Espionage & Secret Services

The Spycatcher affair remains one of the most intriguing moments in the history of British intelligence and a pivotal point in the public's relatio...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph 'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensel...

From dedicated Wolves fans and journalists Paul Berry and Johnny Phillips, the full appraisal of Wolverhampton Wanderers' past twenty years, publis...

We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will dec...

In 'this remarkable book' (as intelligence historian Nigel West describes it in his Foreword), the reader will be struck by the vibrancy of history...

This book reveals the development, strategy and extraordinary success of Britains secret services in Francos Spain during the Second World War. The...

Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with external...

The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSAs wa...

In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious ag...

A groundbreaking comparative analysis of three understudied cases of intelligence democratization revealing new insights into main barriers to refo...

A groundbreaking comparative analysis of three understudied cases of intelligence democratization revealing new insights into main barriers to refo...

A career of nearly three decades with the CIA and the National Intelligence Council showed Paul R. Pillar that intelligence reforms, especially mea...

The sequel to Nazi Secret Warfare , which portrayed the catastrophic failure of Germany's clandestine services in Persia (Iran) during the Second W...

An innovative history of US intelligence officers on the ground and the first official contacts between the United States and the Chinese Communist...

An innovative history of US intelligence officers on the ground and the first official contacts between the United States and the Chinese Communist...

A must-readIt reveals important truths.Vint Cerf, Internet pioneerOne of the finest books on information security published so far in this centurye...

The author believes that all international strategic manoeuvrings in the region, mostly rely on information that is entirely fabricated and portray...

A concise introduction to the history and evolution of security at sea. Whether it is pirates, smugglers, illicit fishing, or disputes in the Sou...