Espionage & Secret Services

J.C. Masterman was chairman of the Double-Cross Committee at the height of World War Two. This is his account of the double agents, deception and c...

Over the past fifty years, Nigel West has been involved in almost every espionage-related investigation, breakthrough or revelation that you can th...

Barry Broman has led a remarkable life, and met some remarkable people along the way of his years at a Central Intelligence Agency case officer. Br...

During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency's biggest and longest paramilitary operation was in the tiny kingdom of Laos. Hundreds of advi...

Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolution...

Now in paperback, a compelling narrative about how two Great Powers of the early twentieth century did battle, both openly and in the shadows Deca...

A compelling new narrative about how two Great Powers of the early twentieth century did battle, both openly and in the shadows Decades before the...

The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders wi...

Raul Villamia's childhood in Cuba revolved around baseball and bloodshed. The violence that he witnessed led him to support Castro's revolution,...

The most comprehensive history of Canadian military intelligence and its influence on key military operations Canadian intelligence has become inc...

An in-depth analysis of why COVID-19 warnings failed and how to avert the next disaster Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for ...

Six tells the complete story of the service's birth and early years, including the tragic, untold tale of what happened to Britain's extensive netw...

Would the Islamic State ever renounce violence? In the current political climate, the question seems preposterous. Yet, at the height of a terroris...

The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-run...

By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clust...

Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the ...

Global adoption of the Internet has exploded, yet we are only beginning to understand the Internet's profound political consequences. Authoritarian...

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, f...

'Five stars. One of the best books I've read in a very, very long time' James O'Brien, LBC'This is first class' The Times | 'Excellent' Spectator'A...

Few Americans know much more about Nathan Hale than his famous last words: I only regret that I have one life left to give for my country. But wh...

James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to Donald Maclean, Guy Burges...

In the early 1940s, in a grand, Buckinghamshire country house on the banks of the River Thames, a secret intelligence unit worked day and night to ...