Espionage & Secret Services

THE CLASSIC LOST THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* * * * *It always starts with a small lie. That''s how you stop noticing the bigger...

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

The first complete account of the fiercely guarded secrets of London''s clandestine interrogation center, operated by the British Secret Service fr...

From the fogbound streets of London reeling from the Blitz, Ike and Kay is a thrilling tale of wartime romance, brimming with love, duty, sacrifice...

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple vic...

A remarkable insight into the training and techniques of Allied agents operating behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Most wars have ha...

Sinclair McKay''s Bletchley Park Brainteasers was the runaway quiz book bestseller of 2017, now it''s time to pit your wits against the secret hero...

On 14 June 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte fought his first battle as French head of state at Marengo in northern Italy. Unexpectedly attacked, Napoleon's ...

Andrew Thomson rethinks the history of US imperialism, from the Cold War to today, to reveal how paramilitaries, militias, mercenaries, private arm...

'Tim Tate, in Hitler's British Traitors, [explores] the entire grimy landscape of British treachery during the Second World War and the astonishing...

Kandahar. An ancient desert crossroads and, as of fall of 2001, ground zero for the Taliban and al-Qaida in southern Afghanistan. In the northern p...

Loyalty and Liberty offers the first comprehensive account of the politics of countersubversion in the United States prior to the McCarthy era. Beg...

Espionage is one of the worlds oldest professions, and it played an integral role in Allied successes and failures during the Second World War. Equ...

'Sensationally good ... A riveting story, the real-life spooks and spies far more compelling than anything you will see on the screen ... history...

Over sixty female agents were sent out by Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. These women - as well as othe...

The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius t...

A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood. On September ...