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The invisible spy : Churchill's Rockefeller Center spy ring and America's first secret agent of World War II / by Maier, Thomas,1956-author.;

As a tough but smart Italian American kid, Ernest Cuneo played Ivy League football at Columbia University and was in the old Brooklyn Dodgers NFL franchise before becoming a City Hall lawyer and "Brain Trust'' aide to President Roosevelt. He was on the payroll of national radio columnist Walter Winchell and mingled with the famous and powerful. But his status as a spy remained a secret, hiding in plain sight. During this time, Cuneo began a love affair with one of Churchill's agents at Rockefeller Center, Margaret Watson, a beautiful Canadian woman with a photographic memory ideal for spycraft. In one nighttime attack, Watson was nearly smothered to death by a Nazi assassin inside her women's dormitory near Rockfeller Center. Cuneo's transformation from a gridiron athlete into a high-stakes intelligence go-between and political influencer is one of the great untold stories of American espionage. He has remained "invisible" in the public eye, until now, with this unveiled look into his life. Thomas Maier weaves Cuneo's remarkable personal story with the vivid and insightful portraits of many top figures in his world. Full of action and fascinating characters, this untold history shows how the British launched a far-ranging covert campaign against Nazi conspirators hidden in America, a spy war unbeknown to many.

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965; Cuneo, Ernest L., 1905-1988.; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972; Great Britain. MI6; United States. Office of Strategic Services; Espionage, American; Intelligence officers; Spies; Undercover operations; World War, 1939-1945;

Sunrise Highway [sound recording] / by Blauner, Peter,author.; Fliakos, Ari,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;

Read by Ari Fliakos."From Peter Blauner, the writer Dennis Lehane calls "one of the most consistently bracing and interesting voices in American crime literature," comes a new thriller about a lone young cop on the trail of a powerful killer determined not just to stop her, but to make her pay. In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible that his actions actually enabled a killer. That's when Lourdes Robles, a relentless young Latina detective for the NYPD, steps in to track the serial killer. She discovers a deep and sinister web of connections between the victims and some of the most powerful political figures in the region, including JT himself. Now Lourdes not only has to catch a killer, but maybe dismantle an entire system that's protected him, possibly at the cost of her own life"--

Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Women detectives; Murder;

The good fight. [videorecording] / by Baranski, Christine,television producer,actor.; Brady, Wayne,1972-actor.; Kennedy, Brooke,television director.; McDonald, Audra,actor.; Nyambi, Nyambi,actor.; Patinkin, Mandy,actor.; Steele, Sarah,1988-actor.; Sykes, Wanda,1964-actor.; Trim, Michael(Television director),television director.; CBS Television Network,broadcaster.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;

Christine Baranski, Sarah Steele, Nyambi Nyambi, Mandy Patinkin, Audra Mcdonald, Wanda Sykes, Wayne Brady.Originally broadcast on television in 2021.In the sixth and final season of The Good Fight, Diane (Emmy Award winner Christine Baranski) feels like she's going crazy, struggling with an uneasy sense of déjà vu, with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, to voting rights, to Cold War aggressions returning. Meanwhile, the lawyers of Reddick and Associates wonder if the violence that they see all around them points to an impending civil war. Also starring John Slattery, Andre Braugher, Sarah Steele, Michael Boatman, Nyambi Nyambi and Charmaine Bingwa and featuring guest appearances from Alan Cumming, Carrie Preston, Gary Cole and Phylicia Rashad.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Legal television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Law firms; Lawyers; Women lawyers;

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Hazard / by Dowell, Frances O'Roark.;

Told in a series of reports to his therapist, Hazard is resentful about being forced into counseling after being suspended from his school football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, angry that his father has served four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, angry that his father has lost a leg when an IED blew up--but as his therapy progresses he begins to process what has happened to him and his family, including his father's psychological trauma that has made him refuse to see his sons.Ages 9-13.LSC

Subjects: Novels in verse.; Families of military personnel; Fathers and sons; Anger; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Psychoanalytic counseling; Amputees; Afghan War, 2001-;

Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II / by Kershaw, Alex,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II-all Medal of Honor recipients-from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress. As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice "Footsie" Britt, a former professional football player, became the very first American to receive every award for valor in a single war. Michael Daly was a West Point dropout who risked his neck over and over to keep his men alive. Keith Ware would one day become the first and only draftee in history to attain the rank of general before serving in Vietnam. In WWII, Ware owed his life to the finest soldier he ever commanded, a baby-faced Texan named Audie Murphy. In the campaign to liberate Europe, each would gain the ultimate accolade, the Congressional Medal of Honor. Tapping into personal interviews and a wealth of primary source material, Alex Kershaw has delivered his most gripping account yet of American courage, spanning more than six hundred days of increasingly merciless combat, from the deserts of North Africa to the dark heart of Nazi Germany. Once the guns fell silent, these four exceptional warriors would discover just how heavy the Medal of Honor could be-and how great the expectations associated with it. Having survived against all odds, who among them would finally find peace?"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 30th (1901-1957); Medal of Honor; Soldiers; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

The keeper [videorecording] / by Baumann, Gerd,1967-composer (expression); Berner, Alexander,1966-editor of moving image work.; Curling, Chris,film producer.; Gottschalk, Daniel,director of photography.; Henshaw, John,1951-actor.; Kross, David,1990-actor.; Marciniak, Robert,film producer.; Mavor, Freya,actor.; Melling, Harry,1989-actor.; Milne, Steve,film producer.; Rosenmüller, Marcus H.,1973-screenwriter,film director.; Schofield, Nicholas J.,screenwriter.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,film distributor.; Lieblingsfilm (Firm),production company.; Menemsha Films,publisher.; Zephyr Films,production company.;

Director of photography, Daniel Gottschalk ; editor, Alexander Berners ; music, Gerd Baumann.David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw, Harry Melling, Michael Socha, Dave Johns, Barbara Young, Chloe Harris, Mikey Collins.When a German POW is signed to the Manchester football club as a goalie, the public outcry from fans -- especially Jews -- is overwhelming. With the support of Rabbi Alexander Altmann and the British woman he loves, together they overcome prejudice, public hostility, and personal tragedy.PG.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.

Subjects: Motion pictures, German.; Foreign films.; Romance films.; Feature films.; Biographical films.; Trautmann, Bert, 1923-2013; Manchester City Football Club; Man-woman relationships; Prisoners of war; Soccer goalkeepers;

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