Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

The codebreaking efforts at Bletchley Park have obtained greater recognition since the release of the film The Imitation Game in 2014.

This ground breaking book examines the colourful history of the Intelligence Corps from its formation in 1940 up to the present day. Even accepting...

During the Second World War German intelligence had deployed wireless teams throughout occupied Europe. Agents had even been deployed to mainland B...

This refreshingly impartial history of the Office of Naval Intelligence is important both because ONI was the first official American intelligence ...

Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis'' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United St...

This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of rec...

What makes a good missionary makes a good American spy, or so thought Office of Special Services (OSS) founder Wild Bill Donovan when he recruited ...

Britain relied upon secret intelligence operations to rule Mandatory Palestine. Statecraft by Stealth sheds light on a time in history when the mur...

Bernard Dargols was a young Parisian student working in New York when war broke out in 1939. While his family remained in France and was threatened...

It is, of course, no secret that undercover Special Forces and intelligence agencies operated in Northern Ireland and the Republic throughout the '...

WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, wr...

Builds a revisionary theoretical framework for researching intelligence knowledge and applies it to the Swedish Military and Security DirectorateGu...

One of Churchill s most controversial decisions during the Second World War was to switch SOE support in Yugoslavia in 1943 from the Cetniks loyal ...

Alongside the open conflict of World War II there were other, hidden wars - the wars of communication, in which success depended on a flow of conce...

'Judicious and absorbing' New York Times Book Review In this biography of Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), the man said to be the model for Greene's Th...

A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In Dec...

The Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) was the political police force of the German Army during World War II. Its members were drawn from...

WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, wr...

American policy on the interrogation of detainees is an exceptionally complex issue, one that cannot be adequately addressed nor satisfactorily res...