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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - A

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - A

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At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing - seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of...
SECRET AGENTS POCKET MANUAL

SECRET AGENTS POCKET MANUAL

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Most wars have had some element of espionage and subterfuge, but few have included as much as the Second World War, where the all-embracing nature of the conflict, new technology,...
The CIA: An Imperial History

The CIA: An Imperial History

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' Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times 'A spectacular achievement' Dominic Sandbrook 'Fast-paced, absorbing, insightful' Simon Hall 'Simply superb' Kathryn Olmsted A celebrated British historian of US...
MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service

MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service

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Published in hardback as THE ART OF BETRAYAL and fully updated for the paperback edition. The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it...
Ultimate Spy

Ultimate Spy

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The insider's guide to the secret world of espionage. Keith Melton presents the expertise and inside information that he has gathered over the years in a comprehensive account that covers...
Defending the Realm: Inside M15 and the War on Terrorism

Defending the Realm: Inside M15 and the War on Terrorism

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A brand new edition of this fascinating book on M15 intelligence operations. Updated and expanded with brand new material on the war on Terrorism such as insider reports on the...
I Spy: The Secret Life of a British Agent

I Spy: The Secret Life of a British Agent

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This is the story of the quest, undertaken by Major Kavan Elliott's son - the author Geoffrey Elliott - for the truth about his father. Who was Major Kavan Elliott,...
A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French

A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French

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The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree renounced his former pacifism...
The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for

The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for

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'My mother thought I was working for the Ministry of Ag. and Fish.' So begins Noreen Riols' compelling memoir of her time as a member of Churchill's 'secret army', the...
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in

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Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military...
All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

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The untold story of Robert Cecil, the ultimate Tudor spy-master Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor...
Big Boys' Rules: Secret Struggle Against the IRA

Big Boys' Rules: Secret Struggle Against the IRA

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In this book, defence specialist and war correspondent Mark Urban explores covert operations against the IRA from the mid-1970s to the Loughgall shooting in 1987. Drawing on interviews with people...
The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West

The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West

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Described by the FBI as 'The most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source'. For twelve years, at enormous personal risk, Vasili Mitrokhin smuggled material from one of...
Traitor's Odyssey: The Untold Story of Martha Dodd and a Strange Saga

Traitor's Odyssey: The Untold Story of Martha Dodd and a Strange Saga

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'A delicious, gossipy and thoroughly engaging romp ... heartily recommended.' - Tim Tate, author of Hitler's British Traitors and The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold 'A captivating...
Spies Like Us

Spies Like Us

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Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda

Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda

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Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services-including France's DGSE (Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure), and Britain's MI5 and MI6....
On Secret Service East of Constantinople

On Secret Service East of Constantinople

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Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the...
Spy School: Are You Sharp Enough to be a KGB Agent?

Spy School: Are You Sharp Enough to be a KGB Agent?

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The Number One Russian bestseller Spy School:Train your Memory Like a KGB Agent by Denis Bukin is part spy-story, part brain gym as test yourself against the techniques that produced...
The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana

The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana

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For the first time, The Secret Royals uncovers the remarkable relationship between the Royal Family and the intelligence community, from the reign of Queen Victoria to the death of Princess...
Den of Spies: The Untold Story of Reagan, Carter and the Treason that

Den of Spies: The Untold Story of Reagan, Carter and the Treason that

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Argo meets Spotlight , as New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger reveals his thirty-year investigation into the secret collusion between Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign and Iran, raising urgent...
The Venlo Sting: MI6's Deadly Fiasco

The Venlo Sting: MI6's Deadly Fiasco

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On 9 November 1939, two unsuspecting British agents of the Special Intelligence Services walked into a trap set by German Spymaster Reinhard Heydrich. Believing that they were meeting a dissident...
Den of Spies: The Untold Story of Reagan, Carter and the Treason that

Den of Spies: The Untold Story of Reagan, Carter and the Treason that

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Argo meets Spotlight , as New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger reveals his thirty-year investigation into the secret collusion between Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign and Iran, raising urgent...
FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved The Way For The Invasion Of

FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved The Way For The Invasion Of

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Nineteen months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR sent twelve "vice consuls" to Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia on a secret mission. Their objective? To prepare the groundwork for what...
Pistols! Treason! Murder!

Pistols! Treason! Murder!

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Walker's story of intrigue and betrayal will fascinate and enthrall. 'Jon Walker's Pistols deserves to be called our first true work of 'punk history'. Through the dank Venetian alleyways we...
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

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Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down. Women sent cables,...
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * A "heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11" ( The New York Times Book Review ), this definitive history explains in...
The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present

The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present

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"By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing...
The Sword and the Shield

The Sword and the Shield

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The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet...
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a...
Kitty Harris: The Spy with 17 Names

Kitty Harris: The Spy with 17 Names

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Who was Kitty Harris Born in London to an emigre Jewish family she was a key figure in Soviet espionage networks across the globe, running agents in London, Berlin, Shanghai,...
The Sanction: An explosive, twisting espionage thriller

The Sanction: An explosive, twisting espionage thriller

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A bullet in the right place can change the world... Rebecca da Silva , former crack sniper in the British Special Forces stationed in Afghanistan, is languishing in a dead-end...
Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

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'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling author Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women...
Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero

Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero

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With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon...
Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China

Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China

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In this compelling new study, Louise Edwards explores the lives of some of China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. Focusing on key figures including Hua Mulan,...
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War

The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War

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'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' OBSERVER 'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN The astonishing story of the ten million...
Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding

Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding

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Young Australian teacher Bruce Dowding arrived in Paris in 1938, planning only to improve his understanding of French language and culture. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero draws on decades of research...
Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

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When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal...
Global Strike: A Strike Back Novel (3)

Global Strike: A Strike Back Novel (3)

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If you love the Strikeback series, pre-order the thrilling new book, Red Strike , now. Coming February 2019. Charles Street was once a highly-respected agent working for MI6, until a...
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered...
The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent

The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent

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'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear- the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has...
Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

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A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique...
Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War

Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War

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In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own...
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in

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Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military...
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy

Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became

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The Sunday Times and NYT bestseller. A shocking true-life thriller about corruption, dirty politics and murder in Russia by one of Putin's Most Wanted. 'An unburdening, a witness statement and...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

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The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback Ursula Kuczynski Burton was a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent....
Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact

Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact

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Jack Ryan Jr returns in Tom Clancy's thrilling series - the inspiration behind the smash-hit on Amazon Prime At a suspected Hezbollah hideout in Argentina, a team of elite counter-terror...
Soldier Spy

Soldier Spy

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Soldier Spy is to the war against the enemy at home what Bravo Two Zero was to Gulf War 1 In the boot were six homemade pipe bombs, all linked...