The Secret Agent
In Search of America's Greatest World War II Spy
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Stephan Talty
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Eric Erickson was the most important American spy of World War II. He also had a secret to keep.
In 1942, the Brooklyn-born Erickson was a millionaire oil mogul who volunteered for a dangerous mission inside the Third Reich: Locating the top-secret synthetic oil plants that kept the German war machine running. To fool the Nazis, Erickson played the role of a collaborator. He hung a portrait of Hitler in his apartment and "disowned" his Jewish best friend, then flew to Berlin, where he charmed Himmler and signed lucrative oil deals with the architects of the Final Solution. All the while, he was visiting the oil refineries and passing their coordinates to Allied Bomber Command, who destroyed the plants in a series of B-17 raids, helping to end the war early.
After the war, Erickson's was revealed as a secret agent and received the Medal of Freedom for his bravery. William Holden even played him in a hit Hollywood movie. For a brief moment in the early '60s, Erickson was the most famous spy in the world. His secret? He hadn't played a Nazi collaborator. He'd actually been one - a war profiteer who'd made millions of trading with Hitler before having a change of heart. Black-listed by the Allies and disowned by his family, Erickson had volunteered for the spy mission in order to redeem himself, and ended up saving thousands of Allied lives.
Based on newly-discovered archives in Sweden, The Secret Agent is a riveting piece of narrative nonfiction that tells the true story of Erickson's remarkable life for the first time.
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- De: Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: Clinton Wade
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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Before he remade himself as the master spy known as Garbo, Juan Pujol was nothing more than a Barcelona poultry farmer. But as Garbo, he turned in a masterpiece of deception that changed the course of World War II. Posing as the Nazis’ only reliable spy inside England, he created an imaginary million-man army, invented armadas out of thin air, and brought a vast network of fictional subagents to life. The scheme culminated on June 6, 1944, when Garbo convinced the Germans that the Allied forces approaching Normandy were just a feint - the real invasion would come at Calais.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story, writing overly dramatic
- De Matthew en 08-13-13
De: Stephan Talty
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Agent 110
- An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII
- De: Scott Miller
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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This is the secret and suspenseful account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of Germans conspiring to assassinate Hitler and negotiate surrender to bring about the end of World War II before the Soviet's advance. Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent family. Dulles met with and facilitated the plots of Germans who were trying to destroy the country's leadership.
De: Scott Miller
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 390
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story - Unfortunately Monotone Performance
- De Glenn en 03-29-14
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The Arsenal of Democracy
- FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
- De: A. J. Baime
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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The Arsenal of Democracy tells the incredible story of how Detroit answered the call, centering on Henry Ford and his tortured son Edsel, who, when asked if they could deliver 50,000 airplanes, made an outrageous claim: Ford Motor Company would erect a plant that could yield a “bomber an hour”. Critics scoffed: Ford didn’t make planes; they made simple, affordable cars. But bucking his father’s resistance, Edsel charged ahead.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Misleading title
- De Kindle Customer en 12-01-14
De: A. J. Baime
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Operation Whisper
- The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
- De: Barnes Carr
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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In Operation Whisper, Barnes Carr tells the true story of the most effective Soviet spy couple in America, a pair who vanished under the FBI's nose only to turn up posing as rare book dealers in London, where they continued their atomic spying. The Cohens were talented, dedicated, worldly spies - an urbane, jet-set couple loyal to their service and their friends. Most people they met seemed to think they represented the best of America. The Soviets certainly thought so.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too many facts details
- De Rebecca C. Browne en 10-02-17
De: Barnes Carr
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Dark Invasion
- 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America
- De: Howard Blum
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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When a “neutral” United States becomes a trading partner for the Allies early in World War I, the Germans implement a secret plan to strike back. A team of saboteurs - including an expert on germ warfare, a Harvard professor, and a brilliant, debonair spymaster - devise a series of “mysterious accidents” using explosives and biological weapons, to bring down vital targets such as ships, factories, livestock, and even captains of industry like J. P. Morgan. New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the department’s Bomb Squad, is assigned the difficult mission of stopping them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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German American Intrigue in World War I
- De Hans Rigelman en 10-24-19
De: Howard Blum
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes
- A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
- De: Jason Fagone
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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In 1912, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the US government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the Adam and Eve of the NSA, Elizebeth's story, incredibly, has never been told.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating Biography
- De Jean en 11-20-17
De: Jason Fagone
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Hunting Eichmann
- Chasing Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
- De: Neal Bascomb
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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Best-selling author Neal Bascomb has garnered critical acclaim for such riveting nonfiction as Higher and Red Mutiny. Based on extensive interviews and previously classified details, Hunting Eichmann is a compelling account of the relentless hunt for the nefarious Adolf Eichmann.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Fascinating Story of Eichmann's Capture
- De S. Perry en 03-15-09
De: Neal Bascomb
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Defying Hitler
- The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
- De: Gordon Thomas, Greg Lewis
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 22 h y 1 m
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An enthralling story that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Righteous Few
- De Linda en 05-19-19
De: Gordon Thomas, y otros
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Bridge of Spies
- A True Story of the Cold War
- De: Giles Whittell
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange of the nuclear age? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that electrifying moment on February 10, 1962, when their fates helped to define the conflicts and lethal undercurrents of the most dangerous years of the cold war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bridge of Spies
- De BookReader en 09-28-15
De: Giles Whittell
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The Art of Betrayal
- The Secret History of MI6 - Life and Death in the British Secret Service
- De: Gordon Corera
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 17 h y 44 m
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From Berlin to the Congo, from Moscow to the back streets of London, these are the stories of the agents on the front lines of British intelligence. And the truth is often more remarkable than fiction.
MI6 has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. Our understanding of what it is to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional worlds of Ian Fleming and John le Carré. Gordon Corera provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world and the reality that lies behind the fiction.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good details but lacks thorough research
- De Unapologetic en 09-06-17
De: Gordon Corera
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The Saboteur
- The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
- De: Paul Kix
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur - and his daring exploits as a résistant trained by Britain's Special Operations Executive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brave outstanding young man
- De paula wright en 06-02-20
De: Paul Kix
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy
- Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
- De: Nicholas Reynolds
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime military intelligence expert, began to discover tantalizing clues that suggested Ernest Hemingway's involvement in the Second World War was much more complex and dangerous than has been previously understood. Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy brings to light for the first time this riveting secret side of Hemingway's life - when he worked closely with both the American OSS and the Soviet NKVD to defeat Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So entertaining you'd think it was fiction
- De Austin en 03-16-17
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Agent Josephine
- American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
- De: Damien Lewis
- Narrado por: Damien Lewis
- Duración: 16 h y 40 m
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Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music-hall diva renowned for her singing and dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she was the most highly paid female performer in Europe. When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned from the stage, along with all "negroes and Jews". Yet, instead of returning to America, she vowed to stay and to fight the Nazi evil. Overnight she went from performer to Resistance spy. In Agent Josephine best-selling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little known history of the famous singer's life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A documentary
- De Picky Buyer en 07-18-22
De: Damien Lewis
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A Woman of No Importance
- The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- De: Sonia Purnell
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and - despite her prosthetic leg - helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Maybe it’s the narrator?
- De Andrea en 09-18-19
De: Sonia Purnell
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Disciples
- The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan
- De: Douglas Waller
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 16 h y 53 m
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They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had - Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe under OSS Director Bill Donovan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A "Boys in the Boat" for WWII Intrigue
- De Annie M. en 03-21-16
De: Douglas Waller
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Wise Gals
- The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
- De: Nathalia Holt
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the “wise gals” by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humor and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing untold history
- De Andrea Guzman en 12-15-22
De: Nathalia Holt
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The Last Palace
- Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
- De: Norman Eisen
- Narrado por: Jeff Goldblum
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past. From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book despite goldblum’s narration
- De Fernando Ferrante en 01-19-19
De: Norman Eisen
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Secret Agent
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- Molly
- 07-09-14
Neutral Swede Spies for the Allies~
PLOT: lesser known Swedish neutral who ends up spying for the Allies in WW2.
This is based in a real live man who was born in the USA and moved to SWEDEN to an oil company mogul. He marries a swede and then World War 2 starts. He is recruited to spy for the allies. Erik Erickson is known as RED......his code name and comes up with the idea of a "oil refinery" in neutral Sweden to gain access to the oil refineries in Germany. This aids in helping the allies fine locations for bombings. This is a good audio. Moves alone well and keeps the interest. I give it 3 out of 5.....
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- The Fat Man
- 02-11-17
Well written story of a forgotten hero
A good story of a hero and time that is too fast being forgotten. Highly recommended.
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- Sylvie Loire
- 06-13-16
A beautiful tribute to an amazing man
A wonderful story about a man who had it all. And gave it all up to make a difference and prove to himself that he was a great man. Making great sacrifices to save lives.
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- Octavian Musca
- 03-22-24
Very interesting
The more I listen to spy books the more I understand both World Wars. A must listen
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- Scott C
- 06-17-15
Wish it was longer
A very interesting story, well written with excellent narration. An easy listen. All the relevant elements are covered regarding character development and motivation in an easy paced suspenseful composition.
When I finished the book I found myself wishing it was longer. Not that anything was missing, I just really enjoyed listening experience.
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- Alex Martell
- 12-10-15
Amazing
I finished it in one sitting. It was an amazing spy story of an American hero
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- Computer Nut
- 08-15-14
I wish it would have been longer
Any additional comments?
It was a quick story and was interesting to listen to. I wish it could only have been longer.
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- Tyler
- 05-18-24
Great profile of a spy
Talty is a great author. Makes it entertaining and this is short and to the point.
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