Espionage & Secret Services

Two German defectors who were to serve British Intelligence from 1942 to 1945 were, in many ways, two of a kind. One was a Nazi, having served in t...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Vivid, honest, inspiring and sometimes shocking, Pippa Latour's memoir shows how right the SOE were to assess her as h...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Vivid, honest, inspiring and sometimes shocking, Pippa Latour's memoir shows how right the SOE were to assess her as h...

Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea ...

In the post-9/11 era, federal homeland security professionals rely heavily on intelligence to perform their tasks in all mission areasprevention, p...

Contemporary Intelligence Warning Cases presents lessons learned and recommendations for producers and users of intelligence warning in their joint...

'A compelling history of the dark arts of statecraft... Fascinating' Jonathan Rugman'Rich in anecdote and detail.' The TimesToday's world is in flu...

Argo meets Spotlight, as journalist Craig Unger, New York Times bestselling author of American Kompromat and House of Bush, House of Saud, reveals ...

In an era of intensified international terror, universities have been increasingly drawn into an arena of locating, monitoring and preventing such ...

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gripping investigation of Israel's assassination policy' Sunday Times'Remarkable' Observer'Riveting' Daily Mail'Com...

In the last decade, the proliferation of billions of new Internet-enabled devices and users has significantly expanded concerns about cybersecurity...

Germany was the epicenter of the Cold War. Across the Iron Curtain, hundreds of thousands of soldiers faced each other, and if World War III were ...

Lindsey A. ORourke is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Her research focuses on regime change, international security, an...

In the last decade, the proliferation of billions of new Internet-enabled devices and users has significantly expanded concerns about cybersecurity...

Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contr...

Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contr...

Officially the Vatican has no espionage service; but does no one carry out intelligence operations on its behalf? During the Second World War and C...

Food has been crucial to the functioning and survival of governments and regimes since the emergence of early states. Yet, only in a few countries ...

Operation Kronstadt not only reveals the early days of Britain's intelligence services but uncovers a truly dramatic story from the Russian Revolut...

This volume draws on Herman's professional experience and personal recollections to examine the past and present of British intelligence. In twenty...

The explosive memoir from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus, I Spy takes you on a non-stop, adenalin-fuelled ride as he hunts down those who w...

'Alford triumphs in recreating the historical moment. By immersing himself in Cecils vast archive, he draws the reader deep into his working enviro...

She burst across the revolutionary sky like a blazing meteor, dazzling all in her path, Trotsky wrote. For the poet Boris Pasternak, she was Lara, ...

The best-selling biography of the greatest spy you've never heard of. A Suspicion of Spies is the first biography of 'Biffy' Dunderdale and tells t...

Space security is a complex assemblage of societal risks and benefits that result from space-based capabilities and is currently in a period of tra...

Shows how mid-Victorian efforts to gather information about the Fenians laid the foundation for later British domestic intelligence in both Ireland...

Throughout the nuclear age, states have taken many different paths toward or away from nuclear weapons. These paths have been difficult to predict ...

Understand the history of hacking culture and the genesis of a powerful modern subculture In Hack to the Future: How World Governments Relentlessly...

THE CLASSIC LOST THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Shockingly good' The Sun'A prescient, high-octane thriller' Daily Express'Totally o...

The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as Operation Vengeance -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of Japan's larger-than-...

Disrupt and Deny is the untold story behind Britain's secret scheming against both enemies and friends from 1945 to the present day. British lead...