Espionage & Secret Services

In this fascinating, exhaustively researched reexamination of the ‘Pueblo Incident,’ Robert Liston comes to a remarkable conclusion: the Pueblo was...

From the biblical days of Delilah to mdern times there have been women who ventured at their peril as spies into the conflicts of armed men. Recoun...

What does it mean for human beings to exist in an era of dronified state violence? How can we understand the rise of robotic systems of power and d...

Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on personal tes...

In the mid-nineteenth century a group of Irish revolutionaries, known as the Fenians, set out to destroy Britain’s North American empire. Between 1...

A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates The United States is a nation of foodies and food activists, man...

In 1933, the celebrated German economist Robert Kuczynski and his wife Berta arrived in Britain as refugees from Nazism, followed shortly afterward...

'A deeply human read, wonderfully written, on the foibles of a fascinating, flawed, treacherous and sort of likeable character.' Philippe Sands Th...

"Compulsively readable laugh out loud history." Mary Roach Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering dru...

In the darkest days of the Second World War, with Europe falling under German occupation and Britain facing invasion, a 36-year-old refugee from th...

The only biography of Britain's celebrated female spy – now fully updated with previously classified materials. From being raised in a Tanzanian s...

The first book ever written about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by a member of his personal staff—his former assistant, Paul Letersky—offers unprece...

Security intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world: individuals, organizations and states all seek timely and ac...

Edited and introduced by MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging documents brought by the Department of Justice an...

A locked vault. A deadly prize within.Upon the successful completion of a risky, undercover assignment in the States, Korso, elite covert salvage o...

Security depends on intelligence. A leading authority discusses basic problems in American intelligence and how to fix them William E. Odom is the ...

In Spying with Maps, the "mapmatician" Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking acros...

While battalions hunkered down in the mud of western France, anti-aircraft guns took aim at zeppelins floating over the capital, and Atlantic convo...

The methods developed by British intelligence in the early twentieth century continue to resonate today. Much like now, the intelligence activity o...

'The Gestapo kept me three days in this interrogation house. They especially wanted to know what I did after my escape, and precise things on the o...