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King of Spies
- The Dark Reign of America's Spymaster in Korea
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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The New York Times best-selling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the US role in the Korean War and its legacy.
In 1946, Master Sergeant Donald Nichols was repairing jeeps on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three months' training, he was sent to Korea, then a backwater beneath the radar of MacArthur's Pacific Command. Though he lacked the pedigree of most US spies - Nichols was a seventh-grade dropout - he quickly metamorphosed from army mechanic to black ops phenomenon. He insinuated himself into the affections of America's chosen puppet in South Korea, President Syngman Rhee, and became a pivotal player in the Korean War, warning months in advance about the North Korean invasion, breaking enemy codes, and identifying most of the targets destroyed by American bombs in North Korea.
But Nichols' triumphs had a dark side. Immersed in a world of torture and beheadings, he became a spymaster with his own secret base, his own covert army, and his own rules. He recruited agents from refugee camps and prisons, sending many to their deaths on reckless missions. His closeness to Rhee meant that he witnessed - and did nothing to stop or even report - the slaughter of tens of thousands of South Korean civilians in anticommunist purges. Nichols' clandestine reign lasted for an astounding 11 years.
In this riveting book, Blaine Harden traces Nichols' unlikely rise and tragic ruin, from his birth in an operatically dysfunctional family in New Jersey to his sordid postwar decline, which began when the US military sacked him in Korea, sent him to an air force psych ward in Florida, and subjected him - against his will - to months of electroshock therapy. But King of Spies is not just the story of one American spy: With napalmed villages and severed heads, high-level lies and long-running cover-ups, it reminds us that the darkest sins of the Vietnam War - and many other conflicts that followed - were first committed in Korea.
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- De: Douglas Waller
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals - the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, "Wild Bill" Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency) and the father of today's CIA. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before.
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Birth of the Spyworks Industry
- De Diane en 04-23-12
De: Douglas Waller
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Spymistress
- The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
- De: William Stevenson
- Narrado por: Nicholas Camm
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25. With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, Vera ran countless missions throughout the 1930s. After rising to the leadership echelon in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a covert intelligence agency formed by Winston Churchill, she became head of a clandestine army in World War II.
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Great Story - Unfortunately Monotone Performance
- De Glenn en 03-29-14
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A Great Place to Have a War
- America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
- De: Joshua Kurlantzick
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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In 1960 President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans had ever heard of. Washington feared the country would fall to Communism, triggering a domino effect in the rest of Southeast Asia. So in January 1961, Eisenhower approved the CIA's Operation Momentum, a plan to create a proxy army of ethnic Hmong to fight Communist forces in Laos. While remaining hidden from the American public and most of Congress, Momentum became the largest CIA paramilitary operation in the history of the United States.
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illuminating read of Laos' relationship with USA
- De Daniel en 12-28-18
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Target: Patton
- The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton
- De: Robert K. Wilcox
- Narrado por: Lynn Benson
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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The death of General George S. Patton is shrouded in mystery. While officially the result of an unfortunate car accident, the evidence points to a far more malevolent plot: murder. So says investigative and military journalist Robert K. Wilcox in his book Target: Patton: The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton. Written like a WWII spy thriller and meticulously researched, Target: Patton leads you through that fateful December day in 1945, revealing a chilling plan to assassinate General Patton.
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Fascinating History - also well read.
- De M. en 05-02-12
De: Robert K. Wilcox
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The Butcher's Trail
- How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt
- De: Julian Borger
- Narrado por: Paul Hodgson
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Written with a thrilling narrative pull, The Butcher's Trail chronicles the pursuit and capture of the Balkan war criminals indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Borger recounts how Radovan Karadžic and Ratko Mladic - both now on trial in The Hague - were finally tracked down and describes the intrigue behind the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president who became the first head of state to stand before an international tribunal for crimes perpetrated in a time of war.
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The most comprehensive and unbiased account of ICTY’s inception and development to date
- De AR en 04-18-22
De: Julian Borger
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Operation Columba - The Secret Pigeon Service
- The Untold Story of World War II Resistance in Europe
- De: Gordon Corera
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of the Operation Columba and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. A tale of wartime espionage, bitter rivalries, extraordinary courage, astonishing betrayal, harrowing tragedy, and a quirky, quarrelsome band of spy masters and their special mission, Operation Columba opens a fascinating new chapter in the annals of World War II. It is ultimately, the story of how, in one of the darkest and most dangerous times in history, under threat of death, people bravely chose to resist.
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Belgium Pigeon
- De Don Rottiers en 08-10-21
De: Gordon Corera
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Red Heat
- Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
- De: Alex von Tunzelmann
- Narrado por: Sarah Coomes
- Duración: 19 h y 55 m
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The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the daring of the brazen mavericks who took them on. The superpowers thought they could use Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life.
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Interesting, not extraordinary.
- De History en 10-24-11
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The Fourth Star
- Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
- De: David Cloud, Greg Jaffe
- Narrado por: Richard McGonagle
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military's brutal winnowing to reach its top echelon. They became the Army's most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next century.
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Learning from the Military
- De Joshua Kim en 06-10-12
De: David Cloud, y otros
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The Vietnam War
- An Intimate History
- De: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Ken Burns, Brian Corrigan
- Duración: 31 h y 15 m
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More than 40 years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. When the war divided the country, it created deep political fault lines that continue to divide us today. Now, continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed collaborations, the authors draw on dozens and dozens of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war.
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The usual Vietnam info delivered in the old prose
- De Kevin Warren en 10-26-17
De: Geoffrey C. Ward, y otros
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Legacy of Ashes
- The History of the CIA
- De: Tim Weiner
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 21 h y 37 m
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This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders to the American public. It spun its own truth to the nation while reality lay buried in classified archives. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Tim Weiner offers a stunning indictment of the CIA, a deeply flawed organization that has never deserved America's confidence.
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Flawed but Important
- De Michael en 07-18-08
De: Tim Weiner
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A Man Called Intrepid
- The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero Whose Spy Network and Secret Diplomacy Changed the Course of History
- De: William Stevenson
- Narrado por: David McAlister
- Duración: 21 h y 27 m
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A Man Called Intrepid is the account of the world’s first integrated intelligence operation and of its master, William Stephenson. Codenamed INTREPID by Winston Churchill, Stephenson was charged with establishing and running a vast, worldwide intelligence network to challenge the terrifying force of Nazi Germany. Nothing less than the fate of Britain and the free world hung in the balance as INTREPID covertly set about stalling the Nazis by any means necessary.
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You have to wonder ...
- De Mike From Mesa en 04-15-14
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Grey Wolf
- The Escape of Adolf Hitler
- De: Simon Dunstan, Gerrard Williams
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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When Truman asked Stalin in 1945 whether Hitler was dead, Stalin replied bluntly, "No." As late as 1952, Eisenhower declared: "We have been unable to unearth one bit of tangible evidence of Hitler's death." What really happened? Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams have compiled extensive evidence - some recently declassified - that Hitler actually fled Berlin and took refuge in a remote Nazi enclave in Argentina.
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Intriguing and Utterly Engrossing!
- De morton en 10-27-11
De: Simon Dunstan, y otros
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Rise and Kill First
- The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
- De: Ronen Bergman
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 25 h y 58 m
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The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” This instinct to take every measure, even the most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into Israel’s DNA. From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, protecting the nation from harm has been the responsibility of its intelligence community and armed services, and there is one weapon in their vast arsenal that they have relied upon to thwart the most serious threats: Targeted assassinations have been used countless times, on enemies large and small....
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Eye Opening
- De Ari Safari en 02-09-18
De: Ronen Bergman
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre King of Spies
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- Jessie
- 06-30-23
Extremely Infomative
I rarely listen to the "included" audio books, especially those with fewer reviews but am so glad I did this time! I may not have believed all of it had I not previously listed to so many other books which actually confirmed many of the details told about in this book. I found the ending quite sad.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-19-17
Reads like a Spy Novel!!
A brutal look into how Donald Nichols, an Air Force mechanic with a 7th grade education, became the most feared, controversial, reviled, and revered Spymaster in US military history! Not a feel-good story by far. Given an environment of unchecked power, and indiscretion, held an iron grip on subversion, and intelligence gathering before/during/after the Korean War. I enjoyed how the author toyed around with Nichols' proneness to hyperbole.
This book challenged my knowledge of the Korean War, and exactly how close the Soviet, and then Chinese backed North Korea pushed the US, and their many poor decisions to a crushing defeat. Thoroughly enjoyed this Audible book!
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- Intrepid
- 01-31-20
Great audio book if your into history and. war!
Awsome book that definitly keeps your attention and expounds on a man and his unique war experiences and history.
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- Magneto
- 10-23-17
effing epic!
pretty much binged this entire book from start to finish and loved it. my retired dad taught English lit and isn't much into military history, but loved this book as well.
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- taylorp.eod
- 03-20-24
Such a wild untold story
Like most of the Korean War is forgotten about this untold chapter is such a wild and unusual part that has such a dark ending
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- Lin Tin-tin
- 10-18-24
Unplayable recording
Tried various methods, but every time I got to chapter 4, the recording would lock up. I will get an error message “ there is an issue with playback. “.
Thanks thanks for selling me a broken product Audible.
How many more days are gonna be at unplayable??
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-18-17
I can see why the N Koreans don't like the US
Having lived in S Korea for 7 yrs, I got to know a bit about their history and their natural distrust of foreigners - this guy epitomizes the term "ugly American".
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- Nuclear Dad
- 07-19-23
Sadly repetitive and unstimulating
The author starts the book describing his subject. However, the ensuing chapters only repeat the original introductory narrative about the main character with only slightly more detail. interspersed with historical references at the Encyclopedia Britannica level. This book was selected for me based upon my other books, so I thought I would give it a try since it was highly rated (although a limited set of readers). Won't do that again.
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