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The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I

13 reviews
Ben Macintyre

Delta, 2003

History at ground level
This is a wonderfully written book on several levels. To begin with, and perhaps most importantly, Macintyre is a terrific writer, researcher, and storyteller. This is not a dry history about names and dates, but rather about relationships and the misfortune of living in the wrong area at the wrong time. Macintyre beautifully illustrates the shifting alliances in a small town in France, ...

For Your Eyes Only
Ben Macintyre

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008

Agent ZigZag (Agent ZigZag Love Traitor Hero)
Ben Macintyre, 2007

The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan

19 reviews
Ben Macintyre

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005

The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan
In Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, a young adventurer named Daniel Dravot penetrates feudal Afghanistan disguised as a cleric. In this nonfiction account with a similar title, MacIntyre, a columnist for The Times of London, tells the story of the real life adventurer who may have been Kipling's inspiration. He describes the life and adventures of Josiah Harlan (1799-1871), a young ...

Agent Zigzag
Ben Macintyre

Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2007

For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond

1 review
Ben Macintyre

Bloomsbury USA, 2008

For the uninitiated into Ian Fleming's world....
As one who studied Fleming's work extensively as a graduate student and later publishing a thesis on the writer's impact on pop culture of the period, I must admit I was a bit skeptical about yet another bland and redundant Bond "coffee table" book for the masses. Happily, this is not the case with "For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond" by Ben Macintyre, written on the centenary of the ...

Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche

10 reviews
Ben MacIntyre

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1992

A Provocative Woman
This is one of the most curious books I have ever read: on the one hand, there is the story of a failed 19th C German colony in Paraguay, founded on eugenic principles that would be echoed in Hitler's time; on the other hand, there is the biography of one of the most overlooked figures in 19th C philosophy - Elisabeth Nietzsche, sister of the famed philosopher, and apparently the one who twisted ...

Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

25 reviews
Ben Macintyre

Three Rivers Press, 2008

Truth as fun or better than fiction
Those skeptical about how compelling a non-fiction book can be, especially one that recounts events from nearly 70 years ago will be pleasently surprised. The author is a journalist who brings the story to life with a quick pace and paints avid picture of the setting without needless words. I am not a World War II buff particularly, but I was thoroughly engrossed by the story; if you are then ...

The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief

23 reviews
Ben Macintyre

Delta, 1998

Elementary, Dear Adam
This book provides a fascinating portrait of one of the last of the gentleman criminals. In fact, Adam Worth wanted to be known solely as a gentleman rather than as a notorious criminal. The crimes were simply his way of gaining power and prestige in a Victorian world where he could never gain this position without buying it. And buy it he did by perpetrating almost every crime imaginable. An ...

A Foreign Field
Ben Macintyre

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2002

The Napoleon of Crime
Ben Macintyre

Flamingo, 1998

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