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  • In Passing

    by Matthew Nichols ...
    Some journeys don’t lead forward—they lead inward.An emotionally burdened writer finds himself cast into a nostalgic and somewhat surreal landscape where memory contorts. What begins as confusion soon reveals itself as something far deeper: a passage through the defining moments of his life.Guided by fragments of his past—childhood friendships, fractured family ties, lost love, and the quiet ... Read more

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  • The Plane That Broke the Lie : Strange, Shocking, and Overlooked True Stories from Iran-Contra’s Illegal Financing, Covert Airlifts, and Shadow Networks

    by Matthew Nichols ...
    The plane fell out of a bright Nicaraguan sky on October 5, 1986, and for a few moments the whole machinery of Iran-Contra became visible at once. Nicaraguan soldiers shot down an American cargo plane carrying military supplies to the contra forces. One crewman, Eugene Hasenfus, survived. In captivity, he said he had been working for the CIA. Within days, the story widened: Hasenfus publicly ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Guard Who Broke Ranks : Thomas Hickey, John Jay, and the Documented 1776 Plot Against George Washington

    by Matthew Nichols ...
    A traitor inside George Washington's personal guard. A wartime investigation led by John Jay. A city divided between revolution and loyalty to the Crown.In June 1776, as British forces prepared to strike New York, authorities uncovered a suspected network of Loyalist recruiters, counterfeiters, political operatives, and soldiers willing to turn against the American cause. At the center stood ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Rotor ; Bletchley Park, Enigma M4, and the German Navy’s Fatal Assumptions

    by Matthew Nichols ...
    On February 1, 1942, the Atlantic went dark.German U-boats had begun using Enigma M4, a strengthened naval cipher machine fitted with a fourth rotor. At Bletchley Park, the principal Atlantic U-boat network, known to Germany as Triton and to British cryptanalysts as Shark, suddenly became unreadable.For ten critical months, the German Navy directed its submarine campaign through a communications ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Banned to Beloved: True Stories Behind the Making of American Christmas

    by Matthew Nichols ...
    Christmas in America was not born fully formed. It was argued over, prohibited, reinvented, advertised—and eventually transformed into tradition.In colonial New England, celebrating Christmas could cost you a fine.Two centuries later, department stores were turning the holiday into a spectacle, electric lights were glowing on Christmas trees, advertisers were reshaping Santa Claus, and a ... Read more

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  • The Manhattan Inferno: Arson, Espionage, and the Night New York Burned During the American Revolution

    by Matthew Nichols ...
    On the night of September 21, 1776, New York City erupted in flames.Only days after George Washington's army abandoned Manhattan and British forces occupied the city, a massive fire tore through lower New York. Hundreds of buildings vanished into smoke and ash. Churches collapsed. Homes disappeared. Warehouses burned. Panic swept through streets already fractured by war.But the most important ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Roll Up , How the KGB Used Aldrich Ames to Break America’s Soviet Network.

    by Matthew Nichols ...
    Most retellings of the Aldrich Ames disaster focus on the shock in Langley. The cash, the missed warning signs, the sheer audacity of the betrayal. But honestly? That's looking through the wrong end of the telescope.The Roll Up steps to the other side of the glass. It strips away the cinematic spy mythology to show you the cold, bureaucratic reality of how the KGB actually handled the greatest ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE PHANTOM COMPANY: True Stories of Spies, Smugglers, Propaganda, and the Secret Deals Behind American Independence

    by Matthew Nichols ...
    The American Revolution was fought on battlefields.But it was also fought in cargo holds, printing shops, back rooms, codebooks, taverns, diplomatic offices, and across an Atlantic thick with money, weapons, secrets, and lies.Behind the familiar story of American independence was another revolution—one driven by smugglers challenging British customs law, printers turning bloodshed into propaganda, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unwitting Dose:Sidney Gottlieb, the Technical Services Staff, and the CIA’s Secret LSD Trials.

    by Matthew Nichols ...
    "The danger did not arrive as disorder. It arrived as method."In April 1953, the CIA approved a project so sensitive that normal government audits were set aside. This was the birth of MKULTRA. While the public imagination focuses on "psychedelic fog," The Unwitting Dose reveals the cold, administrative reality: a bureaucracy that learned to treat unwitting citizens as terrain for chemical testing ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE DEAD MAN WHO INVADED SICILY:Ghost Armies, Phantom Fleets, Rubber Tanks, and Other True Stories of Military Deception

    by Matthew Nichols ...
    The Dead Man Who Invaded Sicily is a riveting work of military deception and hidden history that reveals how armies win by shaping what the enemy believes. From Operation Mincemeat to the Ghost Army, from Patton's phantom army to Soviet WWII deception, this book follows the true stories of war's second battlefield: the mind of the opponent.A dead man carrying false papers. Inflatable tanks. ... Read more

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  • THE FEAST BUILT ON GRAVES, Ten True Investigations into Survival, Native Diplomacy, Colonial Violence, and the Making of Thanksgiving

    by Matthew Nichols ...
    The Thanksgiving story most Americans learned begins with a feast.The surviving record begins with kidnapping, stolen corn, armed diplomacy, disease, war—and a country that spent centuries rewriting what came next.In 1614, an English captain abducted Tisquantum—later known as Squanto—and carried him across the Atlantic. Six years later, starving Mayflower colonists dug Native corn from buried ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE CITY BUILT FOR THE BOMB , Secret Underground Cities, Hidden Tunnels, and the True Stories Beneath the Modern World

    by Matthew Nichols ...
    Some cities were built to impress. Others were built to survive.Beneath the familiar streets of the modern world exists another landscape, one carved through stone, excavated beneath neighborhoods, and concealed behind doors most people pass without noticing.These underground spaces were not created merely as curiosities.They were answers to fear.In The City Built for the Bomb, historian and ... Read more

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