For SALE – Books on Secret War

Books for sale on espionage & sabotage.

MI5, MI6, MI9, SOE, BSC, OSS etc.

 

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$10 CAD BETWEEN SILK AND CYANIDE - A Codemaker's War 1941-1945 by Loe Marks 1998 Hardcover with dustjacket Illus. 614 pp
$20 CAD SECRET HISTORY OF SOE The Special Operatuions Executive 1940-1945 by William MacKenzie Hardciover. 814 pp
$40 CAD SOE IN THE LOW COUNTRIES by M.R.D.Foot 2001 Hardcover with dustjacket Illus. 553 NOTE: THIS IS FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF AN SOE AGENT WHO IS MENTIONED IN THE BOOK. He retired on Vancouver Island. His address plate is in the book.
$5 CAD BEAULIEU The Finishing School for Seacret Agents 1941-1945 by Syril Cunningham 1998 (2011) Softcover Illus 162 pp
$10 CAD BRITISH SECRET SERVICE DURING THE GREAT WAR by Nicholas Everitt Circa 1920 Illus 320 pp
$10 CAD THE SECRET HISTORY OF MI6 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery 2010 Softcover. Illus. 810 pp
$5 CAD MI6 THE HISTORY OF THEN SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE 1909-1949 Softcover Illus 840 pp
$10 CAD TWO EGGS ON MY PLATE by Oluf Reed Olsen 1952 Hardcover Illus 300 pp About Norwegian Resistance in WWII
$3 CAD EUROPEAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS - The Military History of World War II Volume 15 by Trevor Nevitt Dupy Col. U.S. Army, Ret. 1965 HardcoveriLLUS. 88 PP
$10 CAD DECEPTION IN WORLD WAR II by Charles Cruikshank 1979 Hardcover with dustjacket Illus. 248 pp
$5 CAD THE EMBATTLED MOUNTIAN by F.W.D. Deakin 1984 Illus. 294 pp About British SOE officvers working with Yugoslav Resistance (Tito's Partizans)
$2 CAD THE WAR MAGICIAN by David Fisher Softcover Illus 427 pp Story of Jasper Maskeline, The Magic Gang, created illusions to deceive the Germans in WWII.
$5 CAD THE MAKING OF A SECRET AGENT - The Pickersgill Letters edited by George H. Ford. Softcover, Illus 279 pp About Canadian SOE agent Frank H.D. Pickersgill who was executed by the Nazis at Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
$5 CAD SABOTAGE AND SUBVERSION - The SOE and OSS at War by Ian Dear Softcover Illus 252 pp
$20 CAD THE SECRET WAR OF CHARLES FRASER-SMITH The "Q" Gadget Wizard of World War II Autobiography by Charles Fraser-Smith Softcover Illus 160 pp Invented MI-9 escape devices such as hidden compasses. AUTOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR !
$5 CAD THE JUNGLE IS NEUTRAL by F. Spencer Chapman DSO Softcover Illus 381 pp
$2 CAD THE HEAVY WATER RAID by John D. Drummond 1962 219 pp Raid on Nazi Heavy Water facility at Telemark in Norway during WWII to stop their development of the atomic bomb.
$1 ASSAULT IN NORWAY by Thomas Gallagher 1976 238 pp Raid on Heavy Water plant.
$10 CAD CHURCHILL'S UNDERGROUND ARMY A History of the Auxilliary Units in World War II by John Warwicker 2008 (2013) Softcover 266 pp
$10 CAD MOST SECRET WAR - British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 by R.V. Jones1978 Hardcover with dust jacket Illus, 3556 pp.
$10 CAD ABUNDANCE OF VALOR - Resistance, Survival, and Liberation: 1944-45 by Will Irwin 2010 Hardcover with dustjacket 378 pp
$115 CAD A MOST UNGENTLEMANLY WAY OF WAR - The SOE and the Canadian Connection by Colonel Bernd Horn 2016 Softcover Illus 238 pp
$19 SPYMISTRESS - The Life of Vera Atkins. The greatest female secret agent of World War II by William Stevenson 2007 Illus 354 pp
$10 CAD DEADLY ALLIES Canada's Secret War 1937-1947 by John Bryden Hardcover with dustyjacket. Illus. 314 pp.
$10 CAD WE LANDED BY MOONLIGHT by Hugh Verity Hardcover with dustjacket. Illus. 256 pp.
$40 CAD CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS The Arms anbd Techniues of the Resistance 1941-1944 by Pierre Lorain (in English) 1972 (1983) Hardcover NO dustjacket. Illus. 185 pp. Classic reference with superb line drawings of weapons, wireless equipment, aircraft, codes, sabotage devices etc. SCARCE BOOK
$5 CAD BODYGUARD OF LIES by Anthony Cave Brown 1975 Hardcover with dustjacket. Illus 524 pp
$5 CAD WAR IN THE SHADOWS - The Guerilla in History Volume One by Robert B. Asprey 1975 Hardcover with dustjacket. Maps. 665 pp.
$5 CAD ENIGMA The true story through contemporary documents - Codebreaking and the Second World War. by Oliver Hoare at The Public Record Office Facsilimes of original documents.
$10 CAD SOE AGENT - Churchill's Secret Warriors by Terry Crowdy Illus by Steve Noon 2008 Softcover 64 pp
$10 CAD 25-1-1 - Camp X Museum Society Journal Vol. 1 No. 3 Aug/Sep VERY SCARCE I have an article published in it on SOE insignia.
$5 CAD VESTERHEIM WWII - A publication of the Vesterhein Norwegian-American Museum Vol. 5 No. 2 2007 Special edition on WWII in NORWAY. Articles on Women, OSS-agents (including OSS agent's unjform) etc. Illus. 84 pp.
$15 CAD CHILDHOOD, WAR AND PEACE 1920-1950 by Len Mulholland. Softcover. Illus. 241 pp. SIGNED BY AUTHOR WHO WAS AN SOE SECRET AGENT IN HOLLAND. THIS CORRECTS THE BOOK "NIGHTDROP AT EDE" WHICH WAS ABOUT HIM BUT HAD ERRORS.
$5 CAD SOLDIER SPY The true story of an MI5 officer risking his life to save yours by Tom Marcus 2016 (2017) Softcover. NO illus. 322 pp.
$2 CAD OFFICIAL SECRETS - The inside story of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service by Richard Cleroux. 1991 NO illus. 321 pp
$10 THE TRUE INTREPID Sir William Stephenson and the Unknown Agents - The secret war of William Stephenson 'The Quiet Canadian' by Bill MacDonald 1998 Hardcover with dustjacket. Illus. 429 pp
$10 A MAN CALLED INTREPID - The Sceret War by William Stevenson 1976 hardcover with dustjacket. Illus. 486 pp. ADLY I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS BOOK IS ALL THAT ACCURATE BUT IT DID MAKE INTREPID FAMOUS. Research notations throughout.
$20 CAD CANADIANS BEHIND ENEMY LINES 1939 - 1945 by Roy MacLaren 1981 Hardcover Illus. 330 pp. SIGNED BY CANADIAN SOE AGENT NDY DUROVECZ . Second signature is unidentified.
$10 WINSTON CHURCHILL'S TOYSHOP - The invention and making of England's secret weapons by Stuart McCraem 1971 Hardcover with dustjacket Illus 228 pp
$5 CAD FOR SWERVICES RENDERED - LESLIE JAMES BENNETT AND THE RCMP SECURITY SERVICE [predecessor to CSIS) by John Sawatzky 1982 Hardcover with dust jacket 399 pp Illus
$10 CAD THE TRUE INTREPID - SIR WILLIAM STEOPHENSON AND THE UNKNOWN AGENTS 2001 Softcover 414 pp Illus

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