Books by Ben Macintyre

From the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag. The thrilling true story of the greatest and most successful wartime deception ever attemptedA Richard & Judy Book Club selection

The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan.In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush and declared himself Prince of Ghor, the heir to Alexander the Great.Josiah Harlan, the first American to set foot in Afghanistan, would become the model for Kipling's 'The Man Who Would be King', but the true story of his life is stranger than fiction. A soldier, spy, doctor, naturalist and writer, Harlan set off into the wilds of Central Asia after a failed love affair in 1820. Following a brief stint as a surgeon in the East India Company's army, he joined the court of the deposed Afghan monarch Shah Shujah, and then slipped into Kabul disguised as a Muslim priest to foment rebellion. For the next two decades he would play a pivotal role in the bloody politics of the region.Using a trove of newly discovered documents, including Harlan's long-lost journals, Ben Macintyre has followed Harlan's footsteps to uncover an astonishing, untold chapter in the history of the Great Game. If you enjoyed William Dalrymple's 'Return of a King', 'Josiah the Great' should be on your reading list.

En frostklar vinterdag i januar 1966 lander en ung russisk diplomat og hans kone i København. Mandens navn er Oleg Gordijevskij, og officielt er han ansat ved den sovjetiske ambassade. Men i virkeligheden er han KGB-officer, toptrænet i spionage mod vesten.Sådan begynder et ekstraordinært kapitel af spionagens historie. Opholdet i Danmark og mødet med vestlig kultur sætter et ideologisk skred i gang i Gordijevskij, som ender med at “hoppe af” til vesten. I mere end et årti viderebringer han hemmelighederfra hjertet af den sovjetiske efterretningstjeneste til britiske MI6- agenter i København og London. Oplysninger, der bidrager til atafværge atomkrig og ændrer den kolde krigs gang.I Spionen og forræderen fører britiske Ben Macintyre læseren ind i en verden af bedrag og forræderi, hemmelige dokumenter og skjulte signaler. Det er en utrolig, men sandfærdig historie om en enkelt mands store indsats på et kritisk tidspunkt i verdenshistorien.

'Startling, dark and absorbing' Independent'Excellent travel writing: vivid, sympathetic, humorous' Guardian'Fascinating, provocative and highly eccentric' New York Times_______________________In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, the philosopher Friedrich's bigoted, imperious sister, founded a 'racially pure' colony in Paraguay together with a band of blond-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later, Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of Nueva Germania to discover the remains of this bizarre colony. Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous adventure locating the survivors, while also tracing the colorful history of Elisabeth's return to Europe, where she inspired the mythical cult of her brother's philosophy and later became a mentor to Hitler. Brilliantly researched and mordantly funny, this is an illuminating portrait of a forgotten people and of a woman whose deep influence on the twentieth century can only now be fully understood.

A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zig-Zag'.

Enables you to learn the advantages of having your own signature word. This title shows why the lifts in the House of Commons have posh accents. It also lets you discover the discreet art of the loophemism.

The official book on Ian Fleming and James Bond by the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag

D-Dag var vendepunktet under Anden Verdenskrig. Med landgangen i Normandiet bed de allierede tropper sig fast i det europæiske fastland. Det blev begyndelsen til enden på Det Tredje Rige.Men sejren blev ikke vundet med kanoner alene. I ugerne op til invasionen startede de Allierede en vildledningskampagne, der skulle føre tyskernes opmærksomhed væk fra Normandiet.Dobbeltspil er fortællingen om de fem agenter, der med fantasi og mod, forræderi og grådighed førte Hitler bag lyset og Europa mod friheden.Ben Macintyre (f. 1963) er engelsk forfatter, historiker og klummeskribent ved The Times. Han har skrevet en lang række bestsellere om spionage og kontraspionage under Anden Verdenskrig.