Espionage & Secret Services

Experts in the intelligence community say that torture is ineffective. Yet much of the public appears unconvinced: surveys show that nearly half of...

In Subversion, Lennart Maschmeyer provides a powerful new theory and analysis of an age-old concept. While a strategy of subversion offers great st...

Moving the debate beyond the place of tactical intelligence in counterinsurgency warfare, Confronting the Colonies considers the view from Whitehal...

A true-crime masterpiece. Don WinslowFrom the FBIs former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of Americas highways, revealing t...

Established in the 1940s, the Five Eyes intelligence network consists of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The allian...

When Japanese signals were decoded at Bletchley Park, who translated them into English? When Japanese soldiers were taken as prisoners of war, who ...

Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's desperate struggle to secure e...

Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by the Australian army officer Major-General Walter Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Sta...

A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century   From the t...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A riveting* international cloak-and-dagger epic, here is the stunning untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secr...

THE HIDDEN HAND Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has played an outsized role in the political life of the United State...

A highly original comprehensive history of US military medicine. Decisions to go to war are often framed in cost-benefit terms, and typically such...

Revised and updated with a new preface on the Crimean crisis ______________________________________ 'An impressive polemic arguing that the West s...

A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spiesfrom ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to ass...

The history of recruiting citizens to spy on each other in the United States. Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think...

Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, uncovers a systematic campaign to persecute Assange. He reveals that Assange has faced grave a...

When do we see social movements mobilize against the American military overseas, and what explains their varying intensity? Despite increasing inte...

Territory has always played a key role in the origins, conduct, and consequences of armed conflict. For territories to exist in any meaningful sens...