Espionage

The British Chieftain - designed in the late 1950s as the replacement for the Centurion - was perhaps the best main battle tank in service with Nato during the 1960s and 1970s. Its 120mm rifled main gun and advanced armour made it one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741153Author James BamfordFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm * 41mm

Some pundits claim cyber weaponry is the most important military innovation in decades, a transformative new technology that promises a paralyzing first-strike advantage difficult for opponents to deter. Yet, what is cyber strategy? How do actors use...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743274036Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

As part of the infamous Double Cross operation, Jewish double agent Renato Levi proved to be one of the Allies' most devastating weapons in the Second World War. ln 1941, with the help of Ml6, Levi built an extensive spy ring in North Africa and the...

New York Times Bestseller! By the author of A Man Called Intrepid. The story of Vera Atkins, legendary spy and holder of the Legion of HonorShe was stunning. She was ruthless. She was brilliant and had a will of iron. Born Vera Maria Rosenberg in...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735214286Author Mara HvistendahlFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

When the Cold War ended, the spying that marked the era did not. An incredible true story from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times bestselling author of Crazy.Between 1995 and 2000, "Comrade J" was the go-to man for SVR (the successor to the KGB)...

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...

There is a saying in Russian jails. Ne ver ne boysya ne prosi: don't trust, don't fear, don't beg. Don't trust because life here will always disappoint you. Don't fear because whatever you're scared of, you are powerless to prevent it. And don't beg...

This is a vivid account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by 'informing' on others, such as during the Cold War and the current campaign against terrorism. With "Snitch!", Steve Hewitt provides a thorough study of human informers, i...

Total Espionage was first published shortly before Pearl Harbor and is fresh in its style, retaining immediacy unpolluted by the knowledge of subsequent events. It tells how the whole apparatus of the Nazi state was geared towards war by its systematic...

In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinsky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case of the entire Cold War. The publicity stirred up by...

These essays from a diverse group of distinguished contributors deepen our understanding of the new national security threats posed by terrorism, by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and by the spread of Islamic extremism. They examine...

The shocking true story of international intrigue -"a highly detailed, engrossing work" (Kirkus Reviews)-involving the 1993 murder of CIA officer Freddie Woodruff by KGB agents and the extensive cover-up that followed in Washington and in Moscow. "In a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060921781Author Christopher AndrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time. Why did we ever start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years ago...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615941486Author Brian SolonFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Ames Alley PressPublisher Ames Alley PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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For forty years the Central Intelligence Agency has published an in-house journal, Studies in Intelligence, for CIA eyes only. Now the agency has declassified much of this material. This engrossing book, which presents the most interesting articles from...

The secret world of military intelligence - written by a senior intelligence officerJohn Hughes-Wilson is a former intelligence officer and is ideally placed to reveal the secret history of military intelligence. He takes us 'behind the scenes' of...

History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more- and less- than a fixer of...

In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely-they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And they were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a...

Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life for more than four decades, symbolized most visibly by the much revered Dalai Lama. But the story of Tibetan resistance weaves a far richer tapestry than anyone might...

On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte DorA (c)e station in the Paris MA (c)tro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer...

On a warm Saturday night in July 1973 in Bethesda, Maryland, a gunman stepped out from behind a tree and fired five point-blank shots into Joe Alon, an unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot and family man. Alon's sixteen-year-old neighbor, Fred Burton, was...

A gripping feat of reportage that exposes-for the first time in English-the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official who spied for Israel, offering new insight into the turbulent modern history of the Middle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504049368Author Robert LindseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 359Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media

The mind is the only weapon that a spy is guaranteed to discharge on a daily basis. If you can adopt the principles described in this book, you may not be ready to single-handedly take down a supervillain, but you will be better prepared to counter the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335449887Author Jim PopkinFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802271072Author Christopher SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Christopher SpencerPublisher Christopher SpencerWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

In this revealing memoir, the CIA's most important spymaster provides an insider's view of American intelligence activities during a pivotal period in history. The author tells of the personalities, policies, and historical forces that influenced events...

The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong likelihood that the trail of devastation will lead back to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335017550Author Jim PopkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 272g

Cold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the opportunity to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. As the Prague winter slowly eases into a Prague spring, it...

Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying heavily on human modes of data collection in the form of informants. To date little is known about the...

"Probably the most eye-opening and engrossing expose to date of the bizarre 'power games' played by multinational corporations and tycoons." -Publishers Weekly A classic of investigative reporting, Spooks is a treasure trove of who-shot-who research on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785372100Author Sean HartnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press