Espionage & Secret Services

Better to fight for something than live for nothing. General George S. PattonIt is 75 years since the end of WW II and the strange, mysterious dea...

What is intelligence why is it so hard to define, and why is there no systematic theory of intelligence? Classic intelligence analysis is based on...

As Katherine Verdery observes, There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are. In 1973 Verdery began he...

From the far-flung battlefields of Europe and Asia to the famous naval encounters on the high seas, the global conflict between Britain and Revolut...

Early in the morning of 18 May 1942, three Dutchmen were captured in the North Sea and taken to MI5. It soon became clear that one in particular, J...

Kandahar. An ancient desert crossroads, and as of fall of 2001, ground zero for the Taliban and al-Qaida in southern Afghanistan. In the north, the...

The Secret War marks a new direction in the cultural history and theory of intelligence gathering and state secrecy in the twentieth and early twen...

Tells the fist person story of Verne Lyon, an Iowa farm boy away at college who is inducted into the CIA to spy on his professors and fellow studen...

In the eighty years since Pearl Harbor, the United States has developed a professional intelligence community that is far more effective than most ...

Initially stationed at the U.S. Army's counterintelligence headquarters in Saigon, David Noble was sent north to launch the army's first covert int...

Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and sho...

The astonishing true story of how the CIA, MI6 and a Soviet defector saved the world in 1962, as told in the new film, The Courier, starring Benedi...

In this remarkable tale Nick Barratt delves into the shadows of the British and Soviet secret services to reveal the shocking story of his great un...

Hes out of options. Kill. Or be killed. A searing thriller that will leave you reelingDisgraced Navy SEAL Finn is on the run.A wanted man, hes soug...

X' Section of S.O.2, a part of the Ministry of Economic Warfare, was formed in November 1940. Just two months later it came under the command of Ma...

LIONEL BUSTER CRABB was a drinker, a gambler, a womaniser and a lover of fast cars and gadgets. On top of all that, he was a spy, an acquaintance o...

He was the son of a hereditary peer, one of the wealthiest men in Britain. His childhood was privileged; at Cambridge, he flourished. At the age of...

Odette Brailly entered the nation's consciousness in the 1950s when her remarkable - and romantic - exploits as an SOE agent first came to light. S...

This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. Ther...

IN this compelling investigation, author Michael Smith explores the critical moment in a spy''s life: that split-second decision to embrace a doubl...

The Second World War saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict unlik...

Silver was the codename for the only quintuple spy of the Second World War, spying for the Italians, Germans, Japanese, Soviets and the British. Th...

Robert 'Bob' Maloubier, otherwise known as the French James Bond and as Churchills Secret Agent, led a life straight out of a spy thriller. At the ...

In this new biography, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her execution, Mata Hari is revealed in all of her flawed eccentricity; ...

John Cairncross was among the most damaging spies of the twentieth century. A member of the infamous Cambridge Ring of Five, he leaked highly sensi...

In 1935-37 America passed several Neutrality Acts, vowing never again to take sides in a European conflict. In 1938 public attitudes changed, with ...

JANE WHORWOOD (1612-84) was one of Charles I''s closest confidantes. The daughter of Scots courtiers at Whitehall and the wife of an Oxfordshire sq...

A portrait of Stephanie von Hohenlohe (1891-1972), notorious as a secret go-between and even a professional blackmailer. Despite her Jewish roots, ...

Ever since it was created in 1947, the CIA has been anxious about people wanting to tell its stories. Indeed, its effectiveness as an intelligence ...

Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into his 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He ...

The actual course given to all secret agents in SOE before working behind enemy lines. It includes everything you needed to know to go undercover ...

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...

The history of secret intelligence, like secret intelligence itself, is fraught with difficulties surrounding both the reliability and completeness...

Dubbed an 'agent of British imperialism' by Joseph Stalin, Reginald Teague-Jones (1889- 1988) was the quintessential English spy whose exceptional ...

Every American schoolchild knows of the crimes of Alger Hiss, a man whose very name rings with villainy. Communist, spy, perjurer - all of these a...

This is the Second World War career of the longest serving double agent in the Double Cross system, Harry Williamson. Harry operated from September...

Paul Dukes was sent into Russia in 1918, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution. His role was to keep the British spy networks in place during the ...

The United Kingdoms domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, most commonly known as MI5, was founded in 1909 by Sir Vernon Kell KBE. Kell...

State secrecy is increasingly used as the explanation for the shrinking of public discussion surrounding national security issues. The phrase that...

The shadowy world of supposedly legalized spying has an enduring fascination for us all. Spy and Counterspy reveals for the first time the web of s...

From the summer of 1940 until May 1941, nearly twenty German Abwehr agents were dropped by boat or parachute into England during what was known as ...

When Betty Farmer married double agent Eddie Chapman, Agent Zigzag, she knew her life would never be ordinary. Yet even before her marriage to Eddi...

Klop Ustinov was Britain's most ingenious spy - but he was never licensed to kill. Instead, he was authorised to bemuse and beguile his enemies int...