Espionage & Secret Services

SOEs Belgian and Dutch operations in the Second World War have always been considered highly controversial because of the notorious Englandspiel (t...

Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, an...

A must read for anyone who wants to understand the new American way of war. - General Michael V. Hayden, former Director of the Central Intelligen...

In late February, 1968, a Russian submarine, holding a battery of three ballistic missiles with enough nuclear material to create an explosion 50 t...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe gripping true story of the undercover agent risking his life to fight terrorismTheir aim was to kill as many peopl...

1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the ...

We Know All About You shows how bulk spying came of age in the nineteenth century, and supplies the first overarching narrative and interpretation ...

Shadow Warriorsis a fascinating look at the women of the UK and US secret service branches during the Second World War. These were women of enormou...

The definitive study of the topic. --Prof. Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian, POL...

The definitive study of the topic. --Prof. Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian, POL...

National security intelligence is a vast, complex, and important topic, made doubly hard for citizens to understand because of the thick veils of s...

Total Espionage was first published shortly before Pearl Harbor and is fresh in its style, retaining immediacy unpolluted by the knowledge of subse...

Moura Budberg: spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the centurys greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura ...

Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a ...

After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered int...

Spy Sub is the acclaimed story of the secret mission by the USS Viperfish to find a lost Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles in the great ...

'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman'Dunlop is e...

The Second World War upended many lives, disrupting patterns and routines and bringing an array of terrifying new dangers with it. For Jenny Nater,...

Early in the morning of 18 May 1942, three Dutchmen were captured in the North Sea and taken to MI5. It soon became clear that one in particular, J...

When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national secur...

John Goldsmith's wartime exploits are all the more remarkable considering that at first his services were consistently refused due to his being ove...

Very Special Agent Fifi was described as one of the most expert liars in the world. Employed by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), Churchills ...