Intelligence & Espionage

Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of 1916-21. Drawing principally on primary sources, Bell brings to light for the...

In this compelling investigation, author Michael Smith explores the critical moment in a spy's life: that split-second decision to embrace a double life; to cheat and hide and hurt; to risk disgrace - even death - without any guarantee of being rewarded...

Russian annexation of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world by surprise. The capabilities and efficiency of Moscow's armed forces during both operations signalled to the world that Russia was back in business as a significant...

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER.There has never been a more important political investigation than Robert S. Mueller III's into President Donald Trump's possible collusion with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991569212Author Bayard And HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bayard & Holmes, LimitedPublisher Bayard & Holmes, LimitedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062488039Author Richard A ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

In 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and the Japanese. The story of Chinese spies has been a global one from the start. Unearthing previously...

This book is an in-depth examination of the relations between Ireland and the former East Germany between the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It explores political, diplomatic, economic, media and cultural issues. The long...

A must-have gift for anyone interested in investigative journalism. The Sunday Times Insight team is famous for its investigative journalism. This book profiles the major stories - often a result of years of work and painstaking investigation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474441162Author Clive JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Signals Intelligence, or SIGINT, is the interception and evaluation of coded enemy messages. From Enigma to Ultra, Purple to Lorenz, Room 40 to Bletchley, SIGINT has been instrumental in both victory and defeat during the First and Second World War. In...

An assessment of Russia that suggests that we should look beyond traditional means of power to understand its strength and capacity to disrupt international politics. Too often, we are told that Russia plays a weak hand well. But, perhaps the nations...

'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The Times'A truly astonishing story, meticulously and brilliantly told' Philippe Sands, author of The RatlineRESISTANCE,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123378Author Henry A. CrumptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)...

At an auction in Edinburgh in 2010, the sale of an old walking stick belonging to a British officer, Captain Gill, shed new light on one of the mysterious crimes of the Victorian era. Captain William Gill and his companions, the noted Arabist Professor...

The intelligence failures exposed by the events of 9/11 and the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have made one thing perfectly clear: change is needed in how the U.S. intelligence community operates. "Transforming U.S. Intelligence" argues...

The amount of publicly and often freely available information is staggering. Yet, the intelligence community still continues to collect and use information in the same manner as during WWII, when the OSS set out to learn as much as possible about Nazi...

In 1967 the magazine Ramparts ran an expose revealing that the Central Intelligence Agency had been secretly funding and managing a wide range of citizen front groups intended to counter communist influence around the world. In addition to embarrassing...

Written by the renowned expert Nigel West, this book exposes the operations of Britain's overseas intelligence-gathering organisation, the famed Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, and traces its origins back to its inception in 1909. In this meticulously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060564100Author Billy WaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Based on 20 years of research, Gianluca Barneschi has uncovered the true story of a real-life James Bond. The debonair Special Operations Executive agent Richard 'Dick' Mallaby was the first Briton to be sent to Italy as an SOE operative, parachuted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954357198Author James HepburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint New FrontiersPublisher New FrontiersWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

The global history of oil politics, from World War I to the present, can teach us much about world politics, climate change, and international order in the twenty-first century. When and why does international order change? The largest peaceful...

'A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties ... remarkable' 5* review, Telegraph On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Bleriot, in this bestseller, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on...

This topical volume offers a comprehensive review of secret intelligence organizations and activities. Intelligence has been in the news consistently since 9/11 and the Iraqi WMD errors. Leading experts in the field approach the three major missions of...

In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of agencies playing fast and loose; a secret government lodged inside the one they knew that even the president didn't fully control. Almost half a century later,...

A well-informed defector is the most dangerous counter-intelligence commodity because it takes a spy to catch a spy. Very occasionally, an agent, especially a mole or an intelligence professional, will make a mistake and incriminate themselves, but...

The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers The Isokon building, Lawn Road Flats, in Belsize Park on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853185802Author Josef WagesFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Lewis MasonicPublisher Lewis Masonic

"Often reads like the latest entry from Ludlum or Le Carre . . . fascinating."-Book News, Inc.A true story that pulls no punches, Enter the Past Tense also chronicles Haas's descent into, and recovery from, alcoholism that resulted from the stress of...

This book examines intelligence analysis in the digital age and demonstrates how intelligence has entered a new era.While intelligence is an ancient activity, the digital age is a relatively new phenomenon. This volume uses the concept of the "digital...

Modern historians have consistently condemned the Abwehr, Germany's military intelligence service, and its SS equivalent, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), as incompetent and even corrupt organizations. However, newly declassified MI5, CIA and US...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528718929Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109983Author Michael V. HaydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This book tells the story of the various Allied operations and schemes instigated to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII, which included the widespread bribery of high ranking Spanish officials and the duplicity of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737971Author Jamie GaskarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070692Author Kevin WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expensive high-tech weapons. The space and nuclear arms control regimes are...

The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over sixty years...

An in-depth analysis of why COVID-19 warnings failed and how to avert the next disaster Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but in the end global surveillance and warning systems...