Michael Bar-Zohar

The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. This book unveils the defining and most dangerous operations that have shaped Israel and the world at large from the agency's more than sixty-year history, among them: the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the eradication of Black September, the destruction of the Syrian nuclear facility, and the elimination of key Iranian...

Tells the story of Paul Fackenheim, a Jewish prisoner at Dachau, who was released on condition that he spy for Nazi Germany in Palestine.

Chronicles the actions of "public and private individuals ... who independently risked their lives for the rights of others" and earned Bulgaria the distinction of being "the only Axis-aligned country not to deport its Jews." Despite the formation of a pro-Nazi government and their own version of the Nuremberg laws, "not one Bulgarian Jew ever left the country."--Jacket.

"The CIA discovers a Russian plot to assassinate five Soviet dissidents on Christmas Day, but they do not know who they are. Alex Holbeck is recruited in Paris by CIA and sent to E. Berlin to steal Enigma, the machine used by Soviet intelligence for communication. On the arrival, Holbeck discovers that the KGB and the East Germany government know that he has arrived and his contacts are arrested." --