Ben Macintyre, Author. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-12985-9. Innumerable soldiers were stranded behind enemy lines in World War I—some injured, some lost, some sole ...

'Operating Mincemeat' author Ben Macintyre discusses his new best-seller — about a daring escape from a notorious Nazi fortress — and breaks down the psychology behind the enduring spy archetype.

AGENT SONYA Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy By Ben Macintyre. We have at last, in Ben Macintyre’s “Agent Sonya,” the tale of a fully fleshed-out female spy. Not a femme fatale with a tiny ...

In “The Siege,” Ben Macintyre gives a lesser-known Iranian hostage crisis its due. A soldier covers the BBC journalist Sim Harris as he escapes from the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980 after ...

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