Peter Duffy, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-621074-2
This is a story about heroes, and Duffy does a masterful job of telling it. The narrative begins on a farm in Stankevich, a village in what is now Belarus. After witnessing the brutal execution of their parents by Nazi soldiers, the three Bielski...
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Peter Duffy, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-084050-1
In a fading November light in 1847, the most desperate year in Irish history, an Anglo-Irish landlord named Denis Mahon—whose ancestral family demesne in County Roscommon tenanted 12,000 poor and mostly starving people—was shot and...
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Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring
Peter Duffy. Scribner, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-6795-0
Journalist Duffy (The Killing of Major Denis Mahon) recounts the first U.S. counterespionage success of WWII: the breaking of a German spy ring centered in New York. It combined “ideologues, opportunists, dupes, adventurers” and a core of agents who
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Peter Duffy. PublicAffairs, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5417-6231-2
In this well-told history, journalist Duffy (Double Agent) recounts a little-known incident of American protest against the Third Reich. In July 1935, a small group of Communist Party members and fellow travelers, led by a young merchant seaman...
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