Espionage & Secret Services

Nearly forty female agents were sent out by the French section of Britains Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. The youn...

Charles II''s father was executed, his brother James managed to stay on the throne for only four years, yet Charles died in his bed having ruled fo...

Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction'Spellbinding ... a magisterial account of the great tragedy of our age ... it...

After the Second World War, the Allies vowed to hunt Nazi war criminals to the ends of the earth. Yet many slipped awayor were shielded by the West...

Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593) is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan intelligence agent and diplo...

Fascinating and powerful. Sunday Times What do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies? By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German ...

The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own wordsA beautiful collection of writings by schoolmaster-turned-secret ...

Spies, lies and family tiesHer father was a man cloaked in mystery, a man of contradiction. James M. Eichelberger was a writer, philosopher, decora...

A vastly entertaining and unique history of spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.Throughout history, there has b...

'Early in my research, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me, Don't give up. They are hiding som...

How the US is losing the counterintelligence war and what the country should do to better protect our national security and trade secrets The Unit...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's revelatory look inside the sinister world of private spies.A spy story like no other.Private spies are the in...

_____________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION _____________ 'John le Carré demystified the i...

A darkly entertaining tale about American espionage, set in an era when Washingtons fear and skepticism about the agency resembles our climate toda...

In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and tort...

THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH CHOICE MAGAZINE HARDBACK OF THE MONTH A thoroughly gripping spy thriller... Captures the high stakes paranoia of ...

Tests whether the analysis of competing hypotheses reduces cognitive bias, and proposes a more effective approachReveals that a key element of curr...

Sober, accurate and all the more thrilling for it. The best thing on Blake that we are likely to get for a very long time.' JOHN LE CARRÉ On 3 May ...

The story of the Malayan Emergency remains a relatively unknown yet fascinating part of twentieth-century history. It represents the last real mili...

This book breaks new ground in two important areas that have yet to be linked and explored by any JFK-assassination historian. John Koerner argues ...

'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief'Richard Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorSir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important Briti...