Espionage & Cold War

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...

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,...

January, 1953. It is eight years on from the most destructive conflict in human history and the Cold War has entered its most deadly phase. An Iron Curtain has descended...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, "an expansive and generous history" of East Germany ( New Republic...

' 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...

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...

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was...

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...

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...

The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and...

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,...

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...

'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...

In December 1971, after having stepped down as the United Nations' longest-serving Secretary-General, U Thant was ranked the sixth 'most admired man' in America. So why he is largely forgotten...

The second novel in the Game, Set and Match trilogy is a gripping study in the art of spy enrolment World-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal...

Len Deighton's best-selling first spy novel which revolutionised the genre, now published in Penguin Classics for the first time A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionage A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award "IMPORTANT" (...

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...

A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carre's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George...

Intense and enthralling thriller, and a secret that will send shockwaves through the corridors of Westminster . . . VIENNA, 1946- A brilliant German scientist spirited out of the ruins...

A beautifully designed new Clothbound Classic of le Carre's masterpiece, published to celebrate the novel's 50th anniversary A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the...

Bernard Samson becomes a pawn in a game played by the Kremlin in the final instalment of the Game, Set and Match trilogy Long-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all...

The first novel in the Bernard Samson series is a dazzling return to Deighton's world of Cold War espionage Embattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for...

Cilka's Journey is the million copy bestselling sequel to the phenomenon The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Don't miss the conclusion to The Tattooist of Auschwitz Trilogy, Three Sisters . Available now....

'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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Stella Rimington writes: 'Nothing in my life ever turned out as expected. Having originally chosen a safe career, I ended up as leader of one of the country's intelligence agencies...

"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 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...

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...

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,...

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...

'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...