![]() The following passage is part of a chapter on “hidden compartments” secreting information, including wall panels, shoe soles, and, in this case, buttons. His tale includes dozens of little known spies from all walks of life - not only soldiers and officers, but women, children, enslaved people, and ordinary craftsmen those who could blend easily into crowds and appear harmless to military officers on both sides, but whose quiet operations proved crucial.Īs Nagy’s title suggests, his book is also a guide to 18th-century spycraft, including the liquids used for invisible ink, the “masks” used to unveil messages in an insignificant-looking piece of correspondence. A product of Nagy’s decades of searching for clues to the identities and methods of American and British covert operatives during the war, relying heavily on the under-utilized British Army papers of General Henry Clinton, Nagy’s work unveils the identity of many formerly un-acknowledged patriots and numerous crypto-loyalists. ![]() ![]() John Nagy’s 2010 book Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution proves that truth is often stranger than fiction, perhaps particularly when it comes to spying. The popularity of the AMC show Turn has increased awareness of the little-known spy networks that helped Washington defeat British forces during the Revolutionary War. ![]()
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