David Downing
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English
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"Spring 1915. As the Great War burns its way across Europe, Jack McColl, a spy for His Majesty's Navy, is stationed in India, charged with defending the Empire against Bengali terrorists and their German allies. In England, meanwhile, suffragette journalist Caitlin Hanley begins the business of rebuilding her life after the execution of her brother, an Irish republican sympathizer whose plot Jack McColl--Caitlin's ex-lover--had foiled. The war is...
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"It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city--Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York--he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing...
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Jack McColl novels volume 3
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English
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"Autumn 1917: As a generation of Europe's young men perish on the Eastern and Western fronts, British spy Jack McColl is assigned a sabotage mission deep in the heart of Central Asia, where German influence is strong and where he'll be in completely unfamiliar territory. Despite his uncanny ear for foreign languages, there is much he doesn't know about the cities he is to infiltrate, or the people he is to meet there. As he quickly realizes, the mission...
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John Russell series volume 1
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English
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When an American journalist living in 1939 Germany agrees to write articles for the Soviets, he gets dragged into dangerous activities and is sought by warring factions when British and Nazi intelligence discover his actions.
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English
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"In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter finds is a scathing chronicle of one the most tumultuous...
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English
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"In the fourth and final installment of David Downing's spy series, Jack McColl is sent to Soviet Russia, where the civil war is coming to an end. The Bolsheviks have won but the country is in ruins. With the hopes engendered by the revolution hanging by a thread, plots and betrayals abound. London, 1921: Ex₆Secret Service spy Jack McColl is in prison serving time for assaulting a cop. McColl has been embittered by the Great War; he feels betrayed...
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John Russell series volume 4
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English
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In April 1945, Hitler’s Reich is on the verge of extinction. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous place on earth.
John Russell’s son Paul is stationed on the Eastern Front with the German Army, awaiting the Soviets’ final onslaught. In Berlin, Russell’s girlfriend Effi has been living in disguise, helping fugitives to escape from...
John Russell’s son Paul is stationed on the Eastern Front with the German Army, awaiting the Soviets’ final onslaught. In Berlin, Russell’s girlfriend Effi has been living in disguise, helping fugitives to escape from...
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John Russell series volume 3
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English
Description
"In the fall of 1941, Anglo-American journalist John Russell is still living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his fourteen-year-old son Paul and his longtime girlfriend Effi. Forced to work for both German and American intelligence, he's searching for a way out of Germany. Can he escape and take Effi with him?" -- Back cover.
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John Russell series volume 6
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English
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Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties--a paradise for spies. Meanwhile, Berlin's German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviet forces who occupy half the city. John Russell works for both Stalin's NKVD and the newly created CIA,...
10) Silesian station
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John Russell series volume 2
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English
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In Berlin in 1939, British journalist John Russell gets involved in multiple intrigues while working as an amateur spy for the intelligence services of assorted major powers. When Miriam Rosenfeld, a young Jewish woman dispatched from provincial Silesia by her Uncle Thomas, who's Russell's ex-brother-in-law, fails to arrive in Berlin, Thomas asks Russell to help find her.
11) Lehrter station
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John Russell series volume 5
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English
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"Paris, November 1945. John Russell is walking home along the banks of the Seine on a cold and misty evening when Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin tells Russell that the American intelligence will soon be asking him to undertake some low grade espionage on their behalf--assessing the strains between different sections of the German Communist Party--and that Shchepkin's own bosses in Moscow want him to accept...
12) The red eagles
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English
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The Red Eagles traces the adventures of two spies as they track down the most deadly force in the world while hiding their true intentions from their compatriots. They are the "red" eagles,sent to America to steal the greatest secret of all: the key to producing the atomic bomb.
13) Wedding station
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English
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"Germany, 1933. The world is not yet at war, but the influence of the Nazi party is spreading like wildfire through Berlin. The prequel to the bestselling Station series introduces us to John Russell, an Englishman with a political past who must keep his head down as the Nazis solidify their power. The Reichstag parliament building has burned down, just four weeks after Hitler's appointment as German Chancellor. The torching will be used to justify...
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[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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In this book, significant events that helped shape the War of Terror are explored, including Al-Qaeda's declaration of war, 9/11, the arrival of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and the Madrid bombings.
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[2001]
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English
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Examines events that led up to the Great Depression, looks at conditions during the economic slump, and examines the efforts of President Roosevelt to improve the lives of Americans following the disaster. Includes photographs, primary source materials, and information about what was happening in other parts of the world.
17) Communism
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[2003]
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English
Description
Introduces the key characteristics and proponents of communism, tracing its development from its origins to the twenty-first century, and looking at how communism affects the lives of people who live under the system.
18) Joseph Stalin
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Series
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[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
Description
Offers a brief biography of Joseph Stalin, exploring the events, the background, the people, and the mixture of private and public concerns which contributed to his historical impact.
19) Capitalism
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[2003]
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1240L
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English
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Introduces the key characteristics and proponents of capitalism, tracing its development from its origins to the twenty-first century, and looking at how capitalism affects the lives of people who live under the system.
20) Democracy
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[2003]
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English
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Introduces the key characteristics and proponents of democracy, tracing its development from its origins to the twenty-first century, and looking at how democracy affects the lives of people who live under the system.