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Ben Macintyre


BEN MACINTYRE is writer-at-large and associate editor of the Times of London. He is the author of Agent Zigzag, The Man Who Would Be King, The Englishman’s Daughter, The Napoleon of Crime, and Forgotten Fatherland. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Kate Muir, and their three children.

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Double Cross
Written by Ben Macintyre

Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Broadway | History - Modern - 20th Century; History - Military - World War II; History - Military - Strategy
978-0-307-88877-8 (0-307-88877-0)

May 14, 2013 | $18.00

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Double Cross
Written by Ben Macintyre

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307888778
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   On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military accomplishment, it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the Double Cross system, which specialized in turning German spies...


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Ben Macintyre's World War II Espionage Files
Written by Ben Macintyre

eBook | 768 pages | Broadway | History - Modern - 20th Century; History - Military - World War II
978-0-385-34867-6 (0-385-34867-3)

September 4, 2012 | $27.99

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Ben Macintyre's World War II Espionage Files
Written by Ben Macintyre

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385348676
Our Price: $27.99


Ben Macintyre’s two bestselling accounts of World War II espionage are now available together exclusively as an ebook with an excerpt from the New York Times bestseller, Double Cross. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Agent Zigzag is the story of Eddie Chapman, a charmer, a criminal, a con...


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Double Cross
Written by Ben Macintyre

Hardcover | 416 pages | Crown | History - Modern - 20th Century; History - Military - World War II; History - Military - Strategy
978-0-307-88875-4 (0-307-88875-4)

July 31, 2012 | $31.00

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Double Cross
Written by Ben Macintyre

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307888754
Our Price: $31.00
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In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory.  In Double Cross, Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the...


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Double Cross
Written by Ben Macintyre

eBook | 432 pages | Broadway | History - Modern - 20th Century; History - Military - World War II; History - Military - Strategy
978-0-307-88876-1 (0-307-88876-2)

July 31, 2012 | $13.99

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Double Cross
Written by Ben Macintyre

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307888761
Our Price: $13.99


In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory.  In Double Cross, Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the...


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Double Cross
Written by Ben Macintyre

Trade Paperback | 592 pages | Random House Large Print | History - Modern - 20th Century; History - Military - World War II; History - Military - Strategy
978-0-307-99068-6 (0-307-99068-0)

July 31, 2012 | $31.00

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Double Cross
Written by Ben Macintyre

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307990686
Our Price: $31.00
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In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory.  In Double Cross, Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the...


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Double Cross
Written by Ben Macintyre
Read by John Lee

Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Random House Audio | History - Modern - 20th Century; History - Military - World War II; History - Military - Strategy
978-0-307-99043-3 (0-307-99043-5)

July 31, 2012 | $46.00

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Double Cross
Written by Ben Macintyre, Read by John Lee

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780307990433
Our Price: $46.00
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In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory.  In Double Cross, Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the...


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Double Cross
Written by Ben Macintyre
Read by John Lee

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | History - Modern - 20th Century; History - Military - World War II; History - Military - Strategy
978-0-307-99044-0 (0-307-99044-3)

July 31, 2012 | $24.00

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Double Cross
Written by Ben Macintyre, Read by John Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780307990440
Our Price: $24.00


In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory.  In Double Cross, Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the...


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Forgotten Fatherland
Written by Ben Macintyre

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Broadway | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-88644-6 (0-307-88644-1)

April 5, 2011 | $17.00

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Forgotten Fatherland
Written by Ben Macintyre

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307886446
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In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich’s bigoted, imperious sister, founded a “racially pure” colony in Paraguay together with a band of blonde-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of this “Nueva Germania” to discover the remains of this bizarre colony. Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous...

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Forgotten Fatherland
Written by Ben Macintyre

eBook | pages | Broadway | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-88645-3 (0-307-88645-X)

April 5, 2011 | $12.99

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Forgotten Fatherland
Written by Ben Macintyre

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307886453
Our Price: $12.99


In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich’s bigoted, imperious sister, founded a “racially pure” colony in Paraguay together with a band of blonde-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of this “Nueva Germania” to discover the remains of this bizarre colony. Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous...

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The Napoleon of Crime
Written by Ben Macintyre

Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Broadway | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-88646-0 (0-307-88646-8)

April 5, 2011 | $17.00

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The Napoleon of Crime
Written by Ben Macintyre

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307886460
Our Price: $17.00
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He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.
He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. . . .

--Sherlock Holmes on Professor Moriarty in "The Final Problem"

The Victorian era's most infamous thief...

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The Napoleon of Crime
Written by Ben Macintyre

eBook | pages | Broadway | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-88647-7 (0-307-88647-6)

April 5, 2011 | $12.99

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The Napoleon of Crime
Written by Ben Macintyre

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307886477
Our Price: $12.99


He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.
He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. . . .

--Sherlock Holmes on Professor Moriarty in "The Final Problem"

The Victorian era's most infamous thief...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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Operation Mincemeat
Written by Ben Macintyre

Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Broadway | History - Modern - 20th Century; History - Military - World War II
978-0-307-45328-0 (0-307-45328-6)

April 5, 2011 | $17.00

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Operation Mincemeat
Written by Ben Macintyre

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307453280
Our Price: $17.00
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Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” (Boston Globe). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans.

In 1943, from a windowless...


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Operation Mincemeat
Written by Ben Macintyre

eBook | 320 pages | Crown | History - Modern - 20th Century; History - Military - World War II
978-0-307-45329-7 (0-307-45329-4)

May 4, 2010 | $13.99

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Operation Mincemeat
Written by Ben Macintyre

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307453297
Our Price: $13.99


Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” (Boston Globe). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans.

In 1943, from a windowless...


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Operation Mincemeat
Written by Ben Macintyre
Read by John Lee

Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Random House Audio | History - Modern - 20th Century; History - Military - World War II
978-0-307-73569-0 (0-307-73569-9)

May 4, 2010 | $41.00

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Operation Mincemeat
Written by Ben Macintyre, Read by John Lee

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780307735690
Our Price: $41.00
   Quantity: 1 


Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” (Boston Globe). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans.

In 1943, from a windowless...

Also available as an unabridged audiobook download, eBook and a trade paperback.

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Operation Mincemeat
Written by Ben Macintyre
Read by John Lee

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | History - Modern - 20th Century; History - Military - World War II
978-0-307-73570-6 (0-307-73570-2)

May 4, 2010 | $24.00

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Operation Mincemeat
Written by Ben Macintyre, Read by John Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780307735706
Our Price: $24.00


Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” (Boston Globe). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans.

In 1943, from a windowless...

Also available as an unabridged audio CD, eBook and a trade paperback.

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