Espionage & Secret Services

A vastly entertaining and unique history of the interaction between spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.'A trea...

By shifting American security policy away from maximizing military power for the United States and toward maximizing human security for all, policy...

Why Spy? is the result of Brian Stewart's seventy years of working in, and studying the uses and abuses of, intelligence in the real world. Few boo...

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

Many of the most famous escapes in history took place during the Second World War. These daring flights from Nazi-occupied Europe would never have ...

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

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 stil...

As the horror of Nazism tightened its grip on Germany, Jews found themselves trapped and desperate. For many, their only hope of salvation came in ...

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

'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...

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 Year“One of the finest books on information security published so far in this century—easily accessible, ti...

Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them beforeFancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hill...

Translated into English for the first time, this is a fascinating history of intelligence practices and their impact on great power rivalries in th...

Terrorism kills far fewer Americans annually than automobile accidents, firearms, or even lightning strikes. Given this minimal risk, why does the ...

After the end of the Cold War, it seemed as if Southeast Asia would remain a geopolitically stable region within the American imperious for the for...

The Skripal Files tells the full story behind the Salisbury Poisonings, one of the most shocking incidents to occur in Britain in recent memory. Br...

Three-quarters of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials secretly manipulate or direct policy in the United ...

First World War espionage was a fascinating and dangerous affair, spawning widespread paranoia in its clandestine wake. The hysteria of the age, st...

In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the Second World War’s most daring operations and the fi...