Hidden Heroes: 20 Riveting Spy Memoirs & Biographies
Twenty True Tales of Espionage, Disguise, Courage, and Secret Service from Revolution to EmpireBy Allan Pinkerton, Sarah Emma Edmonds, Sarah H. Bradford, Jean Christie Root, William J. Fitz-Patrick, Charlotte Biggs, William Minto, John André, Andrew Lang, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Joseph Orton Kerbey, William Le Queux, Benson John Lossing, French Strother, Lady Isabel Burton, E. C. Downs, Henry Bascom Smith, Alexander Whyte, S. R. Crockett
Length235h 16m
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Hidden Heroes: 20 Riveting Spy Memoirs & Biographies gathers nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writings on espionage, military intelligence, disguise, reconnaissance, and clandestine service. Combining memoir, biography, historical narrative, adventure writing, and reflective portraiture, the volume situates the spy at the meeting point of warfare, journalism, imperial expansion, and popular romance. Its most compelling accounts trace Civil War infiltrations, diplomatic intrigue, scouting exploits, and the moral ambiguities of secrecy, revealing how hidden labor shaped public history. The contributors include soldiers, investigators, historians, travel writers, biographers, and literary figures whose perspectives span American conflict, British imperial culture, European diplomacy, and the developing mythology of intelligence work. Their varied backgrounds illuminate the nineteenth century's fascination with heroism, surveillance, national loyalty, and the exceptional individual. Read together, these voices align with the era's flourishing of historical biography and imperial adventure literature while also preserving testimonies that complicate celebratory accounts of covert action. This collection is recommended for readers of military history, biography, espionage literature, and nineteenth-century culture. It offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare documentary recollection with dramatic narration, patriotic legend with ethical uncertainty, and individual testimony with broader historical change. As a single volume, it encourages informed dialogue among diverse traditions of writing about secrecy, courage, and power.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length235 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) (Annotated)
2Hidden Heroes: 20 Riveting Spy Memoirs & Biographies
3Nurse and Spy in the Union Army
4CHAPTER I.
5CHAPTER III.
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6CHAPTER VI.
7CHAPTER IX.
8CHAPTER XII.
9CHAPTER XIV.
10CHAPTER XVII.
11CHAPTER XX.
12CHAPTER XXIII.
13CHAPTER XXVI.
14CHAPTER XXIX.
15Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
16Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
17INTRODUCTION
18PREFACE
19SOME SCENES IN THE LIFE OF HARRIET TUBMAN
20Extracts from a letter written by Mr. Sanborn, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities
21Statements made by Martin I. Townsend, Esq., of Troy, who was counsel for the fugitive, Charles Nalle
22APPENDIX
23ESSAY ON WOMAN-WHIPPING
24Harriet: The Moses of Her People
25PREFACE
26HARRIET, THE MOSES OF HER PEOPLE
27SOME ADDITIONAL INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF "HARRIET"
28APPENDIX
29FUGITIVE SLAVE RESCUE IN TROY
30Journal of Major André
31Journal of Major André
321778
33The Boy Spy
34PREFACE.
35CHAPTER I.
36CHAPTER III.
37CHAPTER VI.
38CHAPTER VIII.
39CHAPTER X.
40CHAPTER XII.
41CHAPTER XIV.
42CHAPTER XVI.
43CHAPTER XVII.
44CHAPTER XIX.
45CHAPTER XXI.
46CHAPTER XXII.
47CHAPTER XXIII.
48CHAPTER XXIV.
49CHAPTER XXVI.
50CHAPTER XXVII.
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