If it was fiction you wouldn't believe it !Yet apart from some vividly-imagined and quite likely true conversations, this of nineteenth century espionage and undercover ventures is true. Meet Napoleon and his wiley pre-battle strategy; the Quaker girl who saved Washington's army; the dashing officer who held his girl's photo in his mouth as he was captured and executed so that even in death they would be not divided; and many many others, with the clever lies and impersonations that, through individual wit, turned the course of battle and of power, . Of such things is history made.