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Tactical Questioning by Richard Norton-Taylor
Booksplease Price: £13.05On 14 September 2003, at the Haitham Hotel in Basra, Iraq, Baha Mousa and nine others were arrested by the British Army as suspected insurgents. Two days later Baha Mousa was dead. A post-mortem... -
Colour of Justice by Richard Norton-Taylor
Booksplease Price: £14.45In 1993, black teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack by a gang of white youths. The police investigation failed to provide sufficient evidence to convict. Based on the... -
Bloody Sunday by Richard Norton-Taylor 9781840025682
Booksplease Price: £12.78Sunday 30th January 1972: 13 civil rights marchers were shot dead, and another 13 wounded when British soldiers opened fire during an anti-internment civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern... -
The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.54Richard Norton-Taylor reveals the secrets of his forty-year career as a journalist covering the world of spies and their masters in Whitehall. Early in his career, Norton-Taylor successfully... -
Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry by Richard Norton-Taylor
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.12Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry is a verbatim reconstruction of the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry. Using only the words spoken at the Inquiry, the play deals predominantly with... -
The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor 9781350381933
Booksplease Price: £14.37Described by a former senior Intelligence official as a 'long-term thorn in the side of the intelligence establishment', Richard Norton-Taylor reveals the secrets of his forty-year career as a... -
Justifying War: Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry by Richard Norton-Taylor 9781840024173
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.97Although primarily focusing on the reported suicide of Dr. David Kelly, the Hutton Inquiry has revealed much of the inner workings of Downing Street, the Ministry of Defense and the BBC. Witnesses... -
GRENFELL: SYSTEM FAILURE: Scenes from the Inquiry Richard Norton-Taylor (Author, Journalist) 9781350401501
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Grenfell: System Failure asks further vital questions raised by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry since the critically acclaimed 2021 play Grenfell: Value Engineering. Based entirely on the words of... -
Called to Account: The Indictment of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair for the Crime of Aggression Aga... by Richard Norton-Taylor 9781840027457
Booksplease Price: £14.45In 2006, two leading barristers: Philippe Sands QC (for the prosecution) and Julian Knowles (for the defence) tested the evidence of the grounds for an indictment of the British Prime Minister for... -
Verbatim, Verbatim: Contemporary Documentary Theatre Will Hammond 9781840026979
Booksplease Price: £17.55Five specially commissioned discussions of verbatim theatre - in the words of the people who make it. 'What a verbatim play does is flash your research nakedly. It's like cooking a meal but the... -
Radio Redux: Freedom on the Airwaves by Jo Glanville 9780857021557
Booksplease Price: £16.53We can't do without radio. However many new forms of mass communication are invented, the grandmother of them all remains indispensable. From Peru to Jordan, it's radio journalists who are often the... -
The Politics of Lying: Implications for Democracy by Lionel Cliffe 9780333717387
Booksplease Price: £92.04This book provides the first attempt to synthesise what is a pervasive phenomenon, and one that is mentioned tangentially in many political analyses, but nowhere receives the systematic and... -
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews 9781350405233
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.88James 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... -
Mission Accomplished? by Simon Jenkins
Booksplease Price: £22.64Why do politicians send troops to foreign soil, to fight battles they rarely win? Is it old-fashioned imperialism tainted with a crusader complex? Or is the West a partisan for the helpless? The fall... -
Deception in High Places: A History of Bribery in Britain's Arms Trade Nicholas Gilby 9780745334271
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.60Deception in High Places reveals the corruption endemic in Britain's biggest arms deals over the last fifty years. Based on painstaking research in government archives, collections of private and... -
Deception in High Places: A History of Bribery in Britain's Arms Trade by Nicholas Gilby 9780745334264
Booksplease Price: £26.80Deception in High Places reveals the corruption endemic in Britain's biggest arms deals over the last fifty years. Based on painstaking research in government archives, collections of private and... -
England’S Military Heartland: Preparing for War on Salisbury Plain Vron Ware 9781526174833
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £80.07What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? England's military heartland provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, drawing on a wide range... -
England’S Military Heartland: Preparing for War on Salisbury Plain Vron Ware 9781526174840
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.77What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? England's military heartland provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, drawing on a wide range... -
Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies Gordon Corera 9781780227849
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The computer was born to spy, and now computers are transforming espionage. But who are the spies and who is being spied on in today's interconnected world? This is the exhilarating secret history... -
Soldier: The Autobiography by Mike Jackson 9780552156028
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78General Sir Mike Jackson's illustrious career in the British Army has spanned almost 45 years and all that time he has shown loyalty, courage and commitment to the British army whilst also being an... -
Ricin!: The Inside Story of the Terror Plot That Never Was by Lawrence Archer 9780745329277
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In January 2003, the British media splashed the news that anti-terror police had disrupted an Al-Qaeda cell, poised to unleash the deadly poison ricin on the capital. Police had reportedly found... -
Agent Moliere: The Life of John Cairncross, the Fifth Man of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £28.62The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone and was driven by his hostility to Fascism rather than... -
Agent Molière: The Life of John Cairncross, the Fifth Man of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews 9781350384866
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.88The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone and was driven by his hostility to Fascism rather than... -
The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine by Andrew Cockburn 9781839763687
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Fully updated from the original edition. As the retreat from Kabul shows, America goes to war not to bring democracy, or glory, but in the pursuit of profit. In The Spoils of War, leading Washington... -
Striking Back: How the West is Failing on National Security by Lucas Kello
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.00Faced with relentless technological aggression that imperils democracy, how can Western nations fight back? Before the cyber age, foreign interference in democratic politics played out in a... -
Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield by Martin Pearce
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief'Richard Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorSir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer's son from a... -
The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective by Sir Hew Strachan 9781107047853
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £75.82The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the... -
Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master by Paddy Hayes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The only biography of Britain's celebrated female spy - now fully updated with previously classified materials. From being raised in a Tanzanian shack, to attaining MI6's most senior operational... -
The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.00The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the... -
Secrecy and the Media: The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System by Nicholas John Wilkinson 9780415453752
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.58Secrecy and the Media is the first book to examine the development of the D-Notice system, which regulates the UK media's publication of British national security secrets. It is based on official... -
Secrecy and the Media: The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System Nicholas John Wilkinson 9781138873506
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Secrecy and the Media is the first book to examine the development of the D-Notice system, which regulates the UK media's publication of British national security secrets. It is based on official... -
Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac 9780198784593
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £21.76British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets from the... -
Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.13Disrupt and Deny is the untold story behind Britain's secret scheming against both enemies and friends from 1945 to the present day. British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in... -
The Changing of the Guard: the British army since 9/11 by Simon Akam
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01A TLS and a Prospect Book of the Year A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century the British Army fought in Iraq and... -
The Changing of the Guard: the British army since 9/11 by Simon Akam 9781913348489
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91A TLS and a Prospect Book of the Year A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Britain has changed enormously. During this... -
The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together by Michael Smith 9781471186813
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative' Mail on Sunday; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good read' John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a detailed,...