Intelligence & Espionage

We are living in an age of conspiracy theories, whether it's enduring, widely held beliefs such as government involvement in the Kennedy assassination or alien activity at Roswell, fears of a powerful infiltrating group such as the Illuminati, Jews,...

This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States. Much of the canonical literature on civil-military relations was either written during or references the Cold War, while other major research focuses on the post-Cold War era,...

UPDATED EDITION of the ground-breaking 2017 publication that offered the first comprehensive account of the work of Section D of the Secret Intelligence Service. When Neville Chamberlain made his famous 'Peace in Our Time' statement in 1938, he may...

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Politicians, pundits, and Pentagon officials are singing the praises of a kinder, gentler American counterinsurgency. Some claim that counterinsurgency is so sophisticated and effective that it is the 'graduate level of war'. Private military contracting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062123411Author Michael Bar-ZoharFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635578492Author Nicole PerlrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Both the Special Operations Forces (SOF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have served as the nation's eyes, ears, and daggers, often in close cooperation but occasionally at cross-purposes throughout their histories. In this book, Thomas H...

Several months after a 2014 operation in the Gaza Strip, fifty-three Israeli Defense Forces combatants and combat-support soldiers were awarded military decorations for exhibiting extraordinary bravery. From a gendered perspective, the most noteworthy...

This book examines how key developments in international relations in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their oversight.Since the turn of the millennium, intelligence agencies have been operating in a tense and rapidly changing...

Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous...

This book discusses the application of hypothesis testing to the practice of intelligence analysis.By drawing on longstanding procedures of scientific method, particularly hypothesis testing, this book strongly critiques standard intelligence analytic...

The original edition of A Season of Inquiry, first published in 1986, offered the public an insider's account of the workings of the Church investigation and of the nation's espionage agencies, including the CIA's covert action against the democratically...

Early in the morning of 18 May 1942, three Dutchmen were captured in the North Sea and taken to MI5. It soon became clear that one in particular, Johannes Marinus Dronkers, was no mere refugee escaping the Nazi occupation. He had a hidden agenda: to...

A Classic in Counter intelligence - Now Back in Print . Originally published in 1987, "Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad" is a unique primer that teaches the principles, strategy, and tradecraft of counter-intelligence (CI). CI is often misunderstood...

Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals that globalisation - the influx of foreign students and professors and the outflow of Americans for study, teaching, and conferences abroad - has transformed U.S. higher education into a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525558606Author Michael V. HaydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

To solve this case, only an outsider will do... Ingo Finch faces his biggest challenge yet.New York, 1904 - over a thousand are dead after the sinking of the General Slocum, a pleasure steamer full of German immigrants out for a day on the East River...

Intelligence was just as important in the Napoleonic Wars as it is today. Then there was only one way of obtaining it by spies and informers. The Author uses first hand accounts of three of Wellingtons most daring and successful Intelligence Officers...

One man's truth. A nation's downfall.Speedbird 117, a Boeing 787 flight to New York, takes off like any other flight from Heathrow. Except this plane will never reach its destination. The cause? Taher, an utterly ruthless terrorist with a score to settle...

In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the...

It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets.The massive armies of...

Now in its Seventh Edition, Robert M. Clark's Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach once again delivers a consistent, clear method for teaching intelligence analysis, demonstrating how a collaborative, target-centric approach leads to sharper...

This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework. The volume responds to three key problems...

As John le Carre's fictional intelligence men admit, it was the case histories - constructed narratives serving shifting agendas - that shaped the British intelligence machine, rather than their personal experience of secret operations.Secret History...

James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and others, Klugmann was the man who manipulated promising recruits deemed ripe for conversion to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907521041Author Richard J. HeuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Books Express PublishingPublisher Books Express PublishingWeight(grams)...

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We Know All About You shows how bulk spying came of age in the nineteenth century, and supplies the first overarching narrative and interpretation of what has happened since, covering the agencies, programs, personalities, technology, leaks, criticisms...

Was Philip de Laszlo a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, who painted such luminaries as the...

The study of strategic surprise has long concentrated on important failures that resulted in catastrophes such as Pearl Harbor and the September 11th attacks, and the majority of previously published research in the field determines that such large-scale...

The clock is ticking. Will Aidan Snow be able to save the world, before it's too late? In Ukraine, MI6 operative Aidan Snow rescues a British national held by Russian insurgents. In the United States, a terrorist attack is thwarted...

This is the true story of the Englishman allegedly freed from a French prison after meeting John Amery, the treacherous son of a Cabinet minister, and sent back to Britain to spy - only to be caught, prosecuted and hanged as a traitor. In November...

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on United States soil, the intelligence community has been scrutinized on how it performs its functions. Consequently, the 9/11 Commission made several recommendations on how to improve the quality of...

During the critical summer months of 1943, Noor Inayat Khan was the only wireless operator transmitting secret messages from Nazi-occupied France to the Special Operations Executive in Britain. As the daughter of an Indian mystic, brought up in a...

MSNBC counterterrorism analyst and New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Nance was the first person to blow the whistle on Russia's hacking of the 2016 election and to reveal Vladmir Putin's masterplan.Now, in THE PLOT TO COMMIT TREASON, Nance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932367235Author Servando GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint El Gato Tuerto, Ediciones, Div of IntelinetPublisher El Gato Tuerto, Ediciones,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lionel Gelber Prize and New York Times Notable Book and Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction).Book InformationISBN 9780143034667Author Steve CollFormat PaperbackPage Count...

WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service's most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536387Author JPat BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd