Espionage & Secret Services

In this new biography, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her execution, Mata Hari is revealed in all of her flawed eccentricity; ...

SOE agent Violette Szabó was one of the most incredible women who operated behind enemy lines during the Second World War. The daughter of an Engli...

When HMS Laurentic sank in 1917, few knew what cargo she was carrying, and the Admiralty wanted to keep it that way. After all, broadcasting that t...

Signal intelligence is the most secret, and most misunderstood, weapon in the modern espionage arsenal. As a reliable source of information, it is ...

An academic biography of Colonel David de Crespigny Smiley and his intimate involvement in British secret service operations This book illuminates ...

In late November 2006 the world was shaken by the ruthless assassination in London of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lt Col of the Russian security...

In November 1998, Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel of the Russian security service or FSB, along with several former colleagues, p...

Mathilde Carre, notoriously known as La Chatte, was remarkable for all the wrong reasons. Like most spies she was temperamental, scheming and manip...

Wolfe Frank was Chief Interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials where he was dubbed 'The Voice of Doom'. A playboy turned resistance worker he had fled G...

In September 1940 a beautiful young woman arrived by seaplane and rubber dinghy on the shores of Scotland accompanied by two men - one of Germany''...

This is a true story of a force of licensed to kill secret agents, commanded by a real war time secret service chief code names M, with whom Ian F...

Cold War-era FBI files on famous scientists, including Neil Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Alfred Kinsey, and Timothy L...

As one of al-Qaedas most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama b...

By the time he died under mysterious circumstances in Paris in 1979 at the age of sixty, David Karr had reinvented himself numerous times. His rema...

Hector C. Bywater was perhaps the British secret service's finest agent operating in Germany before the First World War, tasked with collecting int...

On 27 May 1942, SS General Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by British-trained Czech agents who had parachuted into Czechoslovakia. He died of hi...

'I am a British soldier, I told my reflection. I am a British soldier and I'm saving lives. I'm saving lives. I'm a British soldier and I'm saving ...

The Times best political books of 2022 'This thought-provoking and informative book suggests that the era of globetrotting lone agents such as Ja...

Since the 1970s, Washington has been secretly funding some of the worst terrorists in the Middle East. America has supported extremists with money ...

Spies have made an extraordinary impact on the history of the 20th Century, but fourteen in particular can be said to have been demonstrably import...

A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of d...

Capital punishment for murder was suspended in Great Britain in 1965, an Act finally made permanent in 1969, but remained as the punishment for tre...