Espionage & Secret Services

This volume offers an account of some key activities of the Allied secret services and their German counterparts in Sweden during World War II. It ...

This collection of articles is by experts in the field who are convinced that intelligence has an important role to play, not only in times of war ...

In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It was an event of major historic and global dimensions, yet it took the entire world totally by suprise. In t...

Traditionally the military community held the intelligence profession in low esteem, spying was seen as dirty work and information was all to often...

Not all Germans living under Hitler succumbed passively to the rhetoric and horror of the Nazi regime. Covert popular opposition in the form of hum...

Exploratio is the first ever survey of Roman military and civil intelligence. The authors examine in detail the operation and gradual development o...

When Anthony Blunt died in 1983, he was a man about whom almost anything could be - and was - said. As Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and Directo...

In literature and film the spy chief is an all-knowing, all-powerful figure who masterfully moves spies into action like pieces on a chessboard. Ho...

This book analyses changes in intelligence governance and offers a comparative analysis of intelligence democratisation.Within the field of Securit...

This groundbreaking book explores the treatment of the millions of refugees and tens of thousands of spies that flooded Germany after World War II....

Intelligence continues to undergo significant changes at a remarkable pace, notably developments related to “Big Data,” surveillance, and cyber. In...

Intelligence continues to undergo significant changes at a remarkable pace, notably developments related to “Big Data,” surveillance, and cyber. In...

Building on Goldman’s Words of Intelligence and Maret’s On Their Own Terms this is a one-stop reference tool for anyone studying and working in int...

Building on Goldman’s Words of Intelligence and Maret’s On Their Own Terms this is a one-stop reference tool for anyone studying and working in int...

Partly Cloudy: Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation explores a number of wrenching ethical issues and challenges faced by mil...

Partly Cloudy: Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation explores a number of wrenching ethical issues and challenges faced by mil...

This book is the first comprehensive study of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI). The rise of Pakistan-backed religious extre...

This collection, comprising key works by James J. Wirtz, explains how different threat perceptions can lead to strategic surprise attack, intellige...

Dark networks are the illegal and covert networks (e.g,  insurgents, jihadi groups, or drug cartels) that security and intelligence analysts must t...

This book questions the conventional wisdom about one of the most controversial episodes in the Cold War, and tells the story of the CIA's backing ...

Dark networks are the illegal and covert networks (e.g,  insurgents, jihadi groups, or drug cartels) that security and intelligence analysts must t...

Stalin’s Singing Spy follows the remarkable life of Nadezhda Plevitskaya, a Russian peasant girl who achieved fame as one of Tsar Nicholas II’s fav...

National intelligence cultures are shaped by their country’s history and environment. Featuring 32 countries (such as Albania, Belgium, Croatia, No...

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence is the only volume that lays out how Russian and Soviet intelligenc...

Intelligence is now acknowledged as the hidden dimension to international diplomacy and national security. It is the hidden piece of the jigsaw puz...

With the rise of religiously motivated violence and terrorism, governments around the world need to develop their religious and ideological capabil...

Known as “the Great War,” the world’s first truly global conflict is remarkable in what might now be termed modern espionage. World War I was witne...

Since 9/11, Canada has been on the front lines of a New World Order that few understand. And in today’s world, secret intelligence is not just the ...

Given the rivalries and suspicions prevailing in the Middle East, it is not surprising that most of these states are very concerned about espionage...

This compendium of over 500 entries on the most important and relevant personalities, programs, activities, and agencies of U.S. intelligence, begi...

In a surprising number of espionage cases sex has played a significant role—often only in the background—possibly as a reason why a particular indi...

When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job in 1973, she became the first African American female to hold such a po...

Gwen Terasaki's Bridge to the Sun, an idealized memoir of her marriage in the 1930s and 1940s to a Japanese diplomat, Terasaki Hidenari, is still ...

Killing Detente tells the story of a major episode of intelligence intervention in politics in the mid-1970s that led to the derailing of detente b...

In scenes eerily parallel to the culture of fear inspired by our current War on Terror, A Need to Know explores the clandestine history of a CIA fa...

This edited volume brings together a range of essays by individuals who are centrally involved in the debate about the role and utility of theory i...

Modeled after his successful Cases in International Relations, now in its seventh edition, revered author and scholar, Don Snow, presents an engagi...

Michal Goleniewski was one of the Cold War’s most important spies but has been overlooked in the vast literature on the intelligence battles betwee...

‘A diplomatic genius’ Gordon Brown‘Tom Fletcher is the essential diplomat, and was my support and sounding board about virtually every country on e...

This book traces the many efforts of the German Resistance to forge alliances with Hitler's opponents outside Germany. The Allied agencies, notably...

Tradecraft is a term used within the intelligence community to describe the methods, practices, and techniques used in espionage and clandestine in...

This book, first published in 1991, examines the changes to security and intelligence agencies envisioned in the uncertain world at the end of the ...

This book examines how key developments in international relations in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their oversight.Since th...

The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone an...

Are phenomena labeled as corrupt subject to systematic social science investigation, or does corruption lie so much in the eye of the beholder as t...

An extraordinary tale, much-neglected by historians, of courage, bravery and eventual tragedy which took place during the First World War in the Mi...