Espionage & Secret Services

While unravelling the mystery of her father - a Master Spys - death, an investigative journalist reveals the truth behind an era of endless wars in...

Now in its Sixth Edition, Robert M. Clark's Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach once again delivers a consistent, clear method for tea...

The US Air Force has performed peripheral reconnaissance adjacent to the traditional foe of Russia, China, North Korea and others for seven decades...

December 1941. After setting up one of the first resistance organisations in Vichy France and escaping over the Pyrenees into Spain, brothers Henry...

Poland was the 'tripwire' that brought Britain into the Second World War, but it was largely the fear of the new Nazi-Soviet Pact rather than the c...

Most of us remember the seventh of September 1940 as the day the London docks were bombed and devastated by fire. I remember it as the day I was ca...

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA''s secret paramilitary units. Surprise . . . your t...

'A METICULOUS HISTORY THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER' BEN MACINTYRE, TEN BEST BOOKS TO READ ABOUT WORLD WAR II An astounding story of heroism, spycr...

MI5 is arguably the most secret and misunderstood of all the British government departments. Its enigmatic title - much more than its proper name, ...

In King of Spies, prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden, reveals one of the most astonishing - and ...

A family man who ran afoul of the Nazis, Josef Jakobs was ill-prepared for an espionage mission to England. Captured by the Home Guard after breaki...

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...

It was inevitable that the Allies would invade France in the summer of 1944: the Nazis just had to figure out where and when. This job fell to the ...

Delving into an encyclopaedic array of little-known primary sources, William Beaver uncovers a vigorous intelligence function at the heart of Victo...

FULLY UPDATED CENTENARY EDITION An important book Max Hastings, Sunday Times ...

At an auction in Edinburgh in 2010, the sale of an old walking stick belonging to a British officer, Captain Gill, shed new light on one of the mys...

Pham Xuan An was a Communist agent whose espionage adventures - under the cover story of a celebrated war correspondent in the Western Media -- wer...

The Second World War had been won, but relationships between the Western allies and the Soviet Union were becoming increasingly strained, as the nu...

All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective ... this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong.Th...

Nearly forty female agents were sent out by the French section of Britains Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. The youn...

Charles II''s father was executed, his brother James managed to stay on the throne for only four years, yet Charles died in his bed having ruled fo...

Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction'Spellbinding ... a magisterial account of the great tragedy of our age ... it...

After the Second World War, the Allies vowed to hunt Nazi war criminals to the ends of the earth. Yet many slipped awayor were shielded by the West...

Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593) is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan intelligence agent and diplo...

Fascinating and powerful. Sunday Times What do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies? By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German ...

The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own wordsA beautiful collection of writings by schoolmaster-turned-secret ...

Spies, lies and family tiesHer father was a man cloaked in mystery, a man of contradiction. James M. Eichelberger was a writer, philosopher, decora...

A vastly entertaining and unique history of spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.Throughout history, there has b...

'Early in my research, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me, Don't give up. They are hiding som...

How the US is losing the counterintelligence war and what the country should do to better protect our national security and trade secrets The Unit...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's revelatory look inside the sinister world of private spies.A spy story like no other.Private spies are the in...

_____________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION _____________ 'John le Carré demystified the i...

A darkly entertaining tale about American espionage, set in an era when Washingtons fear and skepticism about the agency resembles our climate toda...

In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and tort...

THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH CHOICE MAGAZINE HARDBACK OF THE MONTH A thoroughly gripping spy thriller... Captures the high stakes paranoia of ...

Tests whether the analysis of competing hypotheses reduces cognitive bias, and proposes a more effective approachReveals that a key element of curr...

Sober, accurate and all the more thrilling for it. The best thing on Blake that we are likely to get for a very long time.' JOHN LE CARRÉ On 3 May ...

The story of the Malayan Emergency remains a relatively unknown yet fascinating part of twentieth-century history. It represents the last real mili...

This book breaks new ground in two important areas that have yet to be linked and explored by any JFK-assassination historian. John Koerner argues ...

'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief'Richard Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorSir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important Briti...