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Betrayed by his own adviser Phanes, Egypt falls to Cambyses II of Persia — until a real omen, the birth of the Apis bull...

With an Egyptian plan Themistocles wins at Marathon, a revolt in Egypt buys Greece time to unite, and Alexander the Grea...

In 1365 the Cypriot king Pierre de Lusignan sacked Alexandria by surprise; Egypt's Mamluk sultan Barsbay later took his...

Selim I used treachery to bring down the Mamluks, while Sheikh Hammam and later Ibrahim Pasha rose against Ottoman rule;...

Ibrahim Pasha turns an Ottoman ambush in the Belen passes into a rout with a counter-intelligence masterstroke, then mar...

After crushing the Ottomans at Nizip, Egypt's intelligence machine meets its match: Sarah Aaronsohn's Nili network feeds...

Richard Sorge's Ramzay network warns Stalin of Operation Barbarossa and that Japan will not fight — warnings ignored unt...

A drunken Churchill blurted out the Sicily plan, so British intelligence faked a drowned officer carrying secret papers...

Harold Cole betrayed the French Resistance to the Gestapo, then played Nazis, Britons and Soviets against one another. E...

Duško Popov, the Serbian playboy who inspired James Bond, fed the Nazis fake secrets and helped bait Japan into striking...

A freelance spy named Garbo fooled the Nazis with a network of 27 agents who never existed, while his team prepared the...

Buried under Gestapo suspicion and a dead dog, the Allied spy ring survives to sell Hitler a wooden army at Calais, and...