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Author: Carrie Jones Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing ™ ISBN: 154151713X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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Moe Berg is not a typical baseball player. He's Jewish—very unusual for the major leagues in the 1930s—has a law degree, speaks several languages, and loves traveling the world. He also happens to be a spy for the U.S. government. When World War II begins, Moe trades his baseball career for a life of danger and secrecy. Using his unusual range of skills, he sneaks into enemy territory to gather crucial information that could help defeat the Nazis. But he also has plenty of secrets of his own. . .
Author: Carrie Jones Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing ™ ISBN: 154151713X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 35
Book Description
Moe Berg is not a typical baseball player. He's Jewish—very unusual for the major leagues in the 1930s—has a law degree, speaks several languages, and loves traveling the world. He also happens to be a spy for the U.S. government. When World War II begins, Moe trades his baseball career for a life of danger and secrecy. Using his unusual range of skills, he sneaks into enemy territory to gather crucial information that could help defeat the Nazis. But he also has plenty of secrets of his own. . .
Author: Nicholas Dawidoff Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307807096 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 482
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd “A delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA. For Berg was much more than a third-string catcher who played on several major league teams between 1923 and 1939. Educated at Princeton and the Sorbonne, he as reputed to speak a dozen languages (although it was also said he couldn't hit in any of them) and went on to become an OSS spy in Europe during World War II. As Nicholas Dawidoff follows Berg from his claustrophobic childhood through his glamorous (though equivocal) careers in sports and espionage and into the long, nomadic years during which he lived on the hospitality of such scattered acquaintances as Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein, he succeeds not only in establishing where Berg went, but who he was beneath his layers of carefully constructed cover. As engrossing as a novel by John le Carré, The Catcher Was a Spy is a triumphant work of historical and psychological detection.
Author: Scott Reister Publisher: Young Dragons ISBN: 1633738868 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 243
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On this diamond, the final out could cost you everything. Get ready for an adrenaline-packed adventure with fourteen-year-old Zane Mitchell! After a tough game with his new baseball team, Zane returns home to find his mom gone and a mysterious Federal Agent at his door. That’s just the beginning of this wild ride, though. One of his teammates is a rogue hacker on a mission to uncover an explosive government secret, and Zane is the only one who can stop them. The stakes are high as Zane races against time to find the traitor before they strike at Falcon Field, Zane’s very own little league ground. Hidden devices, undercover agents, and a deadly game of cat and mouse await as he navigates the dangerous twists and turns of this spy game without tipping off his enemy. Can Zane save his family and protect the nation’s secrets? Or will he strike out and lose everything—including his life? Find out in this heart-pounding thriller where every pitch could be a game-changer!
Author: Jeri Cipriano Publisher: Red Chair Press ISBN: 1634405919 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Some people call him the smartest baseball player of all time. Moe Berg could speak twelve languages—and make up signs on the baseball diamond. How did this major league catcher go on to become an American spy in World War II?
Author: Sam Kean Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 0316381667 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 464
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From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb. Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the middle of building an atomic bomb, the leaders of the Manhattan Project were alarmed to learn that Nazi Germany was far outpacing the Allies in nuclear weapons research. Hitler, with just a few pounds of uranium, would have the capability to reverse the entire D-Day operation and conquer Europe. So they assembled a rough and motley crew of geniuses -- dubbed the Alsos Mission -- and sent them careening into Axis territory to spy on, sabotage, and even assassinate members of Nazi Germany's feared Uranium Club. The details of the mission rival the finest spy thriller, but what makes this story sing is the incredible cast of characters -- both heroes and rogues alike -- including: Moe Bergm, the major league catcher who abandoned the game for a career as a multilingual international spy; the strangest fellow to ever play professional baseball. Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist credited as the discoverer of quantum mechanics; a key contributor to the Nazi's atomic bomb project and the primary target of the Alsos mission. Colonel Boris Pash, a high school science teacher and veteran of the Russian Revolution who fled the Soviet Union with a deep disdain for Communists and who later led the Alsos mission. Joe Kennedy Jr., the charismatic, thrill-seeking older brother of JFK whose need for adventure led him to volunteer for the most dangerous missions the Navy had to offer. Samuel Goudsmit, a washed-up physics prodigy who spent his life hunting Nazi scientists -- and his parents, who had been swept into a concentration camp -- across the globe. Irène and Frederic Joliot-Curie, a physics Nobel-Prize winning power couple who used their unassuming status as scientists to become active members of the resistance. Thrust into the dark world of international espionage, these scientists and soldiers played a vital and largely untold role in turning back one of the darkest tides in human history.
Author: Ken Mochizuki Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group ISBN: 1430129824 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 30
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"Author Ken Mochizuki reads his award-winning book. There is some soft background music, and a few gentle sound effects, but the power of the words need little embellishment...This treasure of a book is well-treated in this format." - School Library Journal
Author: Jon M. Fishman Publisher: Lerner Publications ™ ISBN: 1541537629 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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Aaron Judge broke a thirty-year-old MLB record and won the home run derby—as a rookie. And he shows no signs of slowing down. Sports fans will love this high-action book about one of baseball's newest stars.
Author: Marissa Moss Publisher: ABRAMS ISBN: 1613124937 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 52
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As a boy, Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family are sent to one of ten internment camps where more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry are imprisoned without trials. Zeni brings the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense of hope. This true story, set in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, introduces children to a little-discussed part of American history through Marissa Moss’s rich text and Yuko Shimizu’s beautiful illustrations. The book includes author and illustrator notes, archival photographs, and a bibliography.
Author: Carrie Jones
Author: Carrie Jones
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