Macintyre: 124 books
by John MacIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
From the number of kilometers of coastline to the stories behind those weird place names (hello Ecum Secum) to profiles of Joe Howe and Alexander Keith, there is no book as comprehensive as the Nova Scotia Book of Everything. There is also no book more fun. Well known Nova Scotians like...
Shishapangma
The alpine-style first ascent of the South-West Face
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
In 1982, following the relaxation of access restrictions to Tibet, six climbers set off for the Himalaya to explore the little-known Shishapangma massif in Tibet. Dealing with a chaotic build-up and bureaucratic obstacles so huge they verged on comical, the mountaineers gained access to Shishapangma's...
El acoso escolar en la infancia
Cómo comprender las cuestiones implicadas y afrontar el problema
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 2, 2013
¿Qué es lo que hace que algunos niños sean acosadores y otros víctimas?, ¿qué puedes hacer si, a pesar de tus mejores esfuerzos, un menor sigue molestando a otro?, ¿qué pasos puedes dar antes de entrar en contacto con los padres y qué les dirás? La práctica del acoso se mantiene en todos...
The Spy and the Traitor
The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“The best true spy story I have ever read.”**—JOHN LE CARRÉ
The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end...
Forgotten Fatherland
The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich’s bigoted, imperious sister, founded a “racially pure” colony in Paraguay together with a band of blonde-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of...
by Jean MacIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
This is a story for children about respecting all life forms, told through the medium of photos and limericks. The story opens with a tree spirit emerging from his home to talk to the children. The animals, worms, and insects tell the rest of the story from their perspective.
Rogue Heroes
The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The incredible untold story of WWII’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue
Britain’s Special Air Service—or SAS—was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic...
by Ben Macintyre
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated— Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces...
by Jean MacIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
This is the story of my journey from stage four cancer (breast and colon tumor) to good health. A colorectal tumor was removed surgically, and I was told to have six weeks of chemotherapy, with radiation in the middle of the course of treatment. I declined, went home, and proceeded to heal myself...
The Only Café
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Scotiabank Giller prize-winner Linden MacIntyre is back with a timely and gripping novel in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father's death--a man who tried but could not forget a troubled past in his native Lebanon.
Pierre Cormier had secrets. Though he married twice, became a...
For Your Eyes Only
Ian Fleming and James Bond
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
'I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories'
One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born and would go on to become one of the most successful, enduring and lucrative creations...
The Man Who Would Be King
The First American in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
The Riveting Account of the American Who Inspired Kipling's Classic Tale and the John Huston Movie
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 in the mountainous wilds of Afghanistan....
The Englishman's Daughter
A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2002
"I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade." Alan Seeger, 1916
In the first days of World War I four soldiers, left behind as the British army retreated through northern France under the first German onslaught, found themselves trapped on the wrong side of the Western...
by Donald Macintyre
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
An eyewitness account of the fight for supremacy at sea during World War II, as told by a man who was in the thick of combat against Nazi Germany.
The Battle of the Atlantic was an unremitting assault by enemy boats and aircraft against Allied merchant ships that were the lifeline of Great...