Espionage & Secret Services

Britain relied upon secret intelligence operations to rule Mandatory Palestine. Statecraft by Stealth sheds light on a time in history when the mur...

An academic but accessible study of espionage and its impact, this is the first in a series of studies in early modern European history edited by l...

Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's desperate struggle to secure e...

In 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and th...

By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There wou...

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

This lavishly photographed and authoritative book presents the secret history of Soviet subminiature spy cameras during the Cold War. It is a histo...

The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionageA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A finalist for the William E. C...

A spy ring was allowed to grow in Congress, and no one wants to talk about it.When Imran Awan, an IT aide for Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schult...

A thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines A fitting tribute to the hundr...

Diplomat, lawyer, judge, soldier, spy, spymaster - just some of the positions American Norwood Allman, held in his 30 plus years in China. Shanghai...

The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Th...

Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous Cambridge Five spy ring, yet the full e...

This is beautifully slipcased  presented collector s edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, ...

Leaving the chaos of postwar Germany for an uncertain future, 17-year-old Gerhardt Thamm arrived in America in 1948 with little more than his Am...

The riveting true story of the father-and-son co-conspirators who sold US national secrets to Russia. Jim Nicholson was the highest-ranking CIA ...

Can you keep a secret? Maybe you can, but the United States government cannot. Since the birth of the country, nations large and small, from Russi...

As a young Army officer, Robert Baden-Powell was stationed in Malta as an aide to his uncle, General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth. While there, he also...

This book describes the design, manufacture, covert shipment and use of the many ingenious evasion and escape devices provided to Allied troops dur...

How realistically did the British government assess the threat from Nazi Germany during the 1930s? How accurate was British intelligence's understa...

What is the role of intelligence agencies in strategy and policy? How do policymakers use (or misuse) intelligence estimates? When do intelligence-...

The U.S. Secret Service has two missions: criminal investigations and protection. Criminal investigation activities, which have expanded since its ...

The incredible inside story of the world's most extraordinary covert operation.Air America - a secret airline run by the CIA - flew missions no one...

It began with an unsigned email: I am a senior member of the intelligence community. What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach eve...

The thrilling true story of John Goldsmith, one of the great unsung heroes of World War Two. An English racehorse trainer and horse dealer''s son, ...

Ten years after 9/11, the least reformed part of America's intelligence system is not the CIA or FBI but the US Congress. In Eyes on Spies, Amy Zeg...

Although almost a half-century has passed since the jury at Alger Hiss's second trial pronounced him guilty of perjury, the case remains controvers...

This book consists of seven stand-alone accounts of individuals who operated as spies during the American Revolutionary War. They were not train...

Drawing heavily on recently declassified sources, this examination of German wartime intelligence services traces the logistical and strategic e...

The First World War did not bypass Latin America, but immediately cast its shadow over every port from Tijuana to Punta Arenas, and every capitol f...

Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid-...

The real history of MI5. 'PO Box 500, London W2'; the nondescript address from behind which one of the world's most famous Secret Services hid: MI5...

VICTOIRE is about Mathilde Carre - codenamed ''''La Chatte'''', the cat, then known as Agent Victoire - who was the exceptionally charismatic and d...

LONGLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'One of the mysteries I've long been fascinated by, and I am so grateful that Ravi Somaiya has c...

WINNER OF THE NEAVE BOOK PRIZE 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2021'One of the best books ever written about intelligence...

During WW2, a group of Jewish refugees (intellectuals, writers, artists and athletes - most from Germany and Austria) escaped to Britain and were i...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRÉ'Remarkable' THE SUNDAY...

The real history of MI5 during the era of the Cold War, the IRA & international terrorism. 'PO Box 500, London W2'; the nondescript address fro...

Questioning actions taken by American intelligence agencies prior to 9/11, this investigation charges that intelligence officials repeatedly and de...

Presents evidence suggesting collusion between US and Israeli intelligence in the attack on a US naval surveillance vessel during the Six-Day War a...

The prewar history of the Japanese intelligence community demonstrates how having power over much, but insight into little can have devastating con...

Why did the CIA overthrow Iran's democratically elected government? And why has the United States treated Iran as one of its biggest enemies for fo...