The Real Double Life of a Spy - 20 Memoirs & Biographies of Extraordinary Historical Figures
Twenty True Tales of Espionage, Disguise, and Wartime CourageBy S. Emma E. Edmonds, Sarah H. Bradford, Jean Christie Root, William J. Fitz-Patrick, Charlotte Biggs, William Minto, Allan Pinkerton, Anonymous, John André, Andrew Lang, Robert 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 15m
About this audiobook
This capacious anthology charts espionage as lived experience, historical record, and popular legend. Its twenty memoirs and biographical sketches move across military intelligence, clandestine travel, counterespionage, disguise, interrogation, and political intrigue, combining firsthand testimony with Victorian and early modern biographical narration. Civil War adventures, accounts of revolutionary loyalties, and reflections on the professionalization of secret service emerge as especially compelling strands. The collection's varied registers—confessional, documentary, sensational, patriotic, and analytical—show how the spy's "double life" unsettles the boundary between public history and private identity. The contributors include soldiers, journalists, historians, intelligence professionals, travel writers, and literary figures whose perspectives were shaped by nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century imperial, national, and military cultures. Their writings participate in the development of modern espionage literature, while also preserving competing ideals of duty, deception, gender, empire, and heroism. Read together, these voices reveal how biography and memoir transformed covert action into a subject of both historical inquiry and popular fascination. Recommended for students of military history, intelligence studies, biography, and adventure writing, this volume offers an unusually broad encounter with espionage's human dimensions. It invites readers to compare styles and assumptions across eras, and to trace the productive dialogue between testimony, legend, and historical interpretation.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, History
Length235 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Abraham Lincoln – The True Story of a Great Life (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
2The Real Double Life of a Spy - 20 Memoirs & Biographies of Extraordinary Historical Figures
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
30Nathan Hale
31CHAPTER I
32CHAPTER IV
33CHAPTER VII
34CHAPTER X
35Secret Service Under Pitt
36PREFACE
37CHAPTER I A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
38CHAPTER II ARRESTS MULTIPLY
39CHAPTER III FATHER O'COIGLY HANGED
40CHAPTER IV THE BETRAYER'S INTERVIEW WITH TALLEYRAND
41CHAPTER V LORD CLONCURRY SHADOWED
42CHAPTER VI THE MASK TORN OFF AT LAST
43CHAPTER VII DR. MACNEVIN'S MEMORIAL INTERCEPTED
44CHAPTER VIII GENERAL NAPPER TANDY
45CHAPTER IX ARREST OF JÄGERHORN IN LONDON—THE PLOT THICKENS—TURNER SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD
46CHAPTER X EFFORTS TO EXCITE MUTINY IN THE ENGLISH FLEET
47CHAPTER XI THE BETRAYER OF LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD[284]
48CHAPTER XII WILLIAM TODD JONES. EMMET'S REBELLION
49CHAPTER XIII THOMAS COLLINS. PHILLIPS THE SACERDOTAL SPY
50CHAPTER XIV LEONARD MCNALLY
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