George Washington's secret spy war : the making of America's first spymaster
(2016)
By:
Nagy, John A.
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.385/NAGY,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
viii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781250096814, 1250096812 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
French lessons -- Drinking, flashing the ladies, and grave robbing -- Desperate times -- Pools of blood -- Quaker chicanery -- We danced the minuet -- Double agents -- Traitors and licensed spies -- Black chambers and the medicine factory -- Petite guerre -- Deception battle plan: the objective -- Deception battle plan: enemy assumptions -- Deception battle plan: method -- Deception battle plan: the sting-executing the plan -- Deception battle plan: exploitation -- Conclusion