Espionage & Secret Services

The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception tells the remarkable story of the deceptions, hoaxes and misdirections carried out by the Al...

THE NEW LUKE CARLTON THRILLER.BBC Security Correspondent FRANK GARDNER'S thrillers are . . .'Fast, taut, tense, accurate.' FREDERICK FORSYTH'Utterl...

The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on 6 June 1944 - the long-awaited D-Day - was not only the greatest amphibious military operation of a...

The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on 6 June 1944 - the long-awaited D-Day - was not only the greatest amphibious military operation of a...

A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer-the astonishing true story of two spies an...

'A serious reinvestigation full of revealing background information that sheds additional light on what was then and now remains a shocking crime' ...

Security intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world: individuals, organizations and states all seek timely and ac...

'Merriman excels at recreating the physicality of their experiences: the smell of dense clay, the click-clack of a woman walking down the street ab...

'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times'A spectacular achievement' Dominic Sandbrook'Fast-paced, absorbing, insightful' Simon...

'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times'Lively and original' The Spectator'A spectacular achievement' Dominic Sandbrook'Fast-...

Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the story of Charles Howard 'Dick' ...

An Open Letters Review Best Book of the YearOne of the finest books on information security published so far in this centuryeasily accessible, tigh...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines...

Operating in all weathers, invariably at night, often at low level and usually without fighter escort, Allied Special Duties (SD) squadrons and uni...

The period after the First World War was a golden age for the confidence man. A new kind of entrepreneur is stirring amongst us, The Times wrote in...

Now a green, open space enjoyed by residents, Fort Hunt, Virginia about 15 miles south of Washington, DC. was the site of one of the highest-leve...