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El Cid
Par Victor G. Ambrus, Geraldine McCaughrean. 1989
Recounts the feats and adventures of the legendary medieval Spanish hero El Cid--from his banishment from court to his battles…
with the Moors in southern Spain to his capture of the stronghold of Valencia and his last journey. For grades 5-8. 1989The boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Mallory's history of King Arthur and his knights of the round table (Illustrated Classics Ser.)
Par Thomas Malory, N. C. Wyeth, Sidney Lanier, N. C. Wyeth. 1952
Contains tales of chivalry, combat, honor, tournaments, the Holy Grail, and the death of King Arthur. Featuring Arthur, Launcelot, Tristram,…
Gareth, Galahad, Percival, and the other legendary members of the Round Table. For grades 5-8. 1880Nine Lives: My Time As MI6's Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda
Par Paul Cruickshank, Tim Lister, Aimen Dean. 2019
As one of al-Qaeda&’s most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore…
allegiance to Osama bin Laden. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda&’s chemical weapons programme, he foiled attacks on civilians and saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy with nine lives. This is the story of how a young Muslim, determined to defend his faith, found himself fighting on the wrong side – and his fateful decision to work undercover for his sworn enemy. From the killing fields of Bosnia to the training camps of Afghanistan, from running money and equipment in Britain to dodging barrel bombs in Syria, we discover what life is like inside the global jihad, and what it will take to stop it once and for all.Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies
Par Mark Hollingsworth. 2023
There&’s no such thing as a former KGB man. Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency…
gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politics on a near-inconceivable scale. In 1985, 1,300 KGB officers were stationed in the USA. The FBI only had 350 counter-intelligence officers. Since the early days of the Cold War, the KGB seduced parliamentarians and diplomats, infiltrated the highest echelons of the Civil Service, and planted fake news in papers across the world. More disturbingly, it never stopped. Putin is a KGB man through and through. Journalist Mark Hollingworth reveals how disinformation, kompromat and secret surveillance continue to play key roles in Russia&’s war with Ukraine. It seems frighteningly easy to destabilise Western democracy.