Degrees of Intelligence: A Geopolitical Thriller of WWII and the Cold War Inspired By a True Story
A Gripping New Historical Fiction Geopolitical Thriller of WWII and the Cold War: It's 1943 ... World War II is raging across the pond ... and a shy but brilliant
Jewish-American young man-whose own father grew up on the mean streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side-finds himself at Harvard ... with no clue how he got in. Miranda Armstadt's new historical fiction geopolitical thriller-inspired by her own father's time with the US State Department in 1950s Cold War Europe-takes readers behind the scenes of the early years of the CIA and how it unfolded into a powerful government arm,
as America pushed back against Communism after the war. Along the way, we meet the beautiful daughter of a TV news pioneer, caught up in a web of deceit her own family doesn't know about ... a dashing British viscount who steps out of the world of wealth and prestige in which he was raised ... and a teenage Holocaust survivor who's determined to succeed, despite losing his entire family to the Nazis. Five years in the making, Armstadt has used volumes of family letters and photographs-
and researched hundreds of CIA, State Department, and government and military memos-
to create a fascinating story about how high-level intelligence operatives were scouted, trained and used to glean information in a world before computers. With incredible insight into the real life of a Foreign Service officer, Armstadt weaves a vivid tableau of America and Britain's intelligence operations from World War II through to the Kennedy administration of the 1960s and their aftermath-and how a life of secrecy affects everyone it touches.
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Jewish-American young man-whose own father grew up on the mean streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side-finds himself at Harvard ... with no clue how he got in. Miranda Armstadt's new historical fiction geopolitical thriller-inspired by her own father's time with the US State Department in 1950s Cold War Europe-takes readers behind the scenes of the early years of the CIA and how it unfolded into a powerful government arm,
as America pushed back against Communism after the war. Along the way, we meet the beautiful daughter of a TV news pioneer, caught up in a web of deceit her own family doesn't know about ... a dashing British viscount who steps out of the world of wealth and prestige in which he was raised ... and a teenage Holocaust survivor who's determined to succeed, despite losing his entire family to the Nazis. Five years in the making, Armstadt has used volumes of family letters and photographs-
and researched hundreds of CIA, State Department, and government and military memos-
to create a fascinating story about how high-level intelligence operatives were scouted, trained and used to glean information in a world before computers. With incredible insight into the real life of a Foreign Service officer, Armstadt weaves a vivid tableau of America and Britain's intelligence operations from World War II through to the Kennedy administration of the 1960s and their aftermath-and how a life of secrecy affects everyone it touches.
Degrees of Intelligence: A Geopolitical Thriller of WWII and the Cold War Inspired By a True Story
A Gripping New Historical Fiction Geopolitical Thriller of WWII and the Cold War: It's 1943 ... World War II is raging across the pond ... and a shy but brilliant
Jewish-American young man-whose own father grew up on the mean streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side-finds himself at Harvard ... with no clue how he got in. Miranda Armstadt's new historical fiction geopolitical thriller-inspired by her own father's time with the US State Department in 1950s Cold War Europe-takes readers behind the scenes of the early years of the CIA and how it unfolded into a powerful government arm,
as America pushed back against Communism after the war. Along the way, we meet the beautiful daughter of a TV news pioneer, caught up in a web of deceit her own family doesn't know about ... a dashing British viscount who steps out of the world of wealth and prestige in which he was raised ... and a teenage Holocaust survivor who's determined to succeed, despite losing his entire family to the Nazis. Five years in the making, Armstadt has used volumes of family letters and photographs-
and researched hundreds of CIA, State Department, and government and military memos-
to create a fascinating story about how high-level intelligence operatives were scouted, trained and used to glean information in a world before computers. With incredible insight into the real life of a Foreign Service officer, Armstadt weaves a vivid tableau of America and Britain's intelligence operations from World War II through to the Kennedy administration of the 1960s and their aftermath-and how a life of secrecy affects everyone it touches.
Jewish-American young man-whose own father grew up on the mean streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side-finds himself at Harvard ... with no clue how he got in. Miranda Armstadt's new historical fiction geopolitical thriller-inspired by her own father's time with the US State Department in 1950s Cold War Europe-takes readers behind the scenes of the early years of the CIA and how it unfolded into a powerful government arm,
as America pushed back against Communism after the war. Along the way, we meet the beautiful daughter of a TV news pioneer, caught up in a web of deceit her own family doesn't know about ... a dashing British viscount who steps out of the world of wealth and prestige in which he was raised ... and a teenage Holocaust survivor who's determined to succeed, despite losing his entire family to the Nazis. Five years in the making, Armstadt has used volumes of family letters and photographs-
and researched hundreds of CIA, State Department, and government and military memos-
to create a fascinating story about how high-level intelligence operatives were scouted, trained and used to glean information in a world before computers. With incredible insight into the real life of a Foreign Service officer, Armstadt weaves a vivid tableau of America and Britain's intelligence operations from World War II through to the Kennedy administration of the 1960s and their aftermath-and how a life of secrecy affects everyone it touches.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798341875371 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 02/24/2025 |
| Pages: | 350 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d) |
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