Melisende's Library

Synopsis: The thrilling biography of Robert Bruce Lockhart, Britain's 'Agent' in Moscow Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970) w...

She was stunning. She was ruthless. She was brilliant and had a will of iron. Born Vera Maria Rosenberg in Bucharest, she became Vera Atkins...

Synopsis: In his seminal work, The Concentration Camp Brothel , Robert Sommer reveals the hidden horrors of sexual forced labor within the ...

Synopsis: As the Nazis roll into Warsaw, a serial killer is unleashed… September 1939. A city ruled by fear. A population brutalized by res...

Synopsis:   The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Pola...

Taken from the CRA Newsletter : Layers of Research by Chris Lloyd There is only one rabbit hole that is deeper and more relentless than res...

Synsopsis: Set in Mussolini’s Italy amid great upheaval, this is the story of one woman’s determination to find her place in a world that m...

The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen...

Synopsis: When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she would go on to live “a life of gla...

Synopsis:   Private investigator Bacci Pagano can’t resist taking the bait when his new client dangles a check with too many zeros. He shoul...

Synopsis: 1939. The storm clouds of war are gathering over Europe and the conundrum faced is whether the Soviet Union will reach a peace co...

From Princeton Alumni Weekly For years, accounts of the Nuremberg Trials have relied on an America-centric view and have ignored the ways...

Synopsis: Josephine Baker is born into poverty in racially segregated America. Desperate to escape she flees to France where she embraces ...

Synopsis: The women of the Third Reich were a vital part in a complex and vilified system. What was their role within its administration, ...

I have lately read two compelling books on two very different, and yet very similar, women who voluntarily entered into military service f...

Synopsis:    Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities followin...

Synopsis: Why do people put their lives at risk to collect intelligence? How do intelligence services ensure that the agents they recrui...

Ada Gobetti's Partisan Diary is both diary and memoir. From the German entry into Turin on 10 September 1943 to the liberation of the ...

Like the author, I too was familiar with this story through watching the movie (one, I am unashamed to say, I watch repeatedly - how I do ...

Author John Heminway discusses his latest book on History News Network : In Full Flight raises questions that, for me, will linger foreve...