Espionage & Secret Services

Lindsey A. ORourke is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Her research focuses on regime change, international security, an...

This lavishly photographed and authoritative book presents the secret history of Soviet subminiature spy cameras during the Cold War. It is a histo...

The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionageA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A finalist for the William E. C...

A spy ring was allowed to grow in Congress, and no one wants to talk about it.When Imran Awan, an IT aide for Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schult...

A thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines A fitting tribute to the hundr...

Diplomat, lawyer, judge, soldier, spy, spymaster - just some of the positions American Norwood Allman, held in his 30 plus years in China. Shanghai...

The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Th...

Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous Cambridge Five spy ring, yet the full e...

This is beautifully slipcased  presented collector s edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, ...

Leaving the chaos of postwar Germany for an uncertain future, 17-year-old Gerhardt Thamm arrived in America in 1948 with little more than his Am...

The riveting true story of the father-and-son co-conspirators who sold US national secrets to Russia. Jim Nicholson was the highest-ranking CIA ...

Can you keep a secret? Maybe you can, but the United States government cannot. Since the birth of the country, nations large and small, from Russi...

As a young Army officer, Robert Baden-Powell was stationed in Malta as an aide to his uncle, General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth. While there, he also...

This book describes the design, manufacture, covert shipment and use of the many ingenious evasion and escape devices provided to Allied troops dur...

How realistically did the British government assess the threat from Nazi Germany during the 1930s? How accurate was British intelligence's understa...

What is the role of intelligence agencies in strategy and policy? How do policymakers use (or misuse) intelligence estimates? When do intelligence-...

The U.S. Secret Service has two missions: criminal investigations and protection. Criminal investigation activities, which have expanded since its ...

The incredible inside story of the world's most extraordinary covert operation.Air America - a secret airline run by the CIA - flew missions no one...

It began with an unsigned email: I am a senior member of the intelligence community. What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach eve...