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Over Cold War Seas: NATO and Soviet Naval Aviation, 1949-89
Michael Napier describes the naval air power deployed by NATO, Warsaw Pact and neutral countries throughout the Cold War. In 1949, an Iron Curtain was drawn across Europe, and the...
The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
'An extraordinary firsthand account of Communist Party machinery at its most brutal and paranoid' -- Sunday Telegraph Picked as Hilary Spurling's Book of the Year in The Spectator. The spellbinding...
The Defector: The untold story of the KGB agent who saved MI5 and
Drawing on newly declassified intelligence documents and dozens of interviews with spymasters, The Defector tells a startling story of a Soviet mission to plant fake Kremlin agents within British and...
The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival
From the best-selling author of Chernobyl comes a sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race, from the first atomic bomb to today On 16 July 1945, the...
The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB
The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man - Vasili Mitrokhin - turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the...
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War
A fascinating, frightening and sometimes funny window into an all-too recent world - everyday life in Britain in the shadow of the mushroom cloud The first book to tell the...
My Mother, The Spy: The daring and tragic double life of ASIO agent Mercia Masson
'I have lost everything in coming here. I have lost my friends... I have probably lost my position; I shall probably have to remove my child from the school and...