Intelligence & Espionage

THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER 'Reads like a thriller... I couldn't put Max Hastings's new book down' DAILY MAIL 'Hastings is a master of drama, a writer intimately...

'Five stars. One of the best books I've read in a very, very long time' James O'Brien, LBC'This is first class' The Times'A highly accomplished novel from a new writer of great promise' Financial Times'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time'A...

'Gripping, moving and important' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Clare Mulley tells the tale of the remarkable Elzbieta Zawacka with flare, passion and insight' James Holland'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading' Hallie RubenholdThis is the...

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Barry Broman joined the CIA in 1971 straight out of the Marine Corps, choosing a career in intelligence largely because he wanted to spend his working life in Southeast Asia. Over the next thirty years, he had the privilege of working with brave men and...

'As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times 'Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph ...

The British government's top secret Code & Cypher School at Bletchley Park, otherwise known as Station X, was the unlikely setting for one of the most vital undercover operations of the Second World War. It was at Bletchley in present-day Milton Keynes...

The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5'The book we...

'David Omand is exactly the man you need in a crisis' RORY STEWART From the former Director of GCHQ comes a guide to surviving crises using the latest intelligence strategiesWar, terrorism, cyberattack, climate change, the threat of AI: it has never been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910860021Author Philip ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint The Pool of London PressPublisher The Pool of London Press

BESTSELLER An explosive expose of how British military intelligence really works, from the inside. The stories of two undercover agents -- Brian Nelson, who worked for the Force Research Unit (FRU), aiding loyalist terrorists and murderers in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783988320049Author Sue DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Vine Leaves PressPublisher Vine Leaves Press

If you loved American Sniper you will love Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda. Award-winning journalist Sean Naylor, an eyewitness to the action, vividly portrays the fight for Afghanistan's most hostile battleground. At dawn...

The incredible story of the "Robin Hood of the Seas," who absconded with millions during the Golden Age of Piracy and who harbored an even greater secret.Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from a Mughal ship off the coast of India and then vanished...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735242067Author Nahlah AyedFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

The incredible true story of the only woman to have worked during the Second World War as a codebreaker at both Bletchley Park and the Pentagon Betty Webb is the only surviving codebreaker to have worked on both Nazi and Japanese codes at Bletchley...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088216231Author Ltg (Ret ) Michael T FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 152mm *...

The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS's wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. ...

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The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5'The book we...

The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS's wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. ...

'David Omand is exactly the man you need in a crisis' Rory Stewart'An extraordinary achievement. Probably the best book ever written on crisis management' Christopher Andrew, author of Defence of the RealmWe never know when a crisis might explode. Some...

The remarkable story of how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar-and diplomacy-to thwart Iran's development of nuclear weapons and, in the process, reshaped the Middle East.Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare,...

Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and co. - espionage is not just a boys' game. As long as there has been conflict, there have been female agents behind the scenes. In Belgium and northern France in 1914-18 there were...

'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative' Mail on Sunday; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good read' John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a detailed, highly professional account' Sir John Scarlett, former MI6...

Spying, the "world's second oldest profession," is hardly limited to the traditional great power countries. Intelligence Elsewhere, nevertheless, is the first scholarly volume to deal exclusively with the comparative study of national...

'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative' Mail on Sunday; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good read' John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a detailed, highly professional account' Sir John Scarlett, former MI6...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976200024Author Paul SchatzkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Embassy Books & LaundryPublisher Embassy Books & LaundryWeight(grams) 662g

On January 30, 1918, Lothar Witzke, the most dangerous German agent in the western hemisphere had reached his destination. His mission: to destroy American defense plants, organize strikes in critical industries, and at a time of intense racial unrest,...

In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545020Author Kristie MacrakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

O'Rourke's book offers a onestop shop for understanding foreignimposed regime change. Covert Regime Change is an impressive book and required reading for anyone interested in understanding hidden power in world politics. Political Science Quarterly ...

With many colourful anecdotes and vivid descriptions, this is the first authentic account of daily life at Government Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most successful intelligence agency in history. Described by Churchill as the 'secret...

'Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier' - Samuel JohnsonEveryone has heard of MI5 and MI6, but what about plain old MI? Jon Comyn had heard of it, but had no idea what they actually did. He had served in the infantry and even...

The Second World War saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict unlike any that had gone before it.At this time, no one in government was really aware of what MI5 and its...

The history of modern Russia traditionally has Communism at its centre: Lenin defines its rise, Gorbachev its fall, and Putin its aftermath. In this radical new history, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov, however, introduce a new historical axis: the...

The history of Enigma is of interest to many researchers and authors on an international scale. The capture and unraveling of the most hidden secret of the army of the Third Reich that was decisive for the fate of one of the greatest armed conflicts in...

Translated into English for the first time, this is a fascinating history of intelligence practices and their impact on great power rivalries in the early modern era In the sixteenth century, an intense rivalry between the Ottoman Empire and the...

This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the recent...

"A beguiling tale of espionage and double-dealing in the years leading up to World War II. ... Strap in for a narrative that demands a suspension of disbelief-and richly rewards it." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review); Best Books of February SelectionThe...