of conducting espionage and the painful birth of the new Russia, whose leader, Vladimir Putin, dreams he can roll back to the ideals of the old USSR.
Author: James McKay Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786456760 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 256
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Dana Andrews, arguably the finest minimalist actor of his generation, as one critic commented, could convey more with one look than many actors could with a soliloquy. In a film career spanning nearly five decades, Andrews appeared in some of Hollywood's most prestigious productions, including The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). His unique screen presence was shown at its best in such film noir classics as Laura (1944) and Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950). Beginning with an absorbing biographical chapter, this critical survey of Dana Andrews' screen career features a complete filmography with synopses, reviews, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and insightful comments from Andrews and his coworkers. A chronological list of television, radio and theater credits is included.
Author: David Kahn Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1466562048 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 456
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Spies, secret messages, and military intelligence have fascinated readers for centuries but never more than today, when terrorists threaten America and society depends so heavily on communications. Much of what was known about communications intelligence came first from David Kahn's pathbreaking book, The Codebreakers. Kahn, considered the dean of
Author: Ben Macintyre Publisher: Crown ISBN: 1101904208 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 417
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. For nearly a decade, as the Cold War reached its twilight, Gordievsky helped the West turn the tables on the KGB, exposing Russian spies and helping to foil countless intelligence plots, as the Soviet leadership grew increasingly paranoid at the United States's nuclear first-strike capabilities and brought the world closer to the brink of war. Desperate to keep the circle of trust close, MI6 never revealed Gordievsky's name to its counterparts in the CIA, which in turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain's obviously top-level source. Their obsession ultimately doomed Gordievsky: the CIA officer assigned to identify him was none other than Aldrich Ames, the man who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets. Unfolding the delicious three-way gamesmanship between America, Britain, and the Soviet Union, and culminating in the gripping cinematic beat-by-beat of Gordievsky's nail-biting escape from Moscow in 1985, Ben Macintyre's latest may be his best yet. Like the greatest novels of John le Carré, it brings readers deep into a world of treachery and betrayal, where the lines bleed between the personal and the professional, and one man's hatred of communism had the power to change the future of nations.
Author: Toby Miller Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 9780198159520 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 250
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Spyscreen is a genre study of English-language spy fiction film and television between the 1930s and 1960s. Taking as his focus many well-known films and television series, Toby Miller uses a wide range of critical approaches - from textual interpretation, audience studies, and culturalhistory, through auteurism, imperial history, class, and governmentality, to genre, cultural imperialism, and gender.Beginning with an overview of the social and political background to the history, production, and analysis of spy fiction, topics discussed include the first canonical espionage movie, The 39 Steps, key film noir texts such as Gilda and The Third Man, the figure of popular spies, including JamesBond, and the importance of women to the genre. The result is not just an insightful new study of key texts in this popular genre; it is an important intervention in the methodology and practice of Screen Studies.
Author: Stuart Gibbs Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442457546 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
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As 13-year-old Ben, a student at the CIA's academy for future intelligence agents, prepares to go to spy summer camp, he receives a death threat from the evil organization SPYDER, in this companion novel to "Spy School."
Author: James Robert Parish
Author: James Robert Parish
Author: James Parish
Author: James Robert Parish
Author: Gus Russo
Author: James McKay
Author: David Kahn
Author: Ben Macintyre
Author: James Robert Parish
Author: Toby Miller
Author: Stuart Gibbs