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Cold War Boys Overseas: True Tales by Those Who Served with the Royal
Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, the RAF had several major bases worldwide largely in those areas where the service had been based during the inter-war years....
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue
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The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired the critically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, and co-starring John...
The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain...
Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to
A global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War II origins to today's threats from rogue states. For fifty years, the United States has monitored friends and foes...
Castles Made of Sand: A Century of Anglo-American Espionage and
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"Extensively researched--with detailed source notes and an expansive bibliography--and cogently argued, Gerolymatos's study of diplomacy by espionage is timely and instructive." - Publishers Weekly With roots in imperialism and the...
Spymaster
Taking the reader into the very heart of the Soviet spy apparatus at the peak of the defining event of our time - the Cold War, this book is by...
Enemies: A History of the FBI
This title offers the epic, disturbing story of how the FBI is America's real secret service. "Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. The hand of...
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
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An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book...
The Entity: Five Centuries of Secret Vatican Espionage
The Holy Alliance, later 'The Entity', a secret spy service, has been used by the Vatican for over five centuries to carry out its will. Forty popes have relied on...
With Britain in Mortal Danger: Britain's Secret Army
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In 1938 the War Office ordered the Director of Military Intelligence to create a unit that would research the tactics and organisation needed in the event of an invasion. After...
My Mother, The Spy: The daring and tragic double life of ASIO agent
'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...
Espionage: An A-Z of Spies and Secrets
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Failure to foresee and defend against the US terrorist attacks of 11th September 2001 has drawn unprecedented public attention to the intelligence services and modern-day global espionage. From the CIA's...
Six: A History of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service
Six tells the complete story of the service's birth and early years, including the tragic, untold tale of what happened to Britain's extensive networks in Soviet Russia between the wars....
Spy On The Roof Of The World
When Sydney Wignall set off on a climbing expedition to the Himalayas in the 1950s, little did he realise that he was embarking on an extraordinary and life-threatening adventure which...
The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third
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In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West remained a secret until the publication of The Sword and the Shield in...
The CIA: An Imperial History
' 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...
Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
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...
Ultimate Spy
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
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...
On Secret Service East of Constantinople
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...
White Mouse
Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen...
The Venlo Sting: MI6's Deadly Fiasco
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
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...
Pistols! Treason! Murder!
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...
Kitty Harris: The Spy with 17 Names
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
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...
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
This is popular WW2 history at its heart-stopping best, fuelled by an incredible, previously untold story of the Jewish refugees who fought in Britain's most secretive special-forces unit THE UNTOLD...
Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding
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...
A Dangerous Game
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The Spymaster of Baghdad: The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS
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Enemies: A History of the FBI
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Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
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Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do about It
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Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America
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K. G. B.: The Inside Story
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A Spy Alone: For fans of Damascus Station and Slow Horses
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Agent Undercover
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The Alternative in Eastern Europe
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In Anger: Culture in the Cold War 1945-60
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The March Wind
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The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
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Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy
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Green Beret, Red Star
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The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War
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Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
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Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story
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The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War
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News Of A Kidnapping
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