Espionage & Secret Services

'The Redl Affair had everything: sex, espionage, betrayal, a fall from greatness and a sensational climax in which Redl went to his death like a fi...

Bletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. The bre...

Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May ...

By all accounts, Sally Townsend of Oyster Bay was a very attractive young lady - petite, vivacious, intelligent and remarkably beautiful. But her l...

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

A thrilling history of MI9the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy linesA fitting tribute to the hundred...

A TLS and a Prospect Book of the Year A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first ce...

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

While the so-called ''honey trap'' is a Hollywood cliche, it is also an enduring piece of tradecraft in the real-life world of spy versus spy. Empl...

This pioneering and judicious history of foreign intervention in elections should be read by everyone who wants to defend democracy no...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run the world's most power...

One of our very best writers on France. Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Pat...

WINNER OF THE PEOPLES BOOK PRIZE! Relentless and sleek. This pitch-perfect debut signals the arrival of a remarkable talent. A.J. Finn, author of ...

The true story behind the 2023 ITV series, STONEHOUSE, starring Matthew Macfayden and Keeley Hawes. 'An extraordinary life . . . a vivid account' ...

Elizabeth Thorpe, codenamed Cynthia, was a glamorous American socialite recruited by MI6 to obtain intelligence from the Polish Foreign Ministry an...

Economist Book of the Year 2021'A captivating retelling of one of the most astonishing episodes in East Germany's grim history.' Economist'Merriman...

'All the power and intrigue of a cinematic thriller ... immersive, dramatic, and historically edifying' KirkusMoscow in the late 1970s: one by one,...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* FROM THE AUTHOR OF EAST WEST STREETAs Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter presided over ...

INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETS FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION ...