
Spies!
Sneaks, Snoops, and Saboteurs Who Shaped the World (Rivals!, Book 4)
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Scott McCormick
About this listen
Exclusively on Audible, hilarious history for ages eight and up.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Listen to the hilarious-but-true adventures of the world’s most amazing spies, document their actions, and most importantly: Do not let the enemy see you laugh.
Here are the dossiers:
- Hercules Mulligan: Sure he sings about horses and corsets in a certain musical, but in real life he spied under the noses of the British for the entirety of the Revolutionary War - even when they were convinced he was a spy.
- Josephine Baker used her fame as a singer and dancer to smuggle hundreds of documents past the Nazis and helped numerous Jewish refugees escape Europe.
- Elizabeth Van Lew operated the largest spy ring for the Union forces - right in the heart of the Confederate capital.
- The Chevalier d’Eon: This 18th-century French diplomat, soldier, and spy became an international celebrity when she announced that she was a woman who had been forced to masquerade as a man - or was the other way around?
Spies! has it all: secret turnips, infiltrating pigeons, encrypted clothing, milk messages, prison breaks, snooping kitties, grave robbing, hanging monkeys, bumbling Brits, and even original songs.
So grab your miniature cameras and memorize your maps, Spies!: Sneaks, Snoops, and Saboteurs Who Shaped the World will steal its way to your funny bone.
©2021 Scott McCormick (P)2022 Audible Originals
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2 examples of 'the message':
1. Constantly making out men to be evil and idiotic while all women are, if not perfect angels, then highly intelligent and blameless ones. If the woman were so amazing then they should be able to proudly stand on their own deeds, not require the men to be knocked down around them.
2. Deciding that the French spy must be transgender when the only evidence given in the story says that he bought a few dresses as presents and wore a dress to a Russian cross-dressing party (as did all the other men). Otherwise, according to this very audiobook, he never once said he was a woman, didn't want to live like one, but was forced to. Society at the time may have questioned his sex but apparently the readers aren't allowed the same liberty!
Don't present as certain historical fact that which is clearly, by the evidence laid out in the book, not. Making educated guesses is one thing, but making unfounded claims based upon clear ideological biases, has no place in a book that insists it's doing its best to present an accurate recount.
Great premise but too ideological to be called history (or even historical fiction)
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