This collection of the world's great true spy adventures ranges in time from Greek antiquity into the Cold War. Allen Dulles's unparalleled knowledge of the craft of intelligence and his deep interest in the literature of the field guarantee the quality of the 39 selections. Contents: "Stealing the Plans" by Richard Collier "The Spy the Nazis Missed" by Edward P. Morgan "Cicero - The Case of the Ambassador's Valet" by L.C. Moyzisch "The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Agent" by Edward R.F. Sheehan "The Playboy Sergeant" by Don Oberdorfer "The Colonel Turns West" from The Penkovskiy Papers "Casanova's Journey to Dunkirk" from Memoirs of Jacques Casanova "Spymaster George Washington" by Corey Ford "The Spy on the Postage Stamp" by F.W. Deakin and G.R. Storry "The Red Orchestra" by David J. Dallin "They Gave the Bomb Away" by Oliver Pilat "Behind the Line" from A Letter from Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens "The Capture of the Grand Chef" by David J. Dallin "The Naval Secrets Case" by John Bullock and Henry Miller "The Agent the Soviets Wanted Caught" by Rebecca West "The Atom Spy Who Had to Confess" by Alan Moorehead "The Tell-Tale Air" by Alexander Foote "Crossing the Delaware" by Leonard Falkner "To Kill a Czar" by Boris Nikolajewsky "The Neutral Attaché" by Thomas Whiteside "The Clerk They Wouldn't Believe" by Igor Gouzenko "Burma Farewell" by Aleksandr Kaznacheev "The Disappearing Fields" by FLora Lewis "Babylon Falls Again" from The Works of Herodotus "The Man Who Never Was" by Ewen Montagu "Overlord Goes Underground" by the Editors of the Army Times "News Made to Order" from Communist Forgeries, U.S. Senate Hearings "A German Blunder" by Barbara W. Tuchman "Keeping a Secret" from Marshall-Dewey Letters "Eyes from the Sky" by Constance Babington-Smith "The Case of the Wayward Missile" by James McGovern "Spying on the Winds" by Lewis L. Strauss "Last-Minute MAGIC" by Roberta Wohlstetter "The Dark December" by Hanson W. Baldwin "The Venlo Incident" by Walter Schellenberg "Assassin Disarmed by Love" by John L. Steele "The Archtraitor" by Richard Wilmer Rowan "London Calling North Pole" by H.J. Giskes "Prelude to Invasion" by Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden
