Vincent Hardy & J-F Bouchard, 2019. — 60 p. The word tradecraft itself, although once used to describe the corpus of knowledge one must possess to practice some given trade, has now become the term mostly used to describe the tricks of the spy's trade, even making archaic the more descriptive term “spycraft”. What you are learning from SpyLingo are real-world terms used by spies...
Crux Publishing, 2017. — 491 p. A classic international spy story from true life, this riveting, completely revised and updated edition of Unholy Trinity recounts one of the darkest tales of World War II. Written by the co-authors of The Secret War Against the Jews, it details the Vatican’s espionage alliance with British, French, and American intelligence. Abandoning justice...
US Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 289 p. It can be argued that the Middle East during the World War II has been regarded as that conflict's most overlooked theater of operations. Though the threat of direct Axis invasion never materialized beyond the Egyptian Western Desert with Rommel's Afrika Korps, this did not limit the Axis from probing the Middle East and cultivating...
Routledge, 2021. — 208 p. This book reveals how counterterrorism discourses and practices became the main tool of a systematic violation of human rights in Egypt after the Arab Uprising. It examines how the civic and democratic uprising in Egypt turned into robust authoritarianism under the pretence of counterterrorism and the ‘war on terror’. By interrogating Egypt’s...
Endeavour Press, 2016. — 420 p. Special forces are in the vanguard of modern warfare. The names of their battlegrounds are familiar. Vietnam. Mogadishu. Kabul. The Iranian Embassy. Banjul. The Falklands. Grenada. Surgical strike or counter-terrorist operation, training guerrillas or quashing coups, time has proven that even the smallest number of these highly-trained operatives...
Lume Books, 2017. — 305 p. The most important recruit to the KGB since Kim Philby. Aldrich Ames was a downwardly mobile CIA officer with a serious inferiority complex, and an even more serious drink problem. But his betrayal would make him a multimillionaire, cause the death of at least ten of America’s best agents, and single-handedly destroy a superpower’s Cold War...
Endeavour Media, 2017. — 433 p. The end of the Cold War threw the world’s intelligence agencies into turmoil. Post Ames, the old security of a superpower confrontation had vanished and with the new world order came a search for a new identity and purpose for the global intelligence community. At stake was a $50 billion international industry employing a million people. With...
Routledge, 2014. — 179 p. Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond looks at the many events, personalities, and controversies in the field of intelligence and espionage since the end of World War II. A crucial but often neglected topic, strategic intelligence took on added significance during the protracted struggle of the Cold War. In this accessible volume, Jefferson...
Westview Press, 1984. — 295 p. From the Great Purges in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s to the bloody elite purges in Eastern Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s to the mass terrorism in Cambodia in the middle 1970s, the role of terror and the secret police in Communist politics has been powerful and highly visible. This book reviews the surprisingly sparse literature...
Robert Laffont, 2017. — 304 p. Au terme de cinq années d'enquête entre Paris, Washington, Moscou et Tel-Aviv, la journaliste Chloé Aeberhardt a retrouvé la trace des espionnes des principaux services de renseignement engagés dans la guerre froide. Ces retraités de la CIA, du KGB, du MI5, de la DST ou du Mossad l'ont reçue chez elles et lui ont raconté le rôle décisif qu'elles...
Dodd Mead, 1985. — 165 p. Easy to read and follow, Mr. Agoston guides you through what happened at the finish of World War II that cost the USA some potentially valuable secrets from Hitler's secret weapons programs. I found the story of what happened with Dr. Voss just missing alerting the US special forces in time to prevent the loss of truckloads of secrets going to the...
New York: Routledge, 2002. — 363 p. In recent years the importance of Signals Intelligence (Sigint) has become more prominent, especially the capabilities of reading and deciphering diplomatic, military and commercial communications of other nations. This work reveals the role of intercepting messages during the Cold War. Foreword List of Illustrations Introduction: The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 452 p. This book is a comparative study of terrorism and counterterrorism in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. It explores the history and contemporary developments of terrorism, especially Islamist terrorism, in these two Sunni Muslim-majority countries. In doing so, it analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of governments’ policies, strategies, and models...
Times Books, 1997. — 432 p. Ted Hall was a physics prodigy so gifted that he was asked to join the Manhattan Project when he was only eighteen years old. There, in wartime Los Alamos, working under Robert Oppenheimer and Bruno Rossi, Hall helped build the atomic bomb. To his friends and coworkers he was a brilliant young rebel with a boundless future in atomic science. To his...
Overlook Books, 2002. — 765 p. Paranoia with respect to Russia raged in the wake of World War II, just as Churchill had foreseen: fear of a "nuclear Pearl Harbor" and the growing challenge of political stability in Europe gripped the Western world. The advent of new and terrifying weapons of war and annihilation-atomic bombs, biological and chemical weapons, and...
Routledge, 2020. — 679 p. — Second edition. The second edition of Secret Intelligence: A Reader brings together key essays from the field of intelligence studies, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and ongoing debates about the future of intelligence. Secret intelligence has never enjoyed a higher profile. The...
Routledge, 2000. — 307 p. A range of clandestine Cold War activities in Asia, from Western Special Services intelligence and propaganda to special operations and security support from 1945 to 1965, is examined here. The contributions draw on newly-opened archives and a two-day conference on the subject.
Routledge, 1998. — 320 p. Little attention has been paid to the murky, ultra-business of gathering intelligence among and forming estimates about friendly powers, and friendly or allied military forces. How rarely have scholars troubled to discover when states entered into coalitions or alliances mainly and explicitly because their intelligence evaluation of the potential...
University of Michigan Press, 2002. — 425 p. The tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the consequent "war on terrorism" have made the question of effective counterterrorism policy a growing public concern. The original essays in Combating Terrorism offer a unique overview and evaluation of the counterterrorism policies of ten countries: the United States, Argentina, Peru,...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 308 p. This groundbreaking book explores the treatment of the millions of refugees and tens of thousands of spies that flooded Germany after World War II. Drawing on newly declassified espionage files, Keith R. Allen uncovers long-hidden interrogation systems that were developed by Germany’s western occupiers to protect internal...
Allen Press, 2012. — 682 p. The simple fact is that they admitted it. They had to after being caught red handed. The evidence did not sink to the bottom of the Mediterranean and there were witnesses. The Israeli government admitted to the June 8, 1967 attack by Israeli Defense Forces on the American "spy" ship USS Liberty. The Liberty was a SIGINT or signals intelligence...
National Geographic Society, 2008. — 320 p. Culled from archives around the world, the 50 documents in Declassified illuminate the secret and often inaccessible stories of agents, espionage, and behind-the-scenes events that played critical roles in American history. Moving through time from Elizabethan England to the Cold War and beyond, noted author Tom Allen places each...
University Press of Kansas, 2002. — 289 p. Revered by millions, the Papacy is an international power that many nations have viewed with suspicion, some have tried to control, and not a few have spied upon. Ranging across two centuries of world history, David Alvarez's fascinating study throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal the startling but little-known world of espionage...
Tafelberg, 2019. — 295 p. What does it take to deceive those closest to you? How do you lead a double life and not lose yourself? Is there ever a point of return? These are the themes – and more – that Jonathan Ancer explores as he tells the tales of some of South Africa’s most unusual and successful spies: from the navy superspy on the Russian payroll to the party girl who...
Routledge, 2021. — 144 р. Despite publicity given to the successes of British and American codebreakers during the Second World War, the study of signals intelligence is still complicated by governmental secrecy over even the most elderly peacetime sigint. This book, first published in 1986, lifts the veil on some of these historical secrets. Christopher Andrew and Keith...
Macmillan Education, 1984. — 305 p. Introduction. Japanese Intelligence and the Approach of the Russo-Japanese War. Codebreakers and Foreign Offices: The French, British and American Experience. British Intelligence in Ireland, 1914–1921. British Military and Economic Intelligence: Assessments of Nazi Germany Before the Second World War. Flashes of Intelligence: The Foreign...
Random House, 2021. — 288 p. A vastly entertaining and unique history of the interaction between spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond. A treasure trove of human ingenuity. Written by two experts in their fields, Stars and Spies is the first history of the extraordinary connections between the intelligence services and show business. We travel...
Anthem Press, 2017. — 375 p. The collection of essays in Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe addresses institutions that develop the concept of collaboration, and examines the function, social representation and history of secret police archives and institutes of national memory that create these histories of collaboration. The...
London: Frank Cass, 2003. — 338 p. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It was an event of major historic and global dimensions, yet it took the entire world totally by surprise. In this book, the authors interview dozens of people who dealt with Soviet affairs in the 1980s, all of who admit to having been caught off guard.
Routledge, 2017. — 308 p. The Treaty on the European Union stipulates that one of the key objectives of the Union is to provide citizens with a high level of safety within an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Given that the fight against terrorism is a prominent aspect of this general objective, it is remarkable that, in spite of its political relevance and decade-long...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, 2020. — 219 p. Human rights organizations. Hackers. Soviet dissidents. Animal welfare activists. Corruption-reporting apps. The world of whistleblowing is much more diverse than most people realize. It includes the prototypical whistleblowers—government and corporate employees who spill their organizations' secrets to publicize abuses, despite...
Pegasus Books, 2022. — 335 p. The shocking history of the espionage and infiltration of American media during WWI and the man who exposed it. A man who was not who he claimed to be. Russia was not the first foreign power to subvert American popular opinion from inside. In the lead-up to America’s entry into the First World War, Germany spent the modern equivalent of one billion...
Harper Collins, 2016. — 400 p. Game of Spies uncovers a lethal spy triangle at work during the Second World War. The story centres on three men – on British, one French and one German – and the duels they fought out in an atmosphere of collaboration, betrayal and assassination, in which comrades sold fellow comrades, Allied agents and downed pilots to the Germans, as casually...
Frontline Books, 2017. — 150 p. In the lead-up to the Second World War, Ashe Lincoln, a junior barrister, had enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant. On the outbreak of war he became determined to serve at sea and was posted to minelayers. But a mysterious midnight summons sent him hurrying from his ship to the Admiralty in London and a top-secret...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 302 p. This comparative study explores the involvement of the United States in four successful military coups in Turkey and Pakistan during the Cold War. Focusing on military-to-military relations with the US in each country, the book offers insight into how external actors can impact the outcomes of coups, particularly through socialization via...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 272 p. Covert operations and ingenious weapons for irregular warfare were developed rapidly, and with great success, by the British during the Second World War, and the story of the most famous organizations involved like SOE, the SAS and Section D of SIS is now well known, but Military Intelligence (Research), the smallest but one of the most...
Chicago Review Press, 2019. — 224 p. Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator sent into occupied France and transferred crucial messages to the Resistance. Johtje Vos, a Dutch housewife, hid Jews in her home and repeatedly outsmarted the Gestapo. Law student Hannie Schaft became involved in the most dangerous resistance work—sabotage, weapons transference, and...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2014. — 216 p. As a British airman of the Second World War, Jim Auton dropped bombs on enemy targets all over central and eastern Europe. He was also engaged in a number of low flying operations, organized in order to drop containers of explosives and ammunition in an effort to assist groups of partisans in enemy occupied countries. After the war, he was...
Algora Publishing, 2006. — 258 p. Surveillance of private citizens is increasing in the US and abroad. This book explores the frontiers of legal theory within the United States with regards to modern surveillance and its effects on human rights. Alexander Avakov briefly shares his personal experiences, first in the Soviet Union with the KGB and then with the American national...
Hachette Books, 2022. — 261 p. The explosive, never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA, revealing how spies blinded the US to the rise of Putin and Russia’s dangerous future, from New York Times bestselling author and former CIA officer Robert Baer. We think we know all the Cold War’s greatest spy stories. The tales of America’s...
Hachette Books, 2022. — 261 p. The explosive, never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA, revealing how spies blinded the US to the rise of Putin and Russia’s dangerous future, from New York Times bestselling author and former CIA officer Robert Baer. We think we know all the Cold War’s greatest spy stories. The tales of America’s...
Hachette Books, 2022. — 261 p. The explosive, never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA, revealing how spies blinded the US to the rise of Putin and Russia’s dangerous future, from New York Times bestselling author and former CIA officer Robert Baer. We think we know all the Cold War’s greatest spy stories. The tales of America’s...
Hachette Books, 2022. — 261 p. The explosive, never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA, revealing how spies blinded the US to the rise of Putin and Russia’s dangerous future, from New York Times bestselling author and former CIA officer Robert Baer. We think we know all the Cold War’s greatest spy stories. The tales of America’s...
Hachette Books, 2022. — 304 p. The explosive, never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA, revealing how spies blinded the US to the rise of Putin and Russia’s dangerous future, from New York Times bestselling author and former CIA officer Robert Baer. We think we know all the Cold War’s greatest spy stories. The tales of America’s...
New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2007. — 313 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-12198-8. In this rapid-paced book, a former CIA chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the Nosenko affair has inspired debate for...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. — 336 p. No American military unit can claim as colorful and volatile a history as the Rangers, who have led the way in America's wars for well over 300 years. This book traces the Rangers from the time of Robert Rogers during the French-Indian War of the 18th century to the most recent combat operations in Iraq. With a focus on today's Army Rangers,...
Ebury Publishing, 2009. — 382 p. The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in the Second World War to encourage resistance and carry out sabotage behind enemy lines: in Winston Churchill's famous phrase, to 'set Europe ablaze'. Drawing on the vast resources of the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive and featuring a mass of previously...
S.P.I. Books, 1994. — 291 p. Uncovering secret hand-in-hand relations between the CIA and the Mossad, a political intelligence publisher reveals covert operations to topple Third-World regimes, the Reagan administration's manipulation of details on the Iran-contra affair, and more.
Fourth Printing. — Philadelfia: B. Lippincott Company, 1959. — 406 p. From the plot to kidnap George Washington to the fall of Yorktown, this book chronicles the clandestine activities of the spies, counterspies, and double agents who risked life and honor in a silent, anonymous shadow war during the American Revolution.
Éditions du Moment, 2014. — 172 p. Le 18 juillet 1980, Chapour Bakhtiar, dernier Premier ministre du Shah d'Iran, échappe à une tentative d'assassinat à Neuilly-sur- Seine. Alors que les balles tirées par le commando à la solde des mollahs arrosent l'appartement, un adolescent se cache, terrifié. C'est le petit-fils de Chapour, Djahanshah. Lorsque son grand-père est finalement...
Routledge, 2016. — 328 p. Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors in America and Britain) over their use of torture, first-hand or second-hand, to gain intelligence for the War on Terror. Exploring key agenda-building drivers that exposed the...
Helion and Company, 2014. — 288 p. From the searing heat of the Zambezi Valley to the freezing cold of the Chimanimani Mountains in Rhodesia, from the bars in Port St Johns in the Transkei to the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa, this is the story of one man's fight against terror, and his conscience. Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a...
Routledge, 2017. — 529 p. This book examines a wide array of phenomena that arguably constitute the most noxious, extreme, terrifying, murderous, secretive, authoritarian, and/or anti-democratic aspects of national and international politics. Scholars should not ignore these "dark sides" of politics, however unpleasant they may be, since they influence the world in a multitude...
Grand Central Publishing, 2023. — 228 p. James Bamford, the bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, unveils a hidden cabal of foreign powers that have spied against America to reveal the incredible spygames, secrets, and cyber-weapons they’ve hatched, unlocked, and stolen—and how U.S. intelligence has utterly failed to stop them. SPYFAIL is about the highly...
Potomac Books, 2017. — 328 p. In the 1970s news broke that former Nazis had escaped prosecution and were living the good life in the United States. Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to deport offenders. The subsequent creation of the Office of Special Investigations marked the official...
Simon and Schuster, 1996. — 335 p. In this riveting account of one of the most notorious spy cases in Cold War history, Rodney Barker, the author of The Broken Circle and The Hiroshima Maidens, uncovers startling new facts about the head-line-making sex-for-secrets marine spy scandal at the American embassy in Moscow. This is a nonfiction book that reads with all the excitement...
Tafelberg, 2015. — 304 p. This fascinating memoir is authored by Dr. Niel Barnard, the last director of the National Intelligence Agency of the Apartheid State of South Africa. It is an insider's account of the delicate and clandestine negotiations that took place between the secretive cabal/inner circles of former South African presidents P.W. Botha and his successor, F.W. de...
Henry Holt and Company, 2022. — 288 p. Unbreakable is the edge-of-your seat true story of the codebreakers, spies, and navy men who cracked the Nazis' infamous Enigma encryption machine and turned the tide of World War II—perfect for fans of The Imitation Game. As the Germans waged a brutal war across Europe, details of every Nazi plan, every attack, every troop movement were...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 224 p. Mary S. Barton explores counterterrorism in the years between World War I and World War II, starting with the attempted assassination of French Prime Minister George Clemenceau in 1919, and taking the story up to and beyond the double assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Jean Louis Barthou in 1934....
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013. — 179 p. A thrilling spy mission, a moving Holocaust story, and a first-class work of narrative nonfiction. In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in...
Public Affairs, 2009. — 319 p. Pham Xuan An was a brilliant journalist and an even better spy. A friend to all the legendary reporters who covered the Vietnam War, he was an invaluable source of news and a font of wisdom on all things Vietnamese. At the same time, he was a masterful double agent. An inspired shape-shifter who kept his cover in place until the day he died, Pham...
RFK Library, 2023. — 152 p. Chilean scholar Carlos Basso Prieto presents an expansive and exhaustively researched history exposing the dark history of clandestine CIA activities in Chile both during the brutal CIA-backed military dictatorship of Pinochet, but not ceasing when Pinochet was finally replaced, and continuing to the present day. The failed plan to assassinate Fidel...
Aguilar, 2017. — 298 p. El fallido plan para asesinar a Fidel Castro en La Moneda. La historia del criminal de guerra nazi protegido por Pinochet. El increíble caso del agente de la CIA que quiso impedir el golpe militar. Los siniestros experimentos de Michael Townley. Los vínculos de la DINA en el crimen de Jaime Guzmán. Los informes de la KGB sobre Neruda y la vida privada de...
T.M.C. Asser Press, 2017. — 249 p. Many intelligence practitioners feel that the statutory footing on which intelligence agencies have been placed forms an impediment to confronting unprecedented contemporary challenges. On the basis of case studies spanning the period from the First World War to the present, this book argues that while the intelligence community in the era of...
Helion and Company, 2014. — 432 p. There is nothing that terrorized Russian and Chinese-backed guerillas fighting Rhodesia's bush war in the 1970s more than the famed Selous Scouts. The very name of the unit struck fear into the very heart and soul of even the most battle-hardened guerillas. Too afraid to even whisper the name amongst themselves, they referred to soldiers of...
Shoe Phone Press, 2020. — 254 p. With the voice of forty-five years of experience in the Intelligence Community, Bayard and Holmes explore the lives of the espionage elite. A one-legged woman operating behind Nazi lines, deemed to be “the most dangerous spy in all of France.” A young man left for dead, not worth a Viet Cong bullet, who survives to fight terrorists for six more...
National Defense Intelligence College Center for Strategic Intelligence Research, 2010. — 206 p. Michael Bayer is a former chief of the Department of State’s (DOS) transnational criminal investigative office. Bayer’s book addresses the ques- tion of how the United States can engage international partners more effectively to address worldwide manifestations of destabilizing...
Prufrock Press, 2015. — 101 p. Flame throwers, spy trees, bird bombs, and Hell Fighters were all a part of World War I, but you won't learn that in your history books! Uncover long-lost secrets of spies like Howard Burnham, "The One Legged Wonder," and nurse-turned-spy, Edith Cavell. Peek into secret files to learn the truth about the Red Baron and the mysterious Mata Hari. Then...
Prufrock Press, 2015. — 102 p. Spy school, poison pens, exploding muffins, and Night Witches were all a part of World War II, but you won't learn that in your history books! Crack open secret files and read about the mysterious Ghost Army, rat bombs, and doodle bugs. Discover famous spies like the White Mouse, super-agent Garbo, and baseball player and spy, Moe Berg. Then build...
Random House Publishing Group, 2003. — 560 p. A history of the CIA's spy wars with the KGB ranges from 1985, through the Afghan war, to the breakup of the Soviet Union, detailing the activities of intelligence operatives on both sides of the conflict. Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA officers as they...
Pen and Sword Military, 2011. — 240 p. Insurgencies are at the center of most of the conflicts that confront the modern world, and they have been since the Second World War. Leading armies across the globe have well-developed strategies for fighting counter-insurgency campaigns which are continually adjusted and refined as a result of direct experience gained in the field....
Routledge, 2002. — 327 p. — (Studies in Intelligence). A history of Swedish interception of radio and telegraph messages during World Wars I and II providing a valuable background to Swedish military operations at this time. This should prove a valuable work for anyone interested in the intelligence systems at work during wartime.
Taylor and Francis, 2008. — 702 p. The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. The secret army in the service of the invisible Republic has had a powerful effect on Irish events over the past twenty-five years. These hidden corridors of...
Trine Day, 2015. — 410 p. Ari Ben-Menashe spent more than a decade in the innermost circles of Israeli intelligence. He was privy to the secret negotiations with the Iranians to delay the release of the American hostages until after the election of Ronald Reagan, he enlisted Robert Gates in the transfer of the $52 million payoff to Iran, and was Robert Maxwell's handler....
Routledge, 1996. — 216 p. Military intelligence, grossly neglected during the interwar period, had by mid-1942 proved itself indispensable through information gathered from intercepted radio messages in the supposedly unbreakable German Enigma cipher. Ralph Bennett, who worked for four years at Bletchley Park as a senior producer of the intelligence (Ultra') derived from the...
Penguin Random House, 2014. — 192 p. The inside story of the Bill Sutch spy scandal by the agent who potted him.In 1975 Kit Bennetts was one of the youngest officers ever to serve in the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service. Fresh out of training, on routine surveillance duty one night he followed a big Mercedes from the Soviet Embassy in Wellington and witnessed a meeting...
Simon and Schuster, 2008. — 432 p. In the years since 9/11, the U.S. war on terror has focused on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Coverage of Iran has been devoted almost exclusively to its nuclear ambitions. Yet, as Ronen Bergman's groundbreaking reporting in this vital investigative history reveals, for thirty years, Iran has been the world's leading sponsor of global terror...
Grasset, 1976. — 331 p. L’Algérie brûle. Parachutistes et légionnaires se battent dans les djebels. Les services spéciaux français reçoivent l’ordre de traquer le F.L.N. jusqu’en Europe.
Harper Collins, 2009. — 336 p. During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdale; not to mention the most influential members of the South Vietnamese government and army. None of them ever...
Coulsdon: Jane's Publishing Company Ltd, 1988. — ISBN: 0-7106-0528-5. North Korea fields one of the world's largest armies, tasked with annihilating U.S. and South Korean forces and reuniting the two Koreas. At the tip of the North Koreans' spear is the largest special operations force in the world... Updating and expanding his original 1988 study, Joseph Bermudez includes in...
Croatian. — Zagreb: Minerva, 1940. — 399 s. Već sam početak Svjetskoga rata oborio je sva ranija nagađanja i predviđanja o tome kako rat djeluje na pučanstvo i na privredu, štaviše, pokazao je, da su bili pogrešni i svi vojnički planovi i računi. Čitava se Evropa odjednom našla U silnom metežu, stari je svijet potpuno izmijenio svoje uobičajeno svakodnevno lice. I ubrzo je...
Skyhorse, 2016. — 292 p. World War II seems to provide an endless supply of amazing true stories of heroism in the face of mortal danger. This true account of an MI6 agent's kidnapping and survival is a real-life spy thriller, and one worth knowing. On November 9, 1939, Captain Sigismund Payne Best and other members of Britain's ultra-secret Z service sat near a café in Venlo,...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 304 p. Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War examines the hitherto unexplored history of secret intelligence cooperation between three asymmetric partners – specifically the UK, US and Turkey – from the end of the Second World War until the Turkey's first military coup d'état on 27 May 1960. The book shows that our understanding of the Cold War as a binary...
Helion and Company, 2011. — 293 p. This is the story of a Kavango tracker who served for six years with Koevoet ('Crowbar'), the elite South African Police anti-terrorist unit, during the South West African–Angolan bush war of the '80s. Most white team leaders lasted only two years; the black trackers walked the tracks for years. Sisingi Kamongo tells the story of the 50 or so...
Seventh edition (Revised). — Washington: Defense Departament, 1981. — 78 p. A Critical and Annotated Bibliography of Open-Source Literature. This annotated Bibliography of Intelligence Literature is the product of many years of effort, contributions, and firm support by the staff and faculty of the Defense Intelligence School. However, recognition is due to those individuals...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 226 p. Formed from members of Free Forces who had escaped from German occupation, 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando was one of the most unusual units in WW2. All members had to pass the Green Beret commando course at Achnacarry in Scotland and the book begins by describing this training. With no less than six national troops, plus X Troop drawn from exiled...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 256 p. This ground breaking book examines the colorful history of the Intelligence Corps from its formation in 1940 up to the present day. Even accepting that there are aspects of the Corps’ activities that cannot be revealed, there is a great wealth of fascinating material here for those interested in intelligence gathering. During WW2 over 400...
Syracuse University Research Corp., 1972. — 246 p. A former Czechoslovak intelligence officer describes the structure and activities of the Soviet-controlled agency in the Prague that disseminates anti-American propaganda
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 288 p. This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, arguing that it is crucial to ground contemporary experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq in a global framework. Unlike other studies that begin with the American and French...
Ballantine Books, 2010. — 352 p. A generation before Vietnam, the war for Korea raged. It was as rough and dirty a war as has ever been fought a war small in history, but very large to the men who waged it. In the Korean War, one group above all others distinguished itself, a small elite band who volunteered for action behind enemy lines. They were the men of the U.S. Army's...
Ballantine Books, 2010. — 346 p. From the deadly shores of North Africa to the invasion of Sicily to the fierce jungle hell of the Pacific, the contribution of the World War II Ranger Battalions far outweighed their numbers. They were ordinary men on an extraordinary mission, experiencing the full measure of the fear, exhaustion, and heroism of combat in nearly every major...
Stackpole Books, 2009. — 429 p. In this gripping companion to his acclaimed The Battalion (978-0-8117-0184-6), which told the story of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in World War II, Robert W. Black turns his attention to the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Ranger Battalions, otherwise known as Darby's Rangers. These elite soldiers accompanied British commandos on the failed Dieppe Raid in August...
Chicago: Quadrangle, 1966. — 315 p. This book is a collection of stories about individual political forgeries, ranging from Peter the Great's Testament to the Cold War. Constantinides gives Blackstock's rejection of the Penkovsky papers high marks (a judgment in itself suspect today, if not in 1983), but finds that his presentation on the Zinoviev Letter "lacks similar analytic...
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1964. — 351 p. Study of the effectiveness of subversive techniques as used by various countries, including the U.S.S.R. and the U.S., in spying, guerilla warfare, and open intervention. Intervention by governments in the internal affairs of other governments may be forbidden in the international moral code, but it is commonplace in actual...
Sutherland House, 2021. — 275 p. Landing in Vancouver on a flight from Hong Kong on December 2018, Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested by Canadian authorities with an American extradition warrant. The US Department of Justice accused Meng of fraud and bypassing sanctions against Iran. Nine days later, in an act of retaliation, China arrested two...
Exeter Books, 1987. — 200 p. When World War II formally came to a close on to September 1945, a new secret war was only just beginning: the underground conflict between the security services of the two great superpowers, the KGB from the Soviet Union and the CIA from the United States of America. The history of postwar intelligence operations is naturally dominated by the...
Harper Collins, 2020. — 384 p. The New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. during World War II. The mission: to kill the three most important and heavily guarded men in the world. The assassins: a specially trained...
Harper Collins, 2016. — 528 p. The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting biography of Betty Pack, the dazzling American debutante who became an Allied spy during WWII and was hailed by OSS chief General “Wild Bill" Donovan as “the greatest unsung heroine of the war. Betty Pack was charming,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 231 p. This study offers the first detailed examination of the varied means by which parliament through its committees and the work of individual members has sought to scrutinise the British intelligence and security agencies and the government's use of intelligence.
Perfect Bound, 2004. — 579 p. In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq. Eight months after the president declared an end to major combat operations, Saddam Hussein was captured in a farmhouse in Al-Dawr. And yet neither peace...
Texas University Press, 1994. — 262 p. This dramatic memoir traces Herman Bodson’s transformation from a pacifist and scientist to, in his own words, “a cold fighter and a killer” in the Belgian underground, an expert in explosives and sabotage. Serving first in the OMBR (Office Militaire Belge de Resistance), he later formed a group of underground fighters in the Belgian...
City Lights Publishers, 2013. — 402 p. With ex-CIA staffer Edward Snowden's leaks about National Security Agency surveillance in the headlines, Heidi Boghosian's Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance feels especially timely. Boghosian reveals how the government acquires information from telecommunications companies and other...
Ashgate Publishing Co., 2007. — 326 p. The events of September 11, 2001 sharply revived governmental and societal anxieties in many democratic countries concerning the threats posed by terrorism, organized crime, the proliferation and use of weapons of mass destruction, and other complex security threats. In many countries, public discourse of subjects traditionally considered...
Potomac Books, 2005. — 273 p. Given recent experiences with terrorism, clearly even the most democratic societies have a legitimate need for secrecy. This secrecy has often been abused, however, and strong oversight systems are necessary to protect individual liberties. The assembled authors, each well known in the international community of national security scholars, bring...
New Holland Australia, 2008. — 336 p. A terrifying true story of kidnap, torture and dramatic rescue by the FBI and the KGB. Chechen terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda orchestrate a Moscow abduction, holding westerners Yvonne and her husband Danny hostage for $1.6 million they don't have. It will take enormous courage and an international rescue effort to bring them home. This book is...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 256 p. The Bedford Triangle portrays the crucial part played by the British Special Operations Executive, the US Army Air Force and the American Office of Strategic Services in operations behind enemy lines in occupied Europe during the Second World War. Milton Ernest Hall, a country house in Bedfordshire used officially as the UK headquarters of the US Army...
Pen and Sword Books, 2015. — 256 p. The Bedford Triangle portrays the crucial part played by the British Special Operations Executive, the US Army Air Force and the American Office of Strategic Services in operations behind enemy lines in occupied Europe during the Second World War. Milton Ernest Hall, a country house in Bedfordshire used officially as the UK headquarters of...
The History Press, 2016. — 265 p. 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 1914–1918 there were several thousand women actively working against the Kaiser's forces occupying their...
The History Press, 2017. — 284 p. Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the Warsaw Pact saw air forces become the greatest danger to the West. After training, they were...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 498 p. This edited collection surveys how non-Western states have responded to the threats of domestic and international terrorism in ways consistent with and reflective of their broad historical, political, cultural and religious traditions. It presents a series of eighteen case studies of counterterrorism theory and practice in the...
The History Press, 2011. — 193 p. Nancy Wake is one of the true heroines of the Second World War. Born in New Zealand, she was living in Marseille and was married to Frenchman Hanri Fiocca when the Germans invaded. Nancy immediately became active in the Resistance movement, smuggling messages and food to underground groups in Southern France and helping refugees flee to Spain....
Casemate, 2004. — 528 p. This book focuses on the delicate connection between the head of Swiss Intelligence, Colonel Roger Masson, and the German Chief of Espionage, SS General Walter Schellenberg. The author had access to hitherto inaccessible documents, including newly discovered material in American archives, to fully illuminate this secret connection for the first time. The...
Hill and Wang, 1999. — 336 p. Richard Breitman's Official Secrets is an important work based on newly declassified archives. As defeat loomed over the Third Reich in 1945, its officials tried to destroy the physical and documentary evidence about the Nazis' monstrous crimes, about their murder of millions. Great Britain already had some of the evidence, however, for its...
Wiley and Sons, 2001. — 250 p. Few World War II stories are more gripping than those fought behind enemy lines by spies, underground members and special forces. In this collection, the author brings to light largely unknown stories of behind the scenes bravery and covert activities that helped the Allies win critical victories both on the ground and in the air. In historian...
John Wiley, 2003. — 237 p. A rare treat for World War II history buffs and fans of the strange, absurd, and unexplained. Acclaimed military historian William Breuer takes readers on a trip through the looking glass to acquaint them with the weirder side of World War II. Featuring a cast of characters including double- and triple-agents, femme fatales, fearless leaders, and men...
Free Press, 2000. — 448 p. Drawing from newly declassified documents, the author chronicles the story of codebreaking during the last world war, from cat-and-mouse games with Nazi U-boats to the invasion of Normandy (1944). A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years....
Free Press, 2000. — 448 p. Drawing from newly declassified documents, the author chronicles the story of codebreaking during the last world war, from cat-and-mouse games with Nazi U-boats to the invasion of Normandy (1944). A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years....
Routledge, 2003. — 200 p. This work investigates the connection between intelligence history, domestic policy, military history and foreign relations in a time of increasing bureaucratization of the modern state. The issues of globalization of foreign relations and the development of modern communication are also discussed.
Mercier Press, 2020. — 386 p. In May of 1970, two government ministers were dismissed from Cabinet for allegedly purchasing guns for the IRA. The Taoiseach Jack Lynch disavowed any knowledge of the plot. Few believed him. Charles Haughey, Minister for Finance, a captain in Irish military intelligence along with two others were put on trial. All were acquitted. Haughey refused...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. — 352 p. This insightful book provides a unified repository of information on jihadist terrorism. Offering an integrated treatment of terrorist groups, zones of armed conflict and counter-terrorism responses from liberal democratic states, it presents fresh empirical perspectives on the origins and progression of conflict, and contemporary global...
Prentice Hall, 1977. — 196 p. In 1968 a Soviet G-class submarine mysteriously exploded and sank to the bottom of the Pacific. With Cold War secrecy and speed, U.S. military intelligence raced to find a way to raise the sub. In the new preface to this edition of The Jennifer Project, which was first published in 1977, author Clyde Burleson discusses some of the sources he could...
Routledge, 1991. — 323 p. This book, an outcome of an international conference entitled "State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal Repression", addresses the antecedent structural factors conducive to state organized terror and provides insights into the political and social psychology of state terror and security.
Lume Books, 2021. — 245 p. The Cambridge Five – the most infamous spy ring in British history. Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean were the four. But who was the fifth man? John Cairncross, born 1913 in Scotland, was the brilliant scholarship boy who made it to Cambridge University. It was here that he met Blunt and was introduced into Communist circles....
The History Press, 2018. — 448 p. He was the son of a hereditary peer, one of the wealthiest men in Britain. His childhood was privileged; at Cambridge, he flourished. At the age of 21, he founded The Film Society, and became a pioneering standard-bearer for film as art. He was a collaborator of Alfred Hitchcock, rescuing The Lodger and later producing his ground-breaking British...
Helion and Company, 2012. — 216 p. Portugal was the first colonial power to arrive in Africa and the last to leave. As other European states were granting independence to their African possessions, Portugal chose to stay and fight despite the small odds of success. That it did so successfully for thirteen years across the three fronts of Angola, Guinea and Mozambique remains a...
Helion and Company, 2015. — 480 p. Following the 1952 reorganization of the Portuguese Air Force from the army and naval air arms, Portugal now had an entity dedicated solely to aviation that would bring it into line with its new NATO commitment. As it proceeded to develop a competence in modern multiengine and jet fighter aircraft for its NATO role and train a professional...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 72 p. In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its Empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast colonial spaces of Africa. Following the uprisings of March 1961 in the north of Angola,...
Routledge, 2004. — 809 p. From references to secret agents in The Art of War in 400 B.C.E. to the Bush administration's ongoing War on Terrorism, espionage has always been an essential part of state security policies. This illustrated encyclopedia traces the fascinating stories of spies, intelligence, and counterintelligence throughout history, both internationally and in the...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 224 p. Early espionage organizations like Walsingham’s Elizabethan spy network were private enterprises, tasked with keeping the Tudor Queen and her government safe. Formal use of spies and counter spies only really began in the years after 1909, when the official British secret service was founded. Britain became the first major proponent of secret...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 224 p. Early espionage organizations like Walsingham’s Elizabethan spy network were private enterprises, tasked with keeping the Tudor Queen and her government safe. Formal use of spies and counter spies only really began in the years after 1909, when the official British secret service was founded. Britain became the first major proponent of secret...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 224 p. Early espionage organizations like Walsingham’s Elizabethan spy network were private enterprises, tasked with keeping the Tudor Queen and her government safe. Formal use of spies and counter spies only really began in the years after 1909, when the official British secret service was founded. Britain became the first major proponent of secret...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 178 p. Few soldiers are deemed good enough to be selected and trained as snipers and even fewer qualify. As a result, snipers are regarded as the elite of their units and their skills command the ungrudging respect of their fellows - and the enemy. The Author is one such man who recently served a full tour of duty with 1st Battalion the Royal...
McFarland Company, 2013. — 220 p. This firsthand account, never before published in English, details a secret World War II mission in 1944 called Operation Salamander, in which Tadeusz Chciuk (writing as Marek Celt) parachuted into German-occupied Poland with the enigmatic political adviser Dr. Jozef Retinger. The goal of the mission was to persuade the Polish underground forces...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1996. — 245 p. The book examines the dynamic of West European terrorism and counter-terrorism as it has evolved since the late 1960s. It assesses past, present and future terrorist trends and analyzes the internal security policies that have been initiated by the member states of the European Union (EU), both singularly and collectively, to combat terrorism...
Parragon, 2012. — 240 p. This fascinating book provides a thorough insight to the world's special forces, including US Navy SEALS, British SAS and Russian GRU Spetsnaz to name just a few. These pages reveal how the world's elite troops are selected and how they prepare for covert operations. Includes special features on survival techniques, operations and weaponry. Includes...
Routledge, 2016. — 304 p. This book tells the story of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the largest nonsectarian refugee relief agency in the world. Founded in the 1930s by socialist militants, the IRC attracted the support of renowned progressives such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Norman Thomas, and Reinhold Niebuhr. But by the 1950s it had been absorbed into the American...
Wasington: Federal Reseach Division, 1984. — 239 p. The types of conflict considered and defined in the study include border incidents, border wars, civil wars, coups d'etat (successful and unsuccessful), foreign military interventions, insurgencies, military invasions, mutinies, and rebellions. Part one of the study treats conflict in each sub-Saharan state with a short...
Inner Traditions, 2017. — 768 p. Occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley’s three sojourns in America sealed both his notoriety and his lasting influence. Using previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton traces Crowley’s extensive travels through America and his quest to implant a new magical and spiritual consciousness in the United...
London: Croom Helm, 1985. - 266 p. When originally published in 1985 this volume was the first scholarly and objective contribution available on Rhodesian counter-insurgency. It documents and explains why Rhodesia lost the war. The origins of the conflict are reviewed; each chapter examines a separate institution or counter-insurgency strategy directly related to the...
Routledge, 2016. — 288 p. When originally published in 1985 this volume was the first scholarly and objective contribution available on Rhodesian counter-insurgency. It documents and explains why Rhodesia lost the war. The origins of the conflict are reviewed; each chapter examines a separate institution or counter-insurgency strategy directly related to the development of the...
Salamander Books, 1983. — 216 p. Ray Steiner Cline (1918–1996) was an official at the United States Central Intelligence Agency best known for being the chief CIA analyst during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). In the midst of World War II, Cline joined the Office of Strategic Services. He became Chief of Current Intelligence in 1944. In 1946, he was assigned to the Operations...
Basic Books, 2015. — 378 p. It was at the height of the Cold War, in the summer of 1950, when Bruno Pontecorvo mysteriously vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Who was he, and what caused him to disappear? Was he simply a physicist, or also a spy and communist radical? A protégé of Enrico Fermi, Pontecorvo was one of the most promising nuclear physicists in the world. He spent...
Penguin Books, 2019. — 528 p. Klaus Fuchs knew more nuclear secrets in the last two years of the Second World War than anyone else in Britain. He was taken onto the Manhattan Project in the USA as a trusted physicist - and was the conduit by which knowledge of the highest classification passed to the Soviet Union. When Truman announced at the Potsdam Conference that the US...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 177 p. Small state behavior has been largely ignored by academics in both international relations and strategic/intelligence studies. Yet, when we analyze the root causes of war, insurrections, rebellions, revolutions and general sociological human behavior, it is the small state actors that are usually at the epicenter of the tumultuous event. It is...
Harper Collins, 1991. — 416 p. A critical, impressively researched history of US-Israeli relations by Andrew (The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine, 1983) and Leslie (Out of Control, 1987, not reviewed) Cockburn. Coming in the wake of the Gulf War, the Intifada, the Pollard espionage debacle, and the Bush Administration's somewhat revisionist attitude toward Israel,...
Souhill: 1988. — 504 p. "Fire Force is the account of Chris Cocks’s service in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), during Zimbabwe’s civil war of the 1970s-a war that came to be known, almost innocuously, as ‘the bush war’. Fire Force, a tactic of total airborne/airmobile envelopment, was developed by the RLI, and became the principal strike weapon of the...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. — 281 p. Based on his reading of top-secret files of the Israeli police and the prime minister's office, Hillel Cohen exposes the full extent of the crucial, and, until now, willfully hidden history of Palestinian collaboration with Israelis―and of the Arab resistance to it. Cohen's previous book, the highly acclaimed Army of...
Dey Street Books, 2020. — 324 p. The Spymaster of Baghdad tells the dramatic yet intimate account of how a covert Iraqi intelligence unit called “the Falcons” came together against all odds to defeat ISIS. The Falcons, comprised of ordinary men with little conventional espionage background, infiltrated the world’s most powerful terrorist organization, ultimately turning the...
Routledge, 2021. — 128 p. This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm in counter-insurgency warfare. Minimising the use of force and winning over the population’s opinion is said to be the cornerstone of success in modern counterinsurgency (COIN). Yet, this tells only one side of the story. Drawing upon primary data collected during interviews with...
Pegasus Books, 2017. — 528 р. A ground-breaking history of intelligence―from its classical origins to the onset of the surveillance state in the digital age―that lifts the veil of secrecy from this clandestine world. Comprehensive and authoritative, The Secret State skillfully examines the potential pitfalls of the traditional intelligence cycle; the dangerous uncertainties of...
Monash Asia Institute, 2008. — 324 p. The Malayan Emergency lasted from 1948 to 1960. During these tumultuous years, following so soon after the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War, the whole country was once more turned upside down and the lives of the people changed. The war against the Communist Party of Malaya's determined efforts to overthrow the Malayan...
ISEAS Publishing, 2018. — 177 p. This book fills an important gap in the history and intelligence canvas of Singapore and Malaya immediately after the surrender of the Japanese in August 1945. It deals with the establishment of the domestic intelligence service known as the Malayan Security Service (MSS), which was pan-Malayan covering both Singapore and Malaya, and the...
Equinox Publishing, 2009. — 264 р. Where talk of conspiracies is often a national pastime, the deepest, sometimes darkest, secrets have long been held by Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency (Badan Intelijen Negara, or BIN). Whether targeting communist diplomats, foreign terrorists, or domestic dissidents, BIN and its precursor organizations have been the covert spearhead of...
Routledge, 2019. — 559 p. This pioneering work, based on many years of reading and research and ranging mainly from the seventeenth century to the present, breaks new ground in intelligence bibliography. It is the most comprehensive and thorough bibliography of English-language nonfiction books on intelligence and espionage to date. The in-depth analytical annotations deal.
Routledge, 2021. — 372 p. Michal Goleniewski was one of the Cold War’s most important spies but has been overlooked in the vast literature on the intelligence battles between the Western Powers and the Soviet Bloc. Renowned investigative journalist Kevin Coogan reveals Goleniewski's extraordinary story for the first time in this biography. Goleniewski rose to be a senior...
Boulder: Paladin Press, 1988. — 403 p. — ISBN 0-87364-466-2. The definitive history of espionage has yet to be written. Even a comprehensive appreciation of espionage in our own times has still to be essayed. Perhaps, for the moment, we stand too close to the events for proper objectivity. Even those who are not in the trenches have difficulty maintaining perspective while the...
Martinus Nijhoff, 2007. — 292 p. This study evaluates whether surprise and intelligence failure leading to mass casualty terrorism are inevitable. It explores the extent to which four factors failures of public policy leadership, analytical challenges, organizational obstacles, and the inherent problems of warning information contribute to intelligence failure. The study...
Pegasus Books, 2016. — 448 p. The previously untold―and previously highly classified―story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age. As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining forces of computers and espionage are reshaping the entire...
Pegasus Books, 2016. — 448 p. The previously untold―and previously highly classified―story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age. As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining forces of computers and espionage are reshaping the entire world;...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 305 p. A.Q. Khan was the world's leading black market dealer in nuclear technology, described by a former CIA Director as "at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden." A hero in Pakistan and revered as the Father of the Bomb, Khan built a global clandestine network that sold the most closely guarded nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya....
Crown Publishing Group, 2008. — 432 p. In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world's first act of nuclear terrorism. On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London's Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian EmigrE and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of...
Algora Publishing, 2005. — 264 p. Presenting famous and infamous individuals and events that have shaped the current Western civilization, this book illustrates how America has arrived at our present dilemma of a unique "war on terror." John Craig details the unusual and often profound connections between important historical figures whose lives have left a wake that affect all...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003. — 416 p.
From an award-winning 60 Minutes reporter comes the extraordinary story of the largest and most successful CIA operation in history-the arming of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, pressure mounted for the Americans to support the Afghan resistance. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from...
Penguin Press, 2012. — 656 p. The dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict with Iran, revealing news-breaking episodes of covert and deadly operations that brought the two nations to the brink of open war. For three decades, the United States and Iran have engaged in a secret war. It is a conflict that has never been acknowledged and a story that has never...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 392 p. The Liberty Incident Revealed is the complete and final story about the Israeli Air Force and Navy attack on the USS Liberty during the Six Day War in June 1967. Cutting through all of the controversy and conspiracy theories about Israel's deadly attack, Cristol revises his well-regarded book about the event with an expanded and in-depth...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 368 p. To gain the upper hand in conflict the ability to know what your enemy is planning is vital. Massive amounts of money have been spent and many lives have been lost in pursuit of this objective. From biblical times to the present day, leaders have employed espionage on and off the battlefield in the quest for victory. Tactics might differ, from...
Public Affairs, 2022. — 288 p. The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow. 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...
Vij Books, 2020. — 305 p. The Book “Marketing Terrorism” is a hard work of ITCT analysts who have written great pieces of research in order to sketch the world map of terrorism. No doubt terrorism has created chaos and instability in the different regions and continents of the world. Every country has a different culture and counter culture of terrorism, such as the culture of...
Hachette Book Group, 2017. — 336 p. A revelatory account of the cloak-and-dagger Israeli campaign to target the finances fueling terror organizations--an effort that became the blueprint for U.S. efforts to combat threats like ISIS and drug cartels. ISIS boasted $2.4 billion of revenue in 2015, yet for too long the global war on terror overlooked financial warfare as an...
John Blake, 2013. — 272 p. In the past thirty years, the devastating effects of international terror have forced their way into the world affairs. To counter this new threat to civilisation - and to the safety of ordinary people - a new breed of soldier was created to fight the terrorist on their own terms. Armed to the hilt with the most hi-tech weaponry the modern military world...
Georgetown University Press, 2013. — 320 p. 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 intelligence outside of the anglosphere and European mainstream. Past studies of intelligence and...
Biteback Publishing, 2018. — 291 p. George Hill was a British spy who had befriended Trotsky during the Russian Revolution. He had smuggled the Romanian crown jewels out of the Soviet Union and was involved in an attempt to rescue the Tsar. During the Second World War he acted as the link between Churchills Special Operations Executive and Stalins secret service, the NKVD.
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 95 p. In less than two decades, Canadian Special Operations Forces (CANSOF) grew from a 100-man hostage-rescue unit to a 2,500-person Command capable of prosecuting missions across the special operations spectrum. The seminal event causing this transformation is examined within this monograph. The common narrative explaining the rise of Canadian...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. — 224 p. In 1914 Margriet Ballegeer, a young women from Contich, near Antwerp, joined the resistance in order to help sabotage the German occupation of Belgium throughout the war. Despite the danger, Margriet, aged only 24, joined the local resistance group and later became part of a wider network of spies run by the British Intelligence Service...
Casemate, 2019. — 256 р. Although the ultimate prize of the Great Game played out between Great Britain and Imperial Russia in the 19th century was India, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan and Tibet. Maps and knowledge of the enemy were crucial elements in Britain’s struggle to defend the ‘jewel in the crown.’ The...
Casemate, 2019. — 293 р. Although the ultimate prize of the Great Game played out between Great Britain and Imperial Russia in the 19th century was India, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan and Tibet. Maps and knowledge of the enemy were crucial elements in Britain’s struggle to defend the ‘jewel in the crown.’ The...
The History Press, 2014. — 255 p. The shadowy world of supposedly legalized spying has an enduring fascination for us all. Spy and Counterspy reveals for the first time the web of spies that spanned the globe during and after the Second World War, working for organisations like MI5 and MI6, the CIA and OSS, Soviet Smersh and NKVD, Japanese Tokko and the German Gestapo. These...
Routledge, 1995. — 456 p. This is the first extensive work in any language on Ceausescu's secret police, the Securitate. From the imposition of Communist rule in Romania in 1945, the organisation and activity of the Securitate remained shrouded in secrecy, and only since the overthrow of Ceausescu in December 1989 has some information become available. This has been published...
Harper and Row, 1971. — 257 p. The covert methods employed by these very special military British and German officers during World War II are absolutely incredulous! Masters of deception! Denis Sefton Delmer was a British journalist of Australian heritage and, during World War II, a propagandist for the British government. Fluent in German, he became friendly with Ernst Röhm...
Tallandier, 2021. — 176 p. Les Vikings qui ravagent l’Europe à partir du IXe siècle sont les premiers à recourir à la reconnaissance et au renseignement de façon à obtenir l'effet de surprise maximum au cours de leurs raids, car ils sont toujours moins nombreux que leurs adversaires. Ils légueront leur expérience de la guerre secrète aux Normands, lesquels ne cesseront d’y...
Nouveau Monde Editions, 2021. — 648 p. Officiellement, le Vatican n’a pas de service d’espionnage. Mais cela ne veut pas dire que personne ne s’y occupe de renseignement! Le Saint-siège a toujours été la cible de services secrets étrangers. Persuadés que le Vatican dispose d’un réseau de renseignement sans équivalent, ils veulent soit en percer les secrets, soit s’en faire un...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. — 368 p. Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons - father and son co-conspirators who deceived their country by selling national secrets to Russia. Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. — 368 p. Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons - father and son co-conspirators who deceived their country by selling national secrets to Russia. Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. — 368 p. Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons - father and son co-conspirators who deceived their country by selling national secrets to Russia. Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. — 368 p. Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons - father and son co-conspirators who deceived their country by selling national secrets to Russia. Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. — 368 p. Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons - father and son co-conspirators who deceived their country by selling national secrets to Russia. Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The...
Nouveau Monde Editions, 2008. — 335 p. De la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le grand public ne retient souvent que les plus grandes attaques ou campagnes des généraux. Pourtant, manoeuvres et engagements armés ne sont que la partie visible de l'affrontement. Entre 1939 et 1945, les victoires sur les champs de bataille n'ont pu être remportées qu'au prix d'exceptionnelles opérations...
L'Harmattan, 1995. — 320 p. Le royaume du Laos, devenu complètement indépendant en octobre 1953, est immédiatement confronté à une subversion partant du Vietnam communiste, soutenu par tout le bloc soviétique et par la Chine. C'est le début d'une agression qui, vingt ans plus tard, aboutira à la main-mise communiste sur le pays du Million d'Eléphants et à sa satellisation....
Potomac Books, 2021. — 304 p. In Spymaster's Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression legendary former spymaster Jack Devine aims to ignite public discourse on our country’s intelligence and counterintelligence posture against Russia, among other adversaries. Spymasters are not spies - their mission is to run and handle spies and spy networks. They exist in virtually all...
Potomac Books, 2021. — 304 p. In Spymaster's Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression legendary former spymaster Jack Devine aims to ignite public discourse on our country’s intelligence and counterintelligence posture against Russia, among other adversaries. Spymasters are not spies - their mission is to run and handle spies and spy networks. They exist in virtually all...
A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer—the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War. In the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon was living in New Delhi with her family when her father was exposed as a CIA spy. Eva had long believed that her father was a U.S....
University of Plymouth Press, 2013. — 224 p. During the 1987 Greek-Turkish crisis, Greek military intelligence provided essential information on Turkey’s limited military preparations, so helping to prevent an escalation to confrontation. In the 1996 crisis, Greek military intelligence failed to provide tactical information and details of the Turkish intent to deploy troops on...
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 320 p. The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure. An attempt to stem the spread of Soviet and Chinese influence, the conflict in practice created a chaotic state torn apart by espionage, terrorism and guerilla warfare. American troops quickly became embroiled in jungle warfare and knowledge of the other side's troop...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 256 p. Though officially neutral until March 1945, Argentina played a key role during World War II as a base for the South American intelligence operations of the major powers. The most famous spymaster of them all was Johannes Siegfried Becker (codename: Sargo), the man responsible for organizing most of the Nazi intelligence gathering in Latin America and...
I.B. Tauris, 2013. — 304 p. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and the subsequent war with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen, was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War. Key details of the circumstances surrounding the invasion and its ultimate conclusion only months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have long remained unclear; the entire...
Harvard University Press, 2020. — 398 p. Historian and journalist Jacob Dlamini investigates one of three surviving copies of the “terrorist album,” a rogue’s gallery of apartheid’s political enemies collected over decades by South Africa’s security police. From the photos emerges the afterlife of apartheid, as Dlamini tells the story of former insurgents, collaborators, and...
Vine Leaves Press, 2023. — 152 p. From the snowy Soviet shooting range to the heat and dust of Africa, nothing is what it seems. And neither is Sue Dobson. The image of South Africa in the 1980's as the golden paradise on the tip of the African continent conceals a brutal, racist Apartheid regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives. Beauty and brutality go hand in hand. Sue...
Hurst, 2020. — 255 p. South Africa's transition to democracy took place against a backdrop of shadow war between the apartheid regime's counterinsurgency forces and the African National Congress' armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). This book analyses in unprecedented detail the hidden history of MK's struggle and its contribution to South Africa's liberation, while exposing new...
Little Brown, 2014. — 411 p. World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided by brutal machinery that cost the lives of many. But behind all of this an intellectual war was also being fought between engineers, chemists, code-breakers, physicists, doctors, mathematicians, and intelligence gatherers. This hidden war was to...
Random House Publishing Group, 2007. — 343 p. This book answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America's intelligence so catastrophically wrong? Journalist Drogin takes us to Europe, the Middle East, and deep inside the CIA to find the truth. In 1999, a mysterious Iraqi applies for political asylum in Munich, offering compelling testimony of Saddam...
HarperCollins India, 2018. — 344 p. Pointing to the horizon where the sea and sky are joined, he says, ‘It is only an illusion because they can’t really meet, but isn’t it beautiful, this union which isn’t really there.’ – SAADAT HASAN MANTO Sometime in 2016, a series of dialogues took place which set out to find a meeting ground, even if only an illusion, between A.S. Dulat and...
Harper Collins India, 2018. — 344 p. Sometime in 2016, a series of dialogues took place which set out to find a meeting ground, even if only an illusion, between A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani. One was a former chief of RAW, India’s external intelligence agency, the other of ISI, its Pakistani counterpart. As they could not meet in their home countries, the conversations, guided...
Harper Collins India, 2018. — 344 p. Sometime in 2016, a series of dialogues took place which set out to find a meeting ground, even if only an illusion, between A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani. One was a former chief of RAW, India’s external intelligence agency, the other of ISI, its Pakistani counterpart. As they could not meet in their home countries, the conversations, guided...
New York, Evanston: A Giniger Book Published in Association With Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988. — 393 p. Anyone who edits a collection of great true spy stories should be ready to say what makes a spy great. I would differentiate between two types of qualities in a spy. The spy can achieve something great by acquiring some vital information that may change the course of a...
Prometheus Books, 2019. — 296 p. Based on newly available information, the son of famed U-2 pilot, Francis Gary Powers, presents the facts and dispels misinformation about the Cold War espionage program that his father was part of. One of the most talked-about events of the Cold War was the downing of the American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers over the Soviet...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 288 p. Asad Durrani served as a three star general in the Pakistan army, and later headed the Inter-Services Intelligence agency from 1990 to 1992. His time in service encompassed the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan and dissolution; shifting regional and international alliances, particularly with the US; and contending with India's...
New Jersey, 1974. — 334 p. Intelligence in the Ancient Near East Intelligence in the Roman Empire Byzantine Intelligence Service Intelligence in the Arab Muslim Empires Intelligence in the Mongol Empire Intelligence in the Muscovite State
Mason Crest Publishers, 2011. — 98 p. Almost every country in the world has its elite units. These are the men and women who perform operations no regular soldiers will touch, who go deep into enemy territory to sabotage, attack, rescue, and observe. Take a look at life in five of the most prestigious military units—U.S. Airborne Forces, the Israeli Parachute Corps, Russian...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2017. — 406 p. Are war clouds gathering in Asia? Will China make good on threats to invade Taiwan? What would this conflict mean for America and the world? Exposing internal Chinese military documents and restricted-access studies, The Chinese Invasion Threat explores the secret world of war planning and strategy, espionage and national...
London: 1975. — 198 p. A last century writer, Adolphe Michel, recalled that Voltaire estimated the number of works published over the years, on the Jesuits, to be about six thousand. "What number have we reached a century later?", asked Adolphe Michel, only to conclude immediately: "No matter. As long as there are Jesuits, books will have to be written against them. There is...
University Press of Kansas, 2015. — 445 p. When large formations of Allied four-engine bombers finally flew over Europe, it marked the beginning of the end for the Third Reich. Their relentless hammering of Germany--totaling more than 1.4 million missions--took out oil refineries, industries, and transportation infrastructures vital to the Reich's war effort. While other...
University Press of Kansas, 2015. — 441 p. When large formations of Allied four-engine bombers finally flew over Europe, it marked the beginning of the end for the Third Reich. Their relentless hammering of Germany--totaling more than 1.4 million missions--took out oil refineries, industries, and transportation infrastructures vital to the Reich's war effort. While other...
Mambo Press, 1989. — 228 p. The Rhodesian Bush War—also called the Second Chimurenga as well as the Zimbabwe War of Liberation —was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia). The conflict pitted three forces against one another: the Rhodesian white minority-led government of Ian Smith (later the...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1997. — 545 p. Book is a comprehensive survey of intelligence war in the Far East.Author gained access to recently de classified confidential documents. As a result the book has broken new ground on the subject. The cream of it is on Japanese espionage/covert operations prelude to outbreak of hostilities in the Far East. Firstly, author traces the growth...
Haymarket Books, 2014. — 192 p. In his new book, Tom Engelhardt takes in something new under the sun: what is no longer, as in the 1960s, a national security state, but a global security one, fighting secret wars that have turned the president into an assassin-in-chief. Shadow Government offers a powerful survey of a democracy of the wealthy that your grandparents wouldn't have...
Выходные данные не указаны. 1989. — 389 p. An interesting book of the use of deception by the world's intelligence agencies. This book shows that the KGB is the master of using deception to further Soviet Union's national interest. According to the author the function of intelligence agencies are not only gathering information, but also to present information AND passing...
EJE Publication, 2014. — 389 p. An interesting book of the use of deception by the world's intelligence agencies. This book shows that the KGB is the master of using deception to further Soviet Union's national interest. According to the author the function of intelligence agencies are not only gathering information, but also to present information AND passing disinformation to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 203 p. Over the past dozen years special operations forces (SOF) have been one of the few areas of growth and expansion in a number of militaries. This growth and expansion, however, has not been mirrored by a comparable one in academic inquiries into the subject. Special Operations from a Small State Perspective - Future Security Challenges, which...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 239 p. Builds a revisionary theoretical framework for researching intelligence knowledge and applies it to the Swedish Military and Security Directorate. Gunilla Eriksson revises our perception of intelligence as carefully collected data and objective truth, arguing that there are hidden aspects to intelligence analysis that need to be...
Trine Day, 2010. — 224 p. This investigation examines how behind-the-scenes collaboration between government, intelligence services, and drug traffickers has lined the pockets of big business and Western banks. Among the examples cited are the cozy relationship between Victor Bout, the largest weaponry dealer in the world, and George Bush's administration; the NGOs who are...
Threshold Editions, 2012. — 304 p. Until now, many sinister events that transpired in the clash of the world’s superpowers at the close of World War II and the ensuing Cold War era have been ignored, distorted, and kept hidden from the public. Through a meticulous examination of primary sources and disclosure of formerly secret records, this riveting account of the widespread...
Allen and Unwin, 2020. — 448 p. Dozens of Russian anarchists, socialists and communists arrived in Australia from 1905, fleeing repression in their homeland. Finding work in the Queensland cane fields, Russian activists recruited in working men's groups for their revolutionary cause, laying the foundations for infiltration by Soviet intelligence services of the unions and...
Routledge, 2020. — 137 p. This book delves into the secret histories of the CIA, the FBI, and British and Italian intelligence to study how policymakers can control intelligence agencies and when these agencies will try to remove their own government. For every government they serve, intelligence agencies are both a threat and a necessity. They often provide vital information...
Harper Collins, 2019. — 528 p. Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us the story of a Polish agent who infiltrated the infamous camp, organized a rebellion, and then snuck back out. We are squarely confronted with the other human truth: ordinary people will happily risk their lives to help others. Fairweather has dug...
Naval Institute Press, 1961. — 150 p. Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield. A behind-the-scenes history of the war, this book offers an exciting picture of the whole range of clandestine activities, the...
New York: Walker and Company, 1961. — 319 p. Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield. A behind-the-scenes history of the war, this book offers an exciting picture of the whole range of clandestine activities, the...
Routledge, 2021. — 217 p. This book, first published in 1991, examines the changes to security and intelligence agencies envisioned in the uncertain world at the end of the Cold War. While the central focus is on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, its history, function and future, there are also comparative studies of the British, Soviet, American and Australian...
Little, Brown, 2019. — 320 p. As World War Two came to an end, another war began to sweep the globe. But instead of being fought by armies and aircraft carriers, the Cold War was waged by spies. The Cold War spanned five decades and saw the rise of the CIA and the explosion of the nuclear arms race as the US and USSR become embroiled in a battle of ideologies that threatened...
Brookings Institution Press, 2009. — 272 p. Most policymakers see counterinsurgency and counternarcotics policy as two sides of the same coin. Stop the flow of drug money, the logic goes, and the insurgency will wither away. But the conventional wisdom is dangerously wrong headed, as Vanda Felbab-Brown argues in Shooting Up. Counternarcotics campaigns, particularly those...
Dell Books, 1988. — 273 p. The thinking man's spy book. Based in part on author Felix's personal experiences as a political agent in Hungary in the decades after World War II, this work explains what the rules are for secret operations, why the U. S. needs them, and how good a job our government and others are doing in practice. Chapters cover the political and social systems that...
Random House Australia, 2012. — 368 p. Get inside the very heart of Australia's elite forces, the SAS, in two red-hot memoirs in one special ebook edition. This limited edition bundle of two memoirs by ex-SAS soldier Keith Fennell is only available from August through to October 2012. Both Warrior Brothers and Warrior Training are jam-packed full of the action, fear and...
Foreign Languages Press, 2020. — 112 p. In a comparative analysis of more than two years, with genocides and with the counterinsurgency strategy called ʹHearts and Mindsʹ which was applied in Malaysia, Indonesia, Guatemala, El Salvador or Peru; the study reveals the genocidal practices that this counterinsurgency strategy used in the past and in the present in the case of India...
Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, Fort George, Special SerieS Volume 11, 2016. — 72 p. Histories of cryptology often end up a bit skewed. Much of the previous writing on COMINT in those early decades has centered on its military development and on military use. However, COMINT, even from those first years, has been as important in the diplomatic and...
Routledge, 2005. — 408 p. — (Studies in Intelligence). John Ferris' work in strategic and intelligence history is widely praised for its originality and the breadth of its research. At last his major pioneering articles are now available in this one single volume. In Intelligence and Strategy these essential articles have been fundamentally revised to incorporate new evidence...
Simon and Schuster, 2019. — 384 p. Five thousand years of military history. The best elite unites that have fought across the globe. Their story told by acclaimed adventurer and ex-SAS officer, Ranulph Fiennes. Throughout human history the art of warfare has evolved into many forms across numerous theatres, gradually becoming more sophisticated and strategized as the centuries...
Springer, 2020. — 150 p. — ISBN-10 : 3030399184; ISBN-13 978-3030399184. This book tells the story of government-sponsored wiretapping in Britain and the United States from the rise of telephony in the 1870s until the terrorist attacks of 9/11. It pays particular attention to the 1990s, which marked one of the most dramatic turns in the history of telecommunications...
Granada Publishing, 1978. — 356 p. Excellent book, exactly as the title reads, and from a prolific American-Irish writer (some 35 books). 'Connie' FitzGibbon was born in America to Irish parents; served in the British Army, then joined the American Army during World War Two. So what qualifies him as an 'expert' on espionage and counter-intelligence? He was a British officer in the...
Fleming Press, 2016. — 67 p. The crew of the USS Liberty is the most decorated crew since World War II and among the most decorated for a single engagement in the entire history of the United States Navy. Virtually unarmed, America's premier Spy-Ship was attacked while in international waters by Israeli planes and torpedo boats on 8 June 1967. 34 US Sailors and Marines were...
Department of the Army Field Manual. — US Department of the Army, 1968. — 30 p. Purpose. Scope. Terminology. General . Mission. Function. Organization. Capabilities. Limitations. Training. Signal communications. Planning and Preparation . General. Planning and preparation. Coordination. Control. Combat support. Combat service support. Security. Conduct of Operations . General....
Doubleday, 1949. — 192 p. British citizen Alexander Foote was recruited into a Soviet network of spies against Nazi Germany. Based in Switzerland, Foote was responsible for maintaining the network and forwarding information to the Centre in Russia. Foote describes how the network operated, including codes and secret transmissions, hiding from Swiss and German authorities,...
Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2015. — 228 p. “I owe it to many people, and to myself, to set the record straight. There have been many versions of parts of the story in the press over the years, many lies overlaid with truths and truths overlaid with lies. Much of the truth is just a palimpsest, an echo that changes even in the act of repeating it, but this is my story." In the...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 357 p. Esref Kusçubasi remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the man sometimes called the "Turkish Lawrence of Arabia" is far less known but his life offers fascinating insights into the traumatic, increasingly violent struggles that ended the Ottoman Empire and ushered in the modern Middle East. Drawing on...
Cape Town: S.W. Fourie, 2021. — 303 p. This is the story of Schalk W Fourie’s ten years in the elite South African Army Special Forces, commonly known as the “Recces.” SW started his military career as a national serviceman at 1 Special Service Battalion, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He volunteered for Special Forces and a year later, after completing the hardest Special...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 262 p. In August 1942, the Allies launched a raid against the German-held port of Dieppe on the French channel coast. It was largely a disaster, with the Canadian forces bearing the brunt of the catastrophe. However, it wasn't all a failure, and history has tended to overlook the role of 4 Commando, who, along with their US Ranger counter-parts, landed...
The History Press, 2016. — 240 p. When Germany occupied the originally ‘demilitarised’ Channel Islands in 1940, Hitler ordered the area to be staunchly fortified with colossal permanent structures like Battery Moltke on Jersey. As it was the only piece of the British Isles in Nazi control, he was determined that the islands should remain German forever. Churchill was equally...
The History Press, 2008. — 312 p. Michael Collins's personality and covert actions fascinated both the Irish population and his British enemies, who sought repeatedly to capture him. Setting the secret war firmly within the context of the Irish capital at the time, the author draws on an extensive range of primary sources – including documents which have only recently been...
IOP Publishing, 1993. — 325 p. Operation Epsilon was the codename of a covert program in which Allied forces near the end of World War II detained ten German scientists who were thought to have worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear program. The scientists were captured between May 1 and June 30, 1945, as part of the Allied Alsos Mission, mainly as part of its Operation Big sweep...
St. Martin’s Press, 2008. — 448 p. For five centuries, the Vatican—the oldest organization in the world, maker of kings and shaper of history—has used a secret spy service, called the Holy Alliance, or later, the Entity, to carry out its will. Forty popes have relied on it to carry out their policies. They have played a hitherto invisible role confronting de-Christianizations and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1977. — 249 p. The U.S. Intelligence Community The Estimating Process. The Missile Gap. Greater-Than-Expected Threats. An Invulnerable Deterrent. The Sentinel Decision The Nixon Administration: Protecting Minuteman Through Safeguard Protecting Minuteman Through SALT Preparing for the Threat: 1972–1976. US Intelligence and the Soviet Strategic Threat.
Pen and Sword, 2001. — 224 p. Seldom out of the news for long, code-breaking has had a bad time in the media so far, readers and viewers often finding it as perplexing as it is intriguing. As one of the greatest achievements of the century, code- breaking is a fascinating story, but all too often misunderstood and felt to be obscure. The author covers the story from the early...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 71 p. This research paper examines how special operations were conducted in Yugoslavia during World War II; how did the operational art conducted fit into Allied grand strategy; and how effective were these operations? These operations were conducted using multinational, coalition forces, and for this reason the lessons from this examination are...
ABC-CLIO, 2015. — 798 p. This two-volume history of counterinsurgency covers all the major and many of the lesser known examples of this widespread and enduring form of conflict, addressing the various measures employed in the attempt to overcome the insurgency and examining the individuals and organizations responsible for everything from counterterrorism to infrastructure...
Helion and Company, 2012. — 224 p. — ISBN 978-1908916600. This all-new work chronicles the experiences of Paul French who, upon leaving the British Army's 21 SAS (V), sought adventure and excitement in C Squadron of the Rhodesian SAS. Upon passing the arduous Rhodesian SAS selection course, Paul was thrown into the maelstrom that was the Rhodesian Bush War. Here he participated...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022. — 287 p. The insights are fresh, fascinating, and, for practitioners, actionable. Since antiquity, information has been used in conflict―to deceive, to demoralize, to sow fear among enemy troops. Not until the twentieth century, though, did information operations become so central to war. In Info Ops, the authors assess the evolving role and...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 320 p. A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler s generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets. At the outbreak of World War Two, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners' cells were to be bugged and...
Hachette Books, 2016. — 256 p. Two years before the action in Lone Survivor, a special elite team of Green Berets conducted a very different, successful mission in Afghanistan's notorious Pech Valley. Led by Captain Ronald Fry, Hammerhead Six applied the principles of unconventional warfare to "win hearts and minds" and fight against the terrorist insurgency. In 2003, the...
Reprinted. — Center for Cryptologic History National Security Agency, 2017. — 165 p. With a Supplement on Cryptography in the Border Guard (formerly Armed Public Security Forces), 1959-1989. Introduction to 2017 Edition. Foreword. Notes on the Translation. Facsimile of Original Title Page, Epigraph, and Photos. The Genesis of the Cryptographic Branch of the People’s Army of...
Potomac Books, 2014. — 337 p. James Gannon examines the impact of many major incidents, such as the Zimmerman telegram interception, deciphering the German Enigma machine, the Soviets' damaging penetration of the British Foreign Service through the ""Cambridge Five"" spy ring, and the U.S. counterintelligence coup known as Operation Venona (classified until 1995).
Routledge, 2005. — 315 p. This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe after World War II. These secret soldiers were trained on remote islands in the Mediterranean and in unorthodox...
The New Press, 2019. — 288 p. From one of America's leading legal minds, a riveting look at the U.S.-Cuban relationship seen through the lens of a nearly impossible case. During his distinguished career, Martin Garbus has established himself as a well-known trial lawyer representing the likes of Daniel Ellsberg and Leonard Peltier. But there is no story Garbus wants to tell...
LME, 2011. — 181 p. Retrouvez dans ce livre les espions les plus efficaces, les complots les plus astucieux, les opérations les plus ratées et les faits les plus surprenants de l’histoire de l’espionnage. La perpétuelle lutte entre le Bloc communiste et les nations « libres » de l’Ouest occupe bien sûr la plus grande part, non seulement parce que les archives sont désormais...
MIT Press, 2014. — 392 p. Espionage and covert operations are notoriously difficult to study, writes Mark Kramer in his introduction to Spies: A Batch from Journal of Cold War Studies. Historically, intelligence agencies the world over have strived to keep their operations confidential; however, the gradual release of crucial information about Cold War-era foreign intelligence...
University of Ottawa Press, 2015. — 292 p. Years of surveillance-related leaks from US whistleblower Edward Snowden have fuelled an international debate on privacy, spying, and Internet surveillance. Much of the focus has centered on the role of the US National Security Agency, yet there is an important Canadian side to the story. The Communications Security Establishment, the...
Pegasus Books, 2010. — 496 p. After eight challenging years in Afghanistan, the new U.S. strategy, aimed at winning hearts and minds rather than search-and-destroy, refocuses the conflict on Special Forces: unorthodox soldiers who work outside of traditional military forces to combine secret military operations with nation building. Tony Geraghty, an expert author in this field...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2010. — 368 p. With roots in imperialism and the nineteenth-century mindset of the "Great Game," Western nations have waged an intricate spy game this past century to establish control over the Middle East, secure access to key resources and regions of commerce, and prevent the spread of Soviet communism into the region. From the Suez Canal to the former...
Mimesis, 2019. — 111 p. Esiste una guerra silenziosa. Le armi sono invisibili, gli schieramenti fluidi e di difficile identificazione. Potrebbe sembrare una spy story da romanzo, eppure vicende come quella degli attacchi informatici avvenuti nel corso delle ultime elezioni americane sono soltanto alcuni tra i più eclatanti episodi di cyber war, una realtà a metà strada tra...
Milano: Ponte alle Grazie Editore, 2009. — 392 p. Nessun libro come quello che avete in mano fornisce un’introduzione completa, appassionante, progressiva e persino, sotto molti aspetti, pratica a tutti gli aspetti della moderna attività d’intelligence. Attingendo a molteplici esempi tratti dalle attività dei servizi italiani, statunitensi, israeliani, inglesi, francesi,...
Ponte alle Grazie, 2009. — 395 p. Nessun libro come questo fornisce un’introduzione completa, appassionante, progressiva e persino, sotto molti aspetti, pratica a tutti gli aspetti della moderna attività d’intelligence. Attingendo a molteplici esempi tratti dalle attività dei servizi italiani, statunitensi, israeliani, inglesi, francesi, tedeschi, cinesi, vaticani ecc., Aldo...
Ponte alle Grazie, 2018. — 284 p. La globalizzazione ha cambiato il Mondo, si sa, ma questo non è vero in ugual misura nei vari tipi di attività: ce ne sono che hanno avuto cambiamenti limitati, mentre altri hanno registrato mutamenti molto più profondi e veloci. L'intelligence è forse il settore dove il processo è stato più radicale. Oggi è l'intelligence in prima persona a...
Ponte alle Grazie, 2012. — 243 p. Dopo "Come funzionano i servizi segreti", Aldo Giannuli torna a scrivere d'intelligence, affrontando uno degli aspetti meno conosciuti e più controversi dell'attività dei servizi: il modo in cui manipolano e utilizzano l'informazione. Se è convinzione diffusa che essi divulghino notizie solo parzialmente vere o del tutto false, tuttavia sono...
Abrams, 2020. — 288 p. This true story of Golden Age Hollywood and Cold War espionage is a "captivating, fast-paced narrative that reads like a thriller" (Library Journal). Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda,...
Routledge, 2017. — 241 p. This book analyses changes in intelligence special governance and offers a comparative analysis of intelligence democratisation. Within the field of Security Sector Reform (SSR), academics have paid significant attention to both the police and military. The democratisation of intelligence structures that are at the very heart of authority.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 273 p. Among the greatest developments in conventional war since 1914 has been the rise of air/land power the interaction between military intelligence services, air forces and armies in military operations at North Africa. This book examines the forging of an air support system that was used with success for the remainder of the war, the principles of...
Potomac Books, 2019. — 384 p. 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, in the post–Cold War period there are no signs of this enthusiasm diminishing. The opening of...
Boydell and Brewer, 2015. — 252 p. The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not only of their victims but also of the vast networks of informants and collaborators upon whom their totalitarian systems depended. These records, now open to the public in many former Eastern Bloc countries, reflect a textually mediated reality that...
Bloomsbury, 2019. — 216 p. Somewhere deep in the archives of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) in the heart of New Delhi lies a set of papers that researchers and historians interested in recording the history of Indian intelligence, would love to get their hands on. Alas, those documents-transcripts of tape-recorded conversations with RN Kao, the legendary spy...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 392 p. Global Intelligence Oversight is a comparative investigation of how democratic countries can govern their intelligence services so that they are effective, but operate within frameworks that are acceptable to their people in an interconnected world.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. — 213 p. Mata Hari Today The Pattern of a Plot Gestapo at Home Gestapo in Spain Franco's Fifth Column The Hooded Ones in France Torpedoes in Vienna Spies March East Hitler Meets a Tartar, Female The Bear and the Wolves Spymaster over Asia What They Want of Us
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2007. — 320 p. Drawing on oral testimony, previously unseen personal papers, and newly released archival information, this book provides a comprehensive account of British and American intelligence on the Soviet nuclear weapons program from 1945-1958. The book charts new territory, revising traditional accounts of Anglo-American...
Public Affairs, 2021. — 496 p. As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis,...
Routledge, 2020. — 212 p. This book tells the dramatic story of the recruitment and training of a group of German communist exiles by the London office of the Office of Strategic Services for key spy missions into Nazi Germany during the final months of World War II. The book chronicles their stand against the rise of Hitler in 1930s that caused them to flee Germany for...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2020. — 505 p. An invaluable piece of literature for students of intelligence studies and cognate disciplines. A highly recommended reference text for understanding the characteristics of intelligence in about two dozen Asian countries. The editor succeeded in compiling many different pieces in English about countries that are largely absent from...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 327 p. The book was written during the cold war and was classified for 40 years. The majority of this manual, however, is now finally available to the general public. An abridged version, Anticipating Surprise: Analysis for Strategic Warning, was published, but this original document goes into much greater detail about the fundamentals of intelligence...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 208 p. — ISBN10 1526772817; ISBN13 978-1526772817. This is the third and final ‘stand-alone’ account of C Squadron SAS’s thrilling operations against the relentless spread of communist backed terrorism in East Africa. Drawing on first-hand experiences the author describe operations against communist-backed terrorists in Angola and Mozambique,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 208 p. This is the third and final ‘stand-alone’ account of C Squadron SAS’s thrilling operations against the relentless spread of communist backed terrorism in East Africa. Drawing on first-hand experiences the author describe operations against communist-backed terrorists in Angola and Mozambique, aiding the Portuguese and Renamo against the...
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. — 190 p. Much has been said and written about the failure of U.S. intelligence to prevent the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and its overestimation of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction under Saddam Hussein. This book focuses instead on the central role that intelligence-collection systems play in promoting arms control...
Ebury Press, 2010. — 352 p. Meet Sergeant 'Bommer' Grahame, one of the deadliest soldiers on the battlefield. He's an elite army JTAC (Joint Terminal Attack Controller- pronounced 'jay-tack') - a specially trained warrior responsible for directing Allied air power with high-tech precision. Commanding Apache gunships, A10 tank-busters, F15s and Harrier jets, he brings down...
Read Books, 2021. — 338 p. Taking it, then, that pragmatical notions of this sort have become almost an implicit condition of individual progress, it would seem to serve little purpose seriously to go into the question of the wrongfulness or the rightfulness of spying as a factor in the struggle for complete self-expression - itself the real aim of all ordered and prearranged...
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1915. — 338 p. The worldly philosophy of the current age bears the name of Pragmatism, the principles of which, so far as they are susceptible of being weighed, constitute a more or less modified view of the doctrine that the end justifies the means, a teaching which has become familiar to us through the pages of Nietzsche and Stendhal,...
Frontline Books, 2014. — 286 p. A magnificent biography which finally provides recognition to one of Bletchley's and Britain's lost heroes. Michael Smith The Official Secrets Act and the passing of time early have prevented the Bletchley Park story from being told by many of its key participants. Here at last is a book which allows some of them to speak for the first time....
Frontline Books, 2017. — 200 p. The infamous ‘Valkyrie’ assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944 failed to kill the German Führer. It did not succeed simply because von Stauffenberg’s briefcase containing the explosives was moved behind one of the stout wooden legs of the conference table, resulting in the blast being deflected away from Hitler. It was a very close...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 343 p. This book explores the secret police organizations of East Asian dictators: origins, operations, and effects on ordinary citizens' lives. How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in Asia - how...
St. Martin's Press, 2015. — 368 p. The old world of spying-dead-letter boxes, microfilm cameras, an enemy reporting to the Moscow Center, and a hint of sexual blackmail-is history. The spymaster's technique has changed and the enemy has, too. He or she now frequently comes from a culture far removed from Western understanding and is part of a less well-organized group. The new...
Pen and Sword Books, 2018. — 200 p. SWAT teams, GSG9, EKO Cobra, SCO 19 – these elite police units are used to dealing with dangerous situations, particularly in the fight against global terrorism. European political-economic journalist and author, Judith Grohmann, is the first outsider to be given access into the world of specialist counter-terrorism units in 16 countries...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 308 p. This book investigates the emergence of an EU strategic intelligence community as a complex multi-dimensional networked construction. It examines the constitution, structure and performance of EU intelligence arrangements as part of security policies of the European Union. Intelligence security has become a remarkable feature of the European...
Ledizioni, 2017. — 340 p. Che rapporto intercorre tra l’Intelligence e la politica internazionale? Quale tipo di variabile può essere considerata per la teoria delle relazioni internazionali? Quale valore strategico hanno le “armi cibernetiche”? Come i big data cambiano il processo di Intelligence? Quale ruolo gioca l’economia nel contesto post-bipolare?Questo libro tenta di...
Spellmount, 2012. — 192 p. The Women of Intelligence is a fascinating exploration of the secret war work carried out by women, including Churchill's daughter, during World War II. This book includes many previously unpublished photographs and entertaining interviews. During World War II an ornate Victorian mansion, overlooking the River Thames at Medmenham, in Buckinghamshire,...
Dundurn, 2006. — 252 p. Since 9/11, Canada has been on the front lines of a New World Order that few understand. And in this world, intelligence is not just the first line of defence – it may be the only one. Editor Dwight Hamilton has assembled an all-star cast of former intelligence officers and journalists to take you inside the covert and dangerous world of espionage and...
Routledge, 2006. — 481 p. Traditionally the military community held the intelligence profession in low esteem, spying was seen as dirty work and information was all to often ignored if it conflicted with a commander's own view. Handel examines the ways in which this situation has improved and argues that co-operation between the intelligence adviser and the military decision maker...
Routledge, 2012. — 360 p. New information obtained from the declassification of Ultra intercepts and other Second World War documents as well as from recent scholarly research has credited Allied deception operations with an even more important contribution to winning the war than was previously supposed. Yet deception is only one factor in the achievement of victory; it cannot...
Routledge, 2003. — 233 p. A detailed secret account of the way Israel dealt with the Iraqi nuclear buildup between its launch in 1974 and the destruction of the Tamuz I reactor on 7 June 1981. This updated account includes formerly classified information and photographs taken during the mission and from US spy satellites.
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 225 p. Accounts of the relationships between states and terrorist organizations in the Cold War era have long been shaped by speculation, a lack of primary sources and even conspiracy theories. In the last few years, however, things have evolved rapidly. Using a wide range of case studies including the KGB's Abduction Program, Polish Military Intelligence...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 281 p. Accounts of the relationships between states and terrorist organizations in the Cold War era have long been shaped by speculation, a lack of primary sources and even conspiracy theories. In the last few years, however, things have evolved rapidly. Using a wide range of case studies including the British State and Loyalist Paramilitaries in Northern...
Corsair, 2021. — 432 p. A brilliantly researched and revelatory book, written with compelling authority and great narrative drive. Love & Deception is the extraordinary story of how Eleanor, an able, cultured American living in the espionage hot spot of 1950s Beirut, fell in love with the kindest, most sensitive of men. Unknown to her, that man, a Lebanon-based journalist, Kim...
Boydell Press, 2007. — 224 p. Alongside the familiar pitched battles, regular sieges, and large-scale manoeuvres, medieval and early modern wars also involved assassination, abduction, treason and sabotage. These undercover operations were aimed chiefly against key individuals, mostly royalty or the leaders of the opposing army, and against key fortified places, including...
Da Capo Press, 2019. — 288 p. A thrilling wartime adventure special story of downed American aviators rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden in the City of Lights under the very noses of the Gestapo. Escape from Paris is the true story of a small group of U.S. aviators whose four B-17 Flying Fortresses were shot down over German-occupied...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Pres, 2013. — 433 p. British and American commanders first used modern special forces in support of conventional military operations during World War II. Since then, although special ops have featured prominently in popular culture and media coverage of wars, the academic study of irregular warfare has remained as elusive as the practitioners of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 432 p. British and American commanders first used modern special forces in support of conventional military operations during World War II. Since then, although special ops have featured prominently in popular culture and media coverage of wars, the academic study of irregular warfare has remained as elusive as the practitioners of special...
Penguin, 2020. — 873 p. The end of Europe's empires has so often been seen as a story of high politics and warfare. In Tim Harper's remarkable new book the narrative is very different: it shows how empires were fundamentally undermined from below. Using the new technology of cheap printing presses, global travel and the widespread use of French and English, young radicals from...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 512 p. Years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a loosely organized insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians, with devastating results. In this sobering account of the ongoing violence, Ahmed Hashim, a specialist on Middle Eastern strategic issues and on irregular warfare,...
Amber Books, 2013. — 348 p. The Second World War saw elite units take a prominent role on the battlefield for the first time. The Encyclopedia of Elite Forces in World War II is a wide-ranging guide to the excellent units on land, sea or in the air whose success was usually hard-won against the odds, and whose actions had an impact on the course of the fighting around them. The...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. — 246 p. The history of secret intelligence, like secret intelligence itself, is fraught with difficulties surrounding both the reliability and completeness of the sources, and the motivations behind their release—which can be the product of ongoing propaganda efforts as well as competition among agencies. Indeed, these difficulties...
Stanford University Press, 2014. — 246 p. The history of secret intelligence, like secret intelligence itself, is fraught with difficulties surrounding both the reliability and completeness of the sources, and the motivations behind their release—which can be the product of ongoing propaganda efforts as well as competition among agencies. Indeed, these difficulties lead to the...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2006. — 417 p. Alliance of Enemies tells the thrilling history of the secret World War II relationship between Nazi Germany's espionage service, the Abwehr, and the American OSS, predecessor of the CIA. The actors in this great as-yet-untold story were often at odds with their respective governments. Working in the face of competing ideologies and at great...
ABC-CLIO, 2003. — 241 p. Espionage: A Reference Handbook illuminates the murky underworld of espionage and counterespionage efforts in the United States and around the world. Combining an academic treatment of the causes and forces that shape espionage with narrative accounts of how spying and spy catching are conducted, this is the only work of its kind to cover Benedict Arnold,...
Neri Pozza, 2016. — 734 p. Questo libro si occupa di alcune delle persone più affascinanti che presero parte alla Seconda guerra mondiale. Un esercito di uomini e donne che, non sparando un solo colpo, influirono profondamente sull'esito degli eventi: spie, crittoanalisti, guerriglieri che condussero una guerra segreta per carpire informazioni e strategie del nemico. Dalla...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. — 672 p. From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. — 672 p. From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan...
Italian language. — Vicenza: 2016. — 644 p. — ISBN: 978-88-545-1477-5 Questo libro si occupa di alcune delle persone più affascinanti che presero parte alla Seconda guerra mondiale. Un esercito di uomini e donne che, non sparando un solo colpo, influirono profondamente sull’esito degli eventi: spie, crittoanalisti, guerriglieri che condussero una guerra segreta per carpire...
Times Books, 1980. — 230 p. On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. D-Day was a stunning military accomplishment, but it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the Double Cross system, which specialized in turning German spies...
Open Road Media, 2014. — 258 p. The thrilling true story of the daring double agents who thwarted Hitler's spy machine in Britain and turned the tide of World War II. After the fall of France in the mid-1940s, Adolf Hitler faced a British Empire that refused to negotiate for peace. With total war looming, he ordered the Abwehr, Germany's defense and intelligence organization,...
Open Road Media, 2014. — 257 p. The thrilling true story of the daring double agents who thwarted Hitler's spy machine in Britain and turned the tide of World War II. After the fall of France in the mid-1940s, Adolf Hitler faced a British Empire that refused to negotiate for peace. With total war looming, he ordered the Abwehr, Germany's defense and intelligence organization,...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2002. — 228 p. Robert Philip Hansen thought he was smarter than the system. For decades, the quirky but respected counterintelligence expert, religious family man, and father of six, sold top secret information to agents of the Soviet Union and Russia. A self-taught computer expert, Hansen often encrypted his stolen files on wafer-thin disks. The...
House of Anansi Press, 2014. — 128 p. Does government surveillance make us safer? The thirteenth Munk Debate, held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pitted Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedom. In a risk-filled world, democracies are increasingly turning to...
Simon and Schuster, 2014. — 320 p. Based on recently de-classified MI5 files and previously unpublished sources, 'Hitler's Spy' is the story of a secret Battle of Britain, fought by double-agent Arthur Owens and his opposing spymasters, Thomas 'Tar' Robertson of MI5 and Nikolaus Ritter of the Abwehr, as well as the tragic love triangle between Owens, his wife Irene, and his...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 220 p. In Bullets Not Ballots, Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning "hearts and minds" is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support, denies support to the insurgency, and makes military victory possible. Hazelton argues...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 220 p. In Bullets Not Ballots, Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning "hearts and minds" is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support, denies support to the insurgency, and makes military victory possible. Hazelton argues...
Casemate, 2014. — 288 p. The amazing life of Pieter Krueler (1885-1986) provides a window into a full century of conflict such as one man rarely experiences. Four-War Boer traces Krueler's highly colorful life from the Second Boer War, where he first served as a 14-year-old scout, through his service in World War I with the German army in East Africa, to the Spanish Civil War...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 320 p. Clandestine radio operators had one of the most dangerous jobs of World War II. Those in Nazi-occupied Europe for the SOE, MI6 and the OSS had a life-expectancy of just six weeks. In the Gilbert Islands the Japanese decapitated 17 New Zealand ‘Coastwatchers’. These ‘behind the lines’ highly skilled agents’ main tasks were to maintain...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 392 p. This excellent and well-written study is the first that analyzes and compares structural restraints on counterterrorism responses in the U.S., Germany, Great Britain and France. For students of national security, comparative politics and public policy this is a must read on how different governmental structures set the parameters...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 197 p. Six decades after the end of World War II, new stories about the conflict continue to emerge. One of these is the subject of this book. As the book explains, the Shelburne was one of the later escape lines that operated within Nazi-occupied Europe. It was established at the end of 1943 by two agents who worked for MI-9, the London-based military...
Public Affairs, 2015. — 512 p. In the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world’s great mindsto rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an inventor, adventurer, polymath, and unlikely hero of both world wars. He earned a fortune on the stock market, founded an influential pre-school, wrote a bestseller, and came up with the idea for the US and Canadian Special...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2007. — 192 p. The gathering of information by the Intelligence Services is now an issue of major importance in the modern world. But what are the ethical responsibilities of these bodies.? How is that intelligence collected, assessed and used? What is the impact and significance of the new protective state that has been constructed in Whitehall over the...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 352 p. Why do spies have such cachet in the twentieth century? Why do they keep reinventing themselves? What do they mean in a political process? This book examines the tradition of the spy narrative from its inception in the late nineteenth century through the present day. Ranging from John le Carr?’s bestsellers to Elizabeth Bowen’s novels, from...
South End Press, 1982. — 268 p. The broad purpose of this book is to show the nature, roots and vast scope of the real terror network—the U.S. -sponsored "authoritarian" states—and to examine the ways in which the magnificent propaganda machinery of the west has covered this over and substituted in its place a lesser, and frequently concocted, network that includes—by careful...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 414 p. In Deutsch's phrase, systems of knowing are part of the 'nerves of government'. Modern government has many such systems, most of them geared to routine functions: taxation, lawand-order, social security, vehicle licensing, and so on. Other organizations also have their own information systems; and 'intelligence' is sometimes...
Routledge, 2001. — 268 p. Intelligence was a central element of the Cold War and the need for it was expected to diminish after the USSR's collapse, yet in recent years it has been in greater demand than ever. The atrocities of 11 September and the subsequent "war on terrorism" now call for an even more intensive effort. Important questions arise on how intelligence fits into...
Grupo Planeta, 2016. — 384 p. En estas páginas el lector se encontrará con algunos de los episodios más sorprendentes de la contienda, con los intentos de acabar con la vida de los grandes líderes, con las redes de espionaje más eficientes; también con los mejores agentes dobles y sus misiones imposibles.Espías de Hitler es un recorrido por los entresijos de los servicios de...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2012. — 306 p. Desde los primeros gobiernos hasta la actualidad, los agentes secretos, los agentes dobles o los informadores han sido usados para dar ventaja a unos pueblos sobre otros. Presentes en la Biblia, en la historia y, por supuesto, en el imaginario popular, los espías producen una mezcla de admiración y repulsa difícil de explicar. Breve Historia...
Hot Books, 2016. — 117 p. They tell the truth about big business, big money, and governments around the world. But what happens to them when they have no more to tell? Whistleblowers try to save lives—and too often pay with their own. When insiders like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden, ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley or Big Tobacco truth-teller Jeffrey Wigand blow the whistle on...
The Overlook Press, 2011. — 512 p. Now, for the first time, the classified official history of the entire operation, written by Roger Hesketh as Allied counter-intelligence experts were gathering the evidence of what had been accomplished in early 1945, has been declassified and released. In Fortitude the intricate details of this fantastic diversionary scheme - replete with...
University of Toronto Press, 2002. — 304 p. Spying 101 provides new insight on the previously secret operations of one of Canada's most powerful institutions and best-known national symbols, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For more than eighty years, the RCMP and its younger counterpart, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), have been conducting covert...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 246 p. Cold war helicopter ace Terry Peet lived for flying. He was a ‘go anywhere, do anything,’ Royal Air Force pilot with a reputation for ‘sheer guts’. Whether ferrying troops to remote jungle landing zones or snatching casualties from makeshift clearings surrounded by two-hundred-feet high trees, he willingly pushed himself and his primitive Sycamore...
US Air Force Academy Press, 1991. — 355 p. — (Proceedings of the Thirteenth Military History Symposium, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 12-14, 1988). It is commonplace within and outside the intelligence community to acknowledge the predominant role of technology in the collection, dissemination, and even analysis of information. Whit roots traceable...
Vintage, 2005. — 224 p. In this riveting insider’s account, a former inspector general of the CIA compares actual espionage cases and practices with classic and popular spy fiction, showing that the real world of espionage is nearly always stranger and more complicated than even the best spy fiction. Exploring everything from tradecraft and recruitment to bureaucracy and betrayal,...
Washington: Combat Operations Research Group, 1958. — 29 p. The analysis presented in this memorandum illustrates some of the manifold errors in military intelligence. The data are drawn from the actions of V US Corps in Normandy, France, between 6 and 13 June and on 30 June 1944. Reliable statistical inferences cannot be drawn because of the paucity of material collected in the...
Santa Monica: Rand Corp., 1991. — 107 p. — ISBN 0-8330-1123-5. This report examines the counterinsurgency campaign waged by Rhodesia between 1965 and 1980. Its purpose is to analyze the lessons learned from the Rhodesian conflict and assess the relevance of these lessons both to United States low intensity conflict training and doctrine and to the insurgencies occurring at this...
Santa Monica: The Rand Corporation, 1985. — 64 p. This Note assesses the effectiveness of a selected samile of raids executed by small commando and commando-type forces in response to terrorist threats or attacks. One hundred raids by irregular forces (guerrilla groups, terrorist organizations, and private individuals) and elite units (organized military units belonging to a...
Biteback Publishing, 2012. — 324 p. The arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States was the most dangerous confrontation in the history of the world. Nikita Khrushchev's decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, and John F. Kennedy's willingness to call his bluff, brought the Soviet Union and the West to the edge of a cataclysmic nuclear war. Kennedy's confidence...
Scribner, 2010. — 1168 p. In World War II, the Allies employed unprecedented methods and practiced the most successful military deception ever seen, meticulously feeding misinformation to Axis intelligence to lead Axis commanders into erroneous action. Thaddeus Holt's elegantly written and comprehensive book is the first to tell the full story behind these operations. Exactly...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 255 p. A brilliant exposé of how Kim Philby—the master-spy and notorious double agent—became the mentor, and later, mortal enemy, of James Angleton, who would eventually lead the CIA. Kim Philby's life and career has inspired an entire literary genre: the spy novel of betrayal. Philby was one of the leaders of the British counter-intelligence efforts,...
W.W. Norton, 1982. — 317 p. The thrilling true story of Lt. Colonel Pyotr Popov, the first agent the CIA recruited within the Soviet intelligence service. Reads like the best of le Carre -- but fact. William Hood, author of Mole, was CIA Operations Chief in Vienna in 1952 when he helped recruit Major Pyotr Popov, America’s first double agent in Soviet Military intelligence....
Helion and Company, 2013. — 311 p. Koevoet! has been an global bestseller since its release over 20 years ago. This new edition goes far beyond the original in capturing the courage, fear and intensity of South Africa's deadly bush war. Never before had an outsider been given unrestricted access to Koevoet, the elite South West African Police counterinsurgency unit - also known...
Scholastic Press, 2015. — 339 p. Critically acclaimed Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings to bold life the remarkable story of the Danish resistance and rescue of over 7,000 Jews during WWII. When the Nazis invaded Denmark on Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. The government of Denmark...
Adelphi, 2004. — 624 p. Davanti al palazzo dell'emiro di Buchara, due uomini in cenci sono inginocchiati nella polvere. A poca distanza, due fosse scavate di fresco, e tutt'intorno una folla sgomenta, che assiste in un silenzio irreale. Non è certo insolito che l'emiro faccia pubblico sfoggio di crudeltà, ma è la prima volta che il suo talento sanguinario si esercita su due...
Kodansha Globe, 1997. — 448 p. An acclaimed historian tells, for the first time, the full story of the conspiracy between the Germans and the Turks to unleash a Muslim holy war against the British in India and the Russians in the Caucasus. Drawing on recently opened intelligence files and rare personal accounts, Peter Hopkirk skillfully reconstructs the Kaiser's bold plan and...
John Murray, 2006. — 448 p. Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim. Here, told...
Dundurn Press, 2007. — 325 p. Special Operations Forces (SOF) have never been an integral element of Canada's military capability. Although units have existed periodically throughout the country's history, they have always been in the shadows. However, the terrorist attack in the United States on September 11, 2001, changed that. In the aftermath of 9/11, SOF became the force of...
Dundurn, 2016. — 240 p. An examination of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), its accomplishments, and the Canadian connection to the organization. During the Second World War, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to conduct acts of sabotage and subversion, and raise secret armies of partisans in German-occupied Europe. With...
Dundurn Press, 2016. — 224 р. The first in-depth book that sheds light on Canada's elite warriors who operate in the shadows. In 2001, the Canadian government sent elements of its Joint Task Force 2 counter-terrorist unit to Afghanistan to assist the Americans with Operation Enduring Freedom and the global war on terror. Withdrawn a year later, after a brief hiatus JTF 2...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2019. — 302 p. In 1958, the U.S. Air Force nuked the moon as a show of military force. In 1967, the CIA sent live cats to spy on the Soviet government. In 1942, the British built a torpedo-proof aircraft carrier out of an iceberg. Of course, none of these things ever actually happened. But in Nuking the Moon, intelligence historian Vince Houghton...
Vision, 2003. — 288 p. The USS Liberty was attacked by unmarked planes and torpedo boats in international waters during the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab States. The attack on the surveillance ship lasted 75 minutes -- 34 men died and 172 were injured. Initially it was thought that either Egypt or the U.S.S.R. was responsible, but astonishingly Israel, the U.S.'s...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 380 p. Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler. From 1933, these spy services watched with growing alarm as they tried to determine what sort of threat Hitler's regime would now pose to the rest...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 380 p. Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler. From 1933, these spy services watched with growing alarm as they tried to determine what sort of threat Hitler's regime would now pose to the rest...
I.B. Tauris, 2012. — 265 p. Today's intelligence community faces challenges that would have been inconceivable only a dozen years ago. Just as al-Qaeda s destruction of the Twin Towers heralded a revolution in global diplomacy, the events of 9/11 also threw two centuries of spy-craft into turmoil because this new enemy could not be bought. Gone were the sleepers and moles whose...
I.B. Tauris, 2012. — 225 p. Today's intelligence community faces challenges that would have been inconceivable only a dozen years ago. Just as al-Qaeda s destruction of the Twin Towers heralded a revolution in global diplomacy, the events of 9/11 also threw two centuries of spy-craft into turmoil because this new enemy could not be bought. Gone were the sleepers and moles whose...
Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000. — 381 p. This book tells the stories behind some of the world's most disastrous military mistakes, whether caused by faulty information, bad interpretation, cunning plans to deceive the intelligence gatherers or leaders who won't listen to what they are told. It is an analysis of the ''intelligence cycle'' that turns raw data into useful...
Riverhead Books, 2020. — 336 p. A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under contract...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 256 p. Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state intelligence organisation that played a pivotal role...
Focal Point, 2001. — 368 p. A fascinating history of the V-2 rocket from both sides of the English Channel. It is a detailed, authoritative look at wartime allied intelligence gathering and interpretation, risk assessment, and strategies to inform, prepare, and protect the public from this indefensible threat on the British side, opposed by the technical, production, political,...
MacDill Air Force Base, Florida: The JSOU Press, 2019. — 230 p. From the Dean Foreword About the Author Support to Resistance as a Tool of Disruption Support to Resistance as a Tool of Coercion Support to Resistance to Enable Regime Change Appendix Acronyms Endnotes
Public Affairs, 2009. — 352 p. The story of the Special Forces in World War II has never fully been told before. Information about them began to be declassified only in the 1980s. Known as the Jedburghs, these Special Forces were selected from members of the British, American, and Free French armies to be dropped in teams of three deep behind German lines. There, in preparation...
Book Tower Publishing, 2014. — 480 p. The original history of Bletchley Park's Hut 6 was considered so sensitive, it was only declassified in June 2006. For the first time the wider public can read the story of Bletchley Park's epic battle with the Enigma-enciphered messages of the German Army and Air Force, as written by the codebreakers and edited by John Jackson. This...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 176 p. The struggle with Communist terrorists in Malaya known as The Emergency became a textbook example of how to fight a guerrilla war, based on political as much as military means. This book deals with both the campaign fought by British, Commonwealth and other security forces in Malaya against Communist insurgents, between 1948 and 1960, and also the...
Robson Books, 1983. — 216 p. First broad attempt at a history of the Allied squadrons that dropped agents and supplies behind enemy lines. Includes much material from Squadron diaries and operations records. Reveals the secret missions flown by special units of the RAF and USAAF in WWII.
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 256 p. The Second World War saw a host of heroic raids enacted across the various theaters, all delivered valiantly in a variety of ways by British combatants; on land, by sea and from the air. Daring exploits such as the raid on Rommel, the endeavors of the Cockleshell Heroes and the Dam Busters have become legendary in the annals of warfare. All feature...
Routledge, 2020. — 245 p. This book investigates everyday practices of intelligence cooperation in anti-terrorism matters, with a specific focus on the relationship between Europe and Britain. The volume examines the effective involvement of British anti-terrorism efforts in European cooperation arrangements, which until now have been overshadowed by the UK-US ‘special...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. — 307 p. Spies and Saboteurs is the story of the origins of the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' in human intelligence collection and special operations, which took place amidst the global conflagration that was the Second World War. It is the story of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan - the father of America's Central Intelligence Agency - and of his...
Rohan Vij, 2019. — 195 p. Most discussions on electronic media and intellectual forums about the effects of globalization on national security focus on violent threats. Notwithstanding the plethora of books, journals and research papers on national and international security, there is an iota research work on issue of interconnectedness. The interconnectedness of violent...
VIJ Books, 2020. — 274 p. The imbalance of Pakistan’s civil-military relations has caused misperceptions about the changing role of intelligence in politics. The country maintains 32 secret agencies working under different democratic, political and military stakeholders who use them for their own interests. Established in 1948, The ISI was tasked with acquiring intelligence of...
Vij Books, 2020. — 230 p. European intelligence cooperation is in crisis as the majority of member states do not share their national secrets. The EU maintains numerous institutions, networks, and databases for collaboration and intelligence sharing with partner services in Europe and beyond, but they are reluctant to share real intelligence information. This book highlights...
Vij Books, 2019. — 259 p. This book discusses the longest Intelligence war in Afghanistan and the important role that the Intelligence agencies play in it. Globalisation continues to challenge our world at unprecedented speed. Technological innovations, changing geographical developments, regional rivalries, and destruction of national critical infrastructures in several Muslim...
New Academia Publishing, 2017. — 182 p. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and original data, this book examines the political and security evolution of Tunisia’s national intelligence in the post-independence era. It investigates the sophistication of the intelligence complex under Bin ʿAlī and its central role in entrenching his authoritarian rule. The increased politicization of...
Boulder: Paladin Press Book, 1996. — 206 p. — ISBN 0-87364-902-8. Running a ring of spies is no mission impossible with this tell-all primer. Find out the secrets of the world's best spies and peep into the real world of a Bangkok madam-turned-secret agent, Aldrich Ames, U.S. Embassy guards, Kim Philby and garden-variety corporate spies. Find out how to get the goods on the bad...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 312 p. 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. First we put our faith in them to help win wars, then we turned against the bloodshed and...
Georgetown University Press, 2020. — 320 p. The first full account of Nazi spies in 1930s America and how they were exposed. In the mid-1930s just as the United States was embarking on a policy of neutrality, Nazi Germany launched a program of espionage against the unwary nation. The Nazi Spy Ring in America tells the story of Hitler's attempts to interfere in American affairs...
Success First Publishing, 2014. — 62 p. Learn about the Many Raids + Read the Stories of Heroic Soldiers of World War II. Any war will have its fair share of raids, but World War II's raids, like much of the rest of the war, have gone down in history, and their results have had a lasting impact on its course. Pick up your copy of this book to learn about some of the crucial...
UBC Press, 2008. — 241 p. Kurt F. Jensen argues that Canada was a more active intelligence partner in the Second World War alliance than has previously been suggested. He describes Canada’s contributions to Allied intelligence before the war began, as well as the distinctly Canadian activities that started from that point. He reveals how the government created an intelligence...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 430 p. This is the first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign that was waged against anarchist terrorism from 1878 to the 1920s. Anarchist terrorism was at that time the dominant form of terrorism and for many continued to be synonymous with terrorism as late as the 1930s. Ranging from Europe and the Americas to the...
Mareuil Éditions, 2021. — 168 p. Sergueï Jirnov est un ancien espion du KGB, François Waroux a été officier traitant à la DGSE. Le premier a opéré au sein du service des « illégaux » pour l’URSS, notamment pour infiltrer l’ENA, le second a agi sous couverture à travers le monde au nom de la France. Après avoir longtemps œuvré dans l’ombre pour deux camps opposés, ces deux...
Ulysses Press, 2021. — 280 p. Discover the fascinating true stories of spies and secret agents throughout history in this ultimate collection of espionage trivia. Whether you’re a wannabe 007 or just a fan of subterfuge, the fun facts and legendary stories in this big book of spy trivia are sure to shock and fascinate. Discover how the most infamous spy organizations like the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2004. — 352 p. Originally a TV tie-in expanded from the BBC television series, the book covers the behind-the-scenes aspects of the fight by the 'back room' scientists and technicians of WW2, including the battles against the Luftwaffe navigational beams, the V-1 and V-2 flying bombs, the development of radar, the battle against the u-boats, countering...
Routledge, 2006. — 401 p. 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 intelligence: collection-and-analysis; covert action; and counterintelligence. Within each of these missions, the dynamically written essays dissect the so-called intelligence cycle to reveal the challenges...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 375 p. The notion of counter-insurgency has become a dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This volume brings together international academics and practitioners to evaluate the broader theoretical and historical factors that underpin COIN, providing a critical reappraisal of counter-insurgency...
New Press, 2016. — 369 p. In November 1983, Soviet nuclear forces went on high alert. After months nervously watching increasingly assertive NATO military posturing, Soviet intelligence agencies in Western Europe received flash telegrams reporting alarming activity on U.S. bases. In response, the Soviets began planning for a countdown to a nuclear first strike by NATO on...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2021. — 256 p. — ISBN 10 132400620X. — ISBN 13 978-1324006206. How three key figures in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns that are eroding Western power. Conventional warfare ― clashes between large military forces ― defined twentieth-century power. But today, facing a dominant American military, principal adversaries...
Stanford University Press, 2021. — 237 p. Canada is a key member of the world's most important international intelligence-sharing partnership, the Five Eyes, along with the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. Until now, few scholars have looked beyond the US to study how effectively intelligence analysts support policy makers, who rely on timely, forward-thinking insights...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 403 p. Given the rivalries and suspicions prevailing in the Middle East, it is not surprising that most of these states are very concerned about espionage and infiltration. With the additional threat of terrorism, nuclear weapons, a large U.S. military presence, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the result is an impressively busy intelligence industry,...
Einaudi, 1948. — 236 p. Dal 1917 a oggi, interventi armati, intrighi diplomatici, operazioni di quinte colonne, sabotaggi, guerre, nel quadro della Grande congiura contro l’URSS dominano la politica mondiale. Chiunque si preoccupa del benessere presente e futuro del mondo dovrebbe leggere La grande congiura. Non mi è noto che sia stato recato un maggior contributo alla causa...
CRC Press, 2014. — 453 p. Spies, secret messages, and military intelligence have fascinated readers for centuries but never more than today, when terrorists threaten America and society depends so heavily on communications. Much of what was known about communications intelligence came first from David Kahn's path-breaking book, The Codebreakers.
Frontline Books, 2012. — 416 p. For almost four desperate years, from 1939 to mid-1943, the British and American navies fought a savage, losing battle against German submarine wolfpacks. The Allies might never have turned the tide without an intelligence coup. The race to break the German U-boat codes is one of the greatest untold stories of World War II. Kahn expertly brings...
Praeger, 2019. — 264 p. In the post-World War II era, the Soviet Union and the United States wanted to gain the advantage in international security. Both engaged in intelligence gathering. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of the espionage game. For more than four decades after World War II, the quest for intelligence drove the Soviet Union and...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2008. — 384 p. This memoir explores the author's 33 years in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State and follows him and his family around the world. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, it describes living in Libya during the Qadhafi takeover and an attempt by a Russian spy to recruit him. Finally, there is a chapter on his life...
Routledge, 2022. — 354 p. This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. It discusses how religious groups were perceived as dangerous to the totalitarian state whilst also being extremely vulnerable and yet at the same time very resourceful. It explores how this particular...
Hanover Square Press, 2020. — 368 p. The inside story of the close-knit alliance between two of the world’s top intelligence services and how one joint operation of decisive vengeance became a turning point in the historic battle against the Islamic State and the elimination of its top leadership. No Shadows in the Desert reveals the untold story of the behind-the-scenes fight...
Concord Publications, 1995. — 254 p. The Illustrated Guide to the World's Top Counter-Terrorist Forces is written by Samuel M. Katz and published by Concord Publications Company. The book is a massive 254 page compendium on the elite forces that wage a silent war to keep the public safe. It comes with commentary, color and black and white photos. The book is new and unread.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 253 p. The EU has long been seen as confederation that has failed to assert itself effectively on the international stage. In this collection, a series of experts discuss how the EU has shed its reputation as a weak international actor in light of its policies on Police and Intelligence services cooperation and intelligence-sharing as part of the...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 208 p. Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey's study of Canada's security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caught up in the Red Scare in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and tangled up with the imperial security interests of first the United Kingdom and then the United States.
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 255 p. Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey's study of Canada's security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caught up in the Red Scare in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and tangled up with the imperial security interests of first the United Kingdom and then the United States.
Knopf, 2003. — 315 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4000-4193-0. In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about military...
Casemate Publishers, 2021. — 255 p. For almost half a century, the hottest front in the Cold War was right across Berlin. From summer 1945 until 1990, the secret services of NATO and the Warsaw Pact fought an ongoing duel in the dark. Throughout the Cold War, espionage was part of everyday life in both East and West Berlin, with German spies playing a crucial part of operations...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 320 p. The untold story of Bletchley Park's key role in the success of the Normandy campaign. Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis’ codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence...
Blink Publishing, 2022. — 416 p. The Secret History of The Five Eyes: The untold story of the international spy network, is a riveting and exclusive narrative of the most powerful and least understood intelligence alliance, which has been steeped in secrecy since its formation in 1956. Richard Kerbaj, an award-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker, bypasses the usual...
Enigma Books, 2004. — 535 p. Walter G. Krivitsky (nee Samuel Ginsburg) was one of the U.S. government's most valuable weapons in the wars of intelligence and espionage, from his 1938 defection from the Soviet Union during Stalin's reign of terror to his mysterious death in a Washington hotel in 1941. But not until this meticulously researched work has the range and depth of his...
Oldcastle Books, 2022. — 224 p. Capital punishment was abolished for murder in Great Britain in 1969, but remained as the punishment for high treason until as recently as 1998, demonstrating how seriously we take the crime of betraying your country. But even with the threat of the noose hanging over them, many still chose the path of treachery during the cataclysmic events of...
Crown, 2015. — 304 p. The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy...
Pustak Mahal, 2011. — 168 p. The most comprehensive work on the subject ever written, World Famous Spies & Spymasters endeavours to cover the entire history of espionage through many famous spies and spymasters across the world. It includes photographs and drawings of those world famous spies and spymasters and presents information about what happened to many notorious spymasters...
Hurst, 2016. — 328 p. Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-48 by British officer Major General Robert Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an under-developed and obscure agency. In 1979, the organisation's growing importance was felt during the Soviet war in Afghanistan , as...
The History Press, 2015. — 224 p. In the autumn of 1942, British Special Operations Executive agent Ronald Sydney Seth was parachuted into German occupied Estonia, supposedly to carry out acts of sabotage against the Nazis in a plan code-named Operation Blunderhead. Uniquely, it was Seth and not the SOE who had engineered the mission, and he had no support network on the ground....
The History Press, 2015. — 224 p. In the autumn of 1942, British Special Operations Executive agent Ronald Sydney Seth was parachuted into German occupied Estonia, supposedly to carry out acts of sabotage against the Nazis in a plan code-named Operation Blunderhead. Uniquely, it was Seth and not the SOE who had engineered the mission, and he had no support network on the...
Page Two Books, 2021. — 255 p. An ex-spy lifts the lid on life in the secret service. Andrew Kirsch didn’t grow up watching spy movies, or dreaming about being a real-life James Bond. He was hardly aware that Canada even had its own intelligence service―let alone knew what its officers did. But when a terrorist attack occurred near the office of his financial services job, all...
University of Chicago Press, 2007. — 241 p. From 1940 to 1942, French secret agents arrested more than two thousand spies working for the Germans and executed several dozen of them—all despite the Vichy government’s declared collaboration with the Third Reich. A previously untold chapter in the history of World War II, this duplicitous activity is the gripping subject of The Hunt...
Harper Collins, 2017. — 286 p. A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat--cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 273 p. The April 1945 journey of FDR’s funeral train became a thousand-mile odyssey, fraught with heartbreak and scandal. As it passed through the night, few of the grieving onlookers gave thought to what might be happening behind the Pullman shades, where women whispered and men tossed back highballs. Inside was a Soviet spy, a newly widowed Eleanor...
University of North Carolina Press, 1996. — 280 p. The Amerasia affair was the first of the great spy cases of the postwar era. In June 1945, six people associated with the magazine Amerasia were arrested by the FBI and accused of espionage on behalf of the Chinese Communists. But only two, the editor of Amerasia and a minor government employee, were convicted of any offense, and...
Encounter Books, 2019. — 288 p. By the time he died under mysterious circumstances in Paris in 1979 at the age of sixty, David Karr had reinvented himself numerous times. His remarkable American journey encompassed many different worlds—from Communist newspapers to the Office of War Information, from muckraking columnist to public relations flack, from corporate raider to...
Basic Books, 2006. — 384 p. On September 5, 1945, cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko severed ties with the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, reporting to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police allegations of extensive Soviet espionage in North America, providing stolen documents detailing Soviet intelligence matters to back his claims. This action sent shockwaves through Washington, London, Moscow,...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1980. — 468 p.
The first full history of spies, spying, and the intelligence bureaucracy, from the author of The Philby Conspiracy.
In 1909, the business of spying was hoisted from the domain of a few European descendents to the highest reaches of British government with the formation of Britain's SIS. Acting in response to a totally...
Fully revised edition with two new chapters. — London: Pimlico, 2003. — 516 p. — ISBN 1-8441-3091-6. The first full history of spies, spying, and the intelligence bureaucracy, from the author of The Philby Conspiracy. In 1909, the business of spying was hoisted from the domain of a few European descendents to the highest reaches of British government with the formation of...
General Store Publishing House, 2014. — 312 p. Take a peek at a world where you have to convince the bad guys that you are one of them, while at the same time "maintaining the right" — the motto of the RCMP. An absorbing, first-hand account of working undercover told by someone who took part in some major sting operations.This true-crime book is based on the life of Staff...
University Press of Kansas, 2003. — 240 p. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India, which had just fought a border war with its northern neighbor, were both justifiably concerned. The CIA knew it needed more information on China's growing nuclear capability but had few ways of peeking behind the Bamboo Curtain. Because of the extreme...
Havertown: Casemate, 2021. - 352 p. A gripping first-hand account of the combat operations and life of a member of the secretive and elite South African Special Forces, known as ‘Recces’. South African Special Forces, known as the ‘Recces’, are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary...
Regnery Publishing, 2012. — 269 p. Recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, exploring how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double agents and communist sympathizers—most notably Harry Dexter White—to lead Japan into war against the United States, proposing...
Amazon Crossing, 2011. — 414 p. 1981. Ronald Reagan and François Mitterrand are sworn in as presidents of the Unites States and France, respectively. The tension due to Mitterrand’s French Communist support, however, is immediately defused when he gives Reagan the Farewell Dossier, a file he would later call “one of the greatest spy cases of the twentieth century.” Vladimir...
Amazon Crossing, 2011. — 414 p. 1981. Ronald Reagan and François Mitterrand are sworn in as presidents of the Unites States and France, respectively. The tension due to Mitterrand’s French Communist support, however, is immediately defused when he gives Reagan the Farewell Dossier, a file he would later call “one of the greatest spy cases of the twentieth century.” Vladimir...
Seria: II Wojna Światowa. — Warszawa: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1986. — 80 s. — ISBN 8303014897 Różnorodne działania wywia dowcze, prowadzone już w okresie pokoju i niezmiennie to warzyszące walce orężnej, są istotną częścią dziejów najnowszych, w szczególności historii wojen. Są zarazem dla badaczy dzie dziną trudną, gdyż nawet po upływie dziesięcioleci dotarcie do...
MJF Books, 2011. — 171 p. From Mata Hari through to Noor Inyat Khan, women spies have rarely received the recognition they deserve. They have often been trivialized and, in cinema and popular fiction, stereotyped as vamps or dupes. The reality is very different. As spies, women have played a critical role during wartime, receiving and passing on vital information, frequently at...
Standord: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, 1986. — 260 p., ill. Despite efforts to wall off the USSR, Soviet borders have proven less than defector-proof. Determined defectors have found cracks in the wall. The defections of Lenin Prize winner Anatoly Fedoseev, ballet Stars Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov, MiG-25 pilot Wiktor Belenko, and U.N....
Air Force History and Museums Program, 1996. — 516 p. Focuses on how airmen built intelligence organizations during World War Two to collect and process information about the enemy and how they produced and disseminated this intelligence to decision-makers and warfighters. John F. Kreis, general editor of this work.
Harrassowitz, 2017. — 282 p. The Wakhan Quadrangle became an arena of colonial competition when four powers - Afghanistan, China, Great Britain and Russia - struggled for dominance in a remote mountain region where only scattered communities lived in a challenging environment - called the "Great Game". Prior to this, various international travellers had been sent out,...
Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2020. — 404 s. — ISBN 978-83-8180-436-3 Działalność sowieckich służb specjalnych, wokół których narosło wiele legend, wzbudza-pomimo ograniczeń wynikających z braku szerszego dostępu do archiwów rosyjskich - duże zainteresowanie wśród historyków i wszelkiego rodzaju ekspertów. Jest to przede wszystkim spowodowane tym, iż niewątpliwie należały...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 232 p. The spy business often results in a sudden exchange of the dark shadows of the clandestine back room for the bright lights of the open courtroom. The situations that judges and juries face in espionage cases are typically more unusual, complex, and diverse than one might possibly imagine. Cecil C. Kuhne III describes a number of...
Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 336 р. The untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy. In 1960, President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans had ever heard of. Washington feared the country would...
Stanford University Press, 2017. — 128 p. Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror. When not decried as traitors, they are seen as whistle-blowers whose crucial revelations are meant to denounce a problem or correct an...
St. Martins Press, 2018. — 290 p. Full Battle Rattle tells the legend of a soldier who served America in every war since Vietnam. Master Sergeant Changiz Lahidji served on Special Forces A teams longer than anyone in history, completing over a hundred combat missions in Afghanistan. Changiz is a Special Forces legend. He also happens to be the first Muslim Green Beret. Changiz...
Random House, 1986. — 344 p. A memoir of former FBI special agent Lamphere's involvement in the post World War II spook sweep in the US, reading like a slice of Cold War history with a generous dash of John Le Carre spy intrigue. The author chronicles his work with the FBI in uncovering the Rosenberg spy network, including Judi. The names, we sometimes say, have been changed...
Dialogue, 2016. — 368 p. The "White Lady" spy net stretched across Europe, encompassing more than one thousand agents and producing 70 percent of Allied intelligence on the German forces in the First World War. Through sheer ingenuity, it maintained a staggeringly complex network of spies deep behind enemy lines, who provided vital information on troop movements to and from the...
St. Martin's Press, 2012. — 272 p. In this book highly acclaimed author and intelligence expert Brian Latell offers a strikingly original view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba's supreme spymaster. Based on interviews with high level defectors from Cuba's powerful intelligence and security services, long-buried secrets of Fidel's nearly 50-year reign are exposed for the first...
Polity Press, 2016. — 378 p. We live in an era dominated by terrorism but struggle to understand its meaning and the real nature of the threat. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed survey of the topic, Randall Law makes sense of the history of terrorism by examining it within its broad political, religious and social contexts and tracing its development from the ancient...
Paris: Éditions Regard sur le monde, 2013. — 276 p. Comment les services secrets assurent-ils la sécurité intérieure aujourd’hui ? Qui et comment recrutent-ils et quelles sont leurs méthodes de manipulation ? Comment les recrues sont-elles sélectionnées, formées et entraînées ? Quel est le quotidien des employés et des agents au 21e siècle ? Comment la privatisation des...
Emerald Publishing, 2019. — 273 p. This book examines the evolution of state entities' surveillance in modern societies and provides an international perspective on several influential trends that have affected intelligence activities during the past 25 years. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, state surveillance and intelligence activities in Western...
Ibis Press, 2012. — 256 p. Ratline is the documented history about the mechanisms by which thousands of other Nazi war criminals fled to the remotest parts of the globe—including quite possibly Adolf Hitler. It is a story involving Soviet spies, Nazi priests, and a network of Catholic monasteries and safe houses known as the ratline. The name of one priest in particular, Monsignor...
Collins Publishers, 2011. — 605 p. The story of how this web was woven is one of intrigue, personal drama, ground-breaking techniques, internal resistance, and good fortune. It is a tale of double agents, black radio broadcasts, phantom armies, 'Ultra' decrypts, and dummy parachute drops. These diverse tactics were intended to come together to create a single narrative so...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 323 p. Secret Missions to Cuba reveals new insights into Fidel Castro's personality, details secret missions to Cuba under the Carter and Reagan administrations to negotiate the restoration of US-Cuban relations and provides an in-depth look at Miami's exile community since 1959. This groundbreaking story is told through Bernardo Benes - a lawyer who...
Walker Books, 2010. — 586 p. Deception exposes the terrifying truth about the proliferation of nuclear weapons amongst the rogue states, secret services and terrorist organizations which now threaten to destabilize the entire world. This book is essential reading for fans of Seymour Hersh, Richard Preston, Mark Bowden, and Jason Burke. On 15 December 1975, A. Q. Khan - a young...
Juggernaut, 2021. — 334 p. From 9/11 to 26/11, Burhan Wani to Kulbhushan Jadhav – the India–Pakistan relationship told from the perspective of the R.A.W. and the I.S.I. With unprecedented access to the R.A.W. and the I.S.I., the world’s most inscrutable spy agencies, Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark describe the workings of bitter rivals, mapping their complicated history from...
Juggernaut, 2021. — 334 p. From 9/11 to 26/11, Burhan Wani to Kulbhushan Jadhav – the India–Pakistan relationship told from the perspective of the R.A.W. and the I.S.I. With unprecedented access to the R.A.W. and the I.S.I., the world’s most inscrutable spy agencies, Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark describe the workings of bitter rivals, mapping their complicated history from...
Harper Press, 2012. — 528 p. The Kashmir Kidnapping that changed the face of modern terrorism. In July 1995, ten Western backpackers take a trip of a lifetime. hey have come in search of many things – nirvana, exhilaration, a sense of self. But over the course of the next week, their holidays take a terrifying turn when they become entangled in a nail-biting hostage drama that...
London: Vision Paperbacks, 2005. — 247 p. — ISBN: 1-904132-57-X. Investigating the secret societies, spies, classified projects, cults, and pacts that controlled the destinies of nations and empires, this historical exposé reveals the conspiracies that have changed the course of history. From the dirty dealings of the Louisiana Purchase and the Iran-Contra affair to the Trojan...
Hutchinson, 1982. — 332 p. The story of the contribution made to the Second World War in Europe and North Africa by Ultra, the intelligence derived from the decipherment of the Germans' Enigma-coded signals, is now well known. Ronald Lewin's The Other Ultra, based on contemporary secret documents only recently released, tells for the first time the story of the immense...
Little Brown Book Group, 2013. — 288 p. 09-00 hours, 11th September, 2012. Darkness cloaks the American Embassy in Libya. The flag is flying at half-mast, to commemorate the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on America. Without warning one hundred heavily armed fighters emerge from the night and blast the Embassy gates asunder.The savage siege of the American...
Arrow, 2007. — 512 p. In the Afghan wild lands, British and American special forces soldiers ate, slept, fought and died alongside each other - working in close-knit units the likes of which have rarely been seen since the Second World War. This is the story of the trials and exploits, the victories and defeats, of one of those units. This book takes us from the first ever...
Cornerstone Digital, 2018. — 434 p. Cobra Gold is a fast moving story built around the biggest bank robbery the world has ever seen. The story starts with a highly professional bank-heist in Beirut, in 1976. The SAS team that breaks in are faced with a prize of staggering and unexpected proportions, then as courage, greed, opportunism and recklessness starts to unfold you get...
Quercus Publishing, 2017. — 448 p. In the Spring of 1940, as Britain reeled from defeats on all fronts and America seemed frozen in isolation, one fear united the British and American leaders like no other: the Nazis had stolen a march on the Allies towards building the atomic bomb. So began the hunt for Hitler's nuclear weapons - nothing else came close in terms of priorities. It...
Quercus, 2014. — 324 p. Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting from conflict zones around the world. Zero Six Bravo—a Sunday Times number one bestseller—tells the story of “sixty special forces against 100,000—a feat of arms to take the breath away.” (Frederick Forsythe) They were branded as cowards and accused desertion. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ten...
Robinson, 2015. — 390 p. “Special Operations are defined as operations conducted by specially trained, equipped and organized Department of Defense forces against strategic or tactical targets in pursuit of national military, political, economic or psychological objectives. These operations may be conducted during periods of peace or hostilities. They may support conventional...
Robinson, 2015. — 512 р. In this encyclopedic book, Lewis provides insights into the origins, training, tactics, weapons and achievements of special forces and special mission units throughout the world, focusing particularly on US and UK forces. He also looks at the codes that that bind the members of these elite units together. He reveals training secrets in everything from...
Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016. — 103 p. This book delayed in the historical comics style! Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent by Germany's Enigma machines during World War II. The work of Turing and his colleagues at Hut 8 created what became known...
Open Road Media, 2016. — 359 p. At the height of the Cold War, some of the nation’s most precious secrets passed through a CIA contractor in Southern California. Only a handful of employees were cleared to handle the intelligence that came through the Black Vault. One of them was Christopher John Boyce, a hard-partying genius with a sky-high IQ, a passion for falconry, and...
Springer, 2021. — 235 p. This book explores the conundrum that political fortune is dependent both on social order and big, constitutive crime. An act of outrageous harm depends on rules and protocols of crime scene discovery and forensic recovery, but political authorities review events for a social agenda, so that crime is designated according to the relative absence or...
Routledge, 2018. — 244 p. This book describes and analyzes the history of the Mediterranean "Double-Cross System" of the Second World War, an intelligence operation run primarily by British officers which turned captured German spies into double agents. Through a complex system of coordination, they were utilized from 1941 to the end of the war in 1945 to secure Allied...
Chantilly: The Great Courses, 2011. — 224 p. Introducing the Secret World Ancient Espionage Medieval and Renaissance Spying Spies of the Elizabethan Age Spies in the Age of Discovery Espionage in the American Revolution Spying of the European Great Powers U.S. Civil War Spies in Blue and Gray The Great Game of Empires Spy Phobia before World War I Mata Hari and Company in World...
Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2009. — 228 p. The New Zealand Police Armed Offenders Squads are never far from the headlines. Called out to the wost-case scenarios in which lives are in danger, their exploits make them a media magnet. But despite this, little is known about the people behind the masks. In conjunction with the TV documentary series Line of Fire, this book...
Berkley, 2016. — 384 p. James Bond has nothing on British double agent Dusko Popov. As an operative for the Abwehr, SD, MI5, MI6, and FBI during World War II, Popov seduced countless women―including agents on both sides―spoke five languages, and was a crack shot, all while maintaining his cover as a Yugoslav diplomat. On a cool August evening in 1941, a Serbian playboy created a...
St. Martin's Press, 1997. — 672 p. A hugely controversial work that exposes a series of scandals from Oliver North to the British royal family, The Secret War Against the Jews reveals as much about political corruption inside Western intelligence as it does about Israel. Using thousands of previously top-secret documents and interviews with hundreds of current and former spies,...
Routledge, 2019. — 176 p. Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies provides a global introduction to the role of intelligence – a key, but sometimes controversial, aspect of ensuring national security. Separating fact from fiction, the book draws on past examples to explore the use and misuse of intelligence, examine why failures take place and address important ethical...
Routledge, 2019. — 159 p. Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies provides a global introduction to the role of intelligence – a key, but sometimes controversial, aspect of ensuring national security. Separating fact from fiction, the book draws on past examples to explore the use and misuse of intelligence, examine why failures take place and address important ethical...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 288 p. The Cold War, which lasted from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was fought mostly in the shadows, with the superpowers maneuvering for strategic advantage in an anticipated global armed confrontation that thankfully never happened. How did the intelligence organizations of the major world powers...
Fortis Novum Mundum, 2023. — 251 p. From Roman Speculatores to the NSA: Evolution of Espionage and Its Impact on Statecraft and Civil Liberties by Josh Luberisse is an essential scholarly resource that meticulously traces the evolution of espionage from its ancient roots to its modern manifestations. This comprehensive study is indispensable for academics, historians,...
Fortis Novum Mundum, 2023. — 251 p. From Roman Speculatores to the NSA: Evolution of Espionage and Its Impact on Statecraft and Civil Liberties by Josh Luberisse is an essential scholarly resource that meticulously traces the evolution of espionage from its ancient roots to its modern manifestations. This comprehensive study is indispensable for academics, historians,...
Fortis Novum Mundum, 2023. — 251 p. From Roman Speculatores to the NSA: Evolution of Espionage and Its Impact on Statecraft and Civil Liberties by Josh Luberisse is an essential scholarly resource that meticulously traces the evolution of espionage from its ancient roots to its modern manifestations. This comprehensive study is indispensable for academics, historians,...
Fortis Novum Mundum, 2023. — 251 p. From Roman Speculatores to the NSA: Evolution of Espionage and Its Impact on Statecraft and Civil Liberties by Josh Luberisse is an essential scholarly resource that meticulously traces the evolution of espionage from its ancient roots to its modern manifestations. This comprehensive study is indispensable for academics, historians,...
Fortis Novum Mundum, 2023. — 251 p. From Roman Speculatores to the NSA: Evolution of Espionage and Its Impact on Statecraft and Civil Liberties by Josh Luberisse is an essential scholarly resource that meticulously traces the evolution of espionage from its ancient roots to its modern manifestations. This comprehensive study is indispensable for academics, historians,...
Walker Books, 2012. — 304 p. From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. In Deception Edward Lucas uncovers the real story of Chapman and her colleagues in Britain and...
Crown Publishing Group, 2014. — 252 p. Ben Macintyre is a great writer and, in this latest book, he has turned his attention to Kim Philby – one of the Cambridge Spies. Historically, this book may not offer much that is new, but it does tell the story from a different viewpoint; that of his friendships, most notably with Nicholas Elliott. In other words, this is not really a...
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007. — 384 p. One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. The problem for Chapman,...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. — 870 p. Agent Zigzag: One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, inside the traitor was a hero, inside the villain, a man of conscience:...
Crown, 2012. — 416 p. In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory. In Double Cross, Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the war and of the extraordinary...
Crown Publishing Group, 2018. — 368 p. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian...
Pen and Sword Military, 2005. — 224 p. The book describes the problems of instigating resistance in France and the slow development of the clandestine warfare and special operation forces, equipment, training, delivery, communication, command, control and intelligence techniques. It covers the wide variety of organizations involved including OSS, SAS, US Operational Groups, Polish...
Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 224 p. If there was ever anyone who went a little further, a little beyond, it was Alastair MacKenzie. In a career spanning 30 years, MacKenzie served uniquely with the New Zealand Army in Vietnam, the British Parachute Regiment, the British Special Air Service (SAS), the South African Defence Force's famed Para Bats, the Sultan of Oman's Special...
Hachette Australia, 2014. — 382 p. Explosive SAS action in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. The command came: 'Stop those vehicles!' It was like a red rag to a bull. Instantly streams of 7.62 mm tracer and 50 mm calibre machine gun rounds arced across the night sky and smashed into the bus and truck. Elite SAS Patrol Commander Stuart 'Nev' Bonner takes us inside the...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 296 p. Commando, the history Commandos and small-scale raids during World War II, is a gripping narrative, tracing the actions of the fearless men who served as Allied commandos for the Combined Operations department during the war. Kenneth Macksey offers the details of St Nazaire, Bruneval, Dieppe as well as the key players, such as Stirling, Lovat and...
Sharpe Books, 2018. — 352 p. With the renewed interest in wartime intelligence, a timely history of radio intercepting answers the question of how enemy messages are detected in the first place. The focus is on the early war-shortening Y and Radio Intercept Services, and their brilliantly clever inventors and technologists who proved to be unsung heroes with headphones clamped...
Mainstream Publishing, 1990. — 223 p. Fascinating overview of the activities of various organisations who aimed to promote Scottish independence and amazing the lengths the different British and U.S. State's Secret Services goes to to oppose this Independence.
Yale: Yale University Press, 2014. — 392 p. Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies is the first history of invisible ink and secret communications revealed through thrilling stories about scoundrels and heroes and their ingenious methods for concealing messages. Spies were imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked, and battles lost because of faulty or intercepted secret communications....
The MIT Press, 2023. — 216 p. A concise introduction to the history and methods of espionage, illustrated by spy stories from antiquity to today’s high-tech world. Espionage is one of the most secret of human activities. It is also, as the popularity of spy stories suggests, one of the most intriguing. This book pulls the veil back on the real world of espionage, revealing how...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 392 p. Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies is the first history of invisible ink and secret communications revealed through thrilling stories about scoundrels and heroes and their ingenious methods for concealing messages. Spies were imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked, and battles lost because of faulty or intercepted secret communications. Yet,...
Georgetown University Press, 2018. — 289 p. Throughout history and across cultures, the spy chief has been a leader of the state security apparatus and an essential adviser to heads of state. In democracies, the spy chief has become a public figure, and intelligence activities have been brought under the rule of law. In authoritarian regimes, however, the spy chief was and...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 345 p. The years 1945-1961 were a golden age of Western intelligence collection from spies, defectors, and refugees. This book examines the methods of spying and intelligence collection in East and West Germany and assesses the importance of border security to the East German Communist state, the impact of intelligence on the arms race, and the...
Georgetown University Press, 2015. — 311 p. Intelligence agencies spend huge sums of money to collect and analyze vast quantities of national security data for their political leaders. How well is this intelligence analyzed, how often is it acted on by policymakers, and does it have a positive or negative effect on decision making? Drawing on declassified documents, interviews...
Boydell Press, 2016. — 343 p. Decades before the Berlin Wall went up, a Cold War had already begun raging. But for Bolshevik Russia, Great Britain - not America - was the enemy. Now, for the first time, Victor Madeira tells a story that has been hidden away for nearly a century. Drawing on over sixty Russian, British and French archival collections, Britannia and the Bear...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 392 p. In today's world of satellites and electronic spying it is hard to appreciate the difficulties involved two centuries ago in collecting and disseminating secret intelligence in a time of war. This book provides a close-up look at the ingenious methods used to obtain and analyze secret material and deliver it to operational forces at sea...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2020. — 336 p. The captivating story of the valiant Noor Inayat Khan, daughter of an Indian Sufi mystic and unlikely World War II heroine. Raised in a lush suburb of 1920s Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was an introspective musician and writer, dedicated to her family and to her father’s spiritual values of harmony, beauty, and tolerance. She did not seem...
University of North Carolina Press, 2000. — 258 p. Desperate Deception helps fill the gap. It is a very readable account of British covert action in the United States in the years just before and during World War II. Faced with the growing prospect of war with Germany, the British government mounted in 1939 a massive secret political campaign in the United States (including the...
Potomak Books Inc, 2003. — 167 p. Retrouvez dans ce livre les espions les plus efficaces, les complots les plus astucieux, les opérations les plus ratées et les faits les plus surprenants de l'histoire de l'espionnage. La perpétuelle lutte entre le Bloc communiste et les nations " libres " de l'Ouest occupe bien sûr la plus grande part, non seulement parce que les archives sont...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. — 284 p. Was Britain spying on Soviet nuclear activities in Soviet Kazakhstan and Sinkiang from Gilgit between 1945 and 1955? Did MI6 conduct regular military reconnaissance flights over Soviet Russia from airbases in Pakistan?Was the Partition of India advanced so that British nuclear monitoring bases in the Gilgit Agency could be secured? Did...
University Press of Kentucky, 2013. — 264 p. In Hitler's Generals in America, Derek R. Mallett examines the evolution of the relationship between American officials and the Wehrmacht general officers they held as prisoners of war in the United States between 1943 and 1946. During the early years of the war, British officers spied on the German officers in their custody, housing...
Naval Institute Press, 2000. — 192 p. The story of Enigma and the breaking of the seemingly impregnable German codes during World War II is a fascinating one. After World War I, the German admirals were shocked to discover that the Royal Navy had penetrated their secret radio codes. Confronted with this fact, the postwar German navy determined that such a penetration would...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 279 p. This is the first work to engage with intelligence studies through the lens of queer theory. Adding to the literature in critical intelligence studies and critical international relations theory, this work considers the ways in which both the spy, and the activities of espionage can be viewed as queer. Part One argues that the spy plays a role...
London: Printed for A. Wildue, J. Brotherton, 1770. — 312 p. Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year...
London: Printed for A. Wildue, J. Brotherton, 1770. — 264 p. Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year...
London: Printed for A. Wildue, J. Brotherton, 1770. — 263 p. Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year...
London: Printed for A. Wildue, J. Brotherton, 1770. — 286 p. Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year...
London: Printed for A. Wildue, J. Brotherton, 1770. — 257 p. Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year...
London: Printed for A. Wildue, J. Brotherton, 1770. — 249 p. Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year...
London: Printed for A. Wildue, J. Brotherton, 1770. — 286 p. Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year...
London: Printed for A. Wildue, J. Brotherton, 1801. — 255 p. Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year...
Strategic Studies Institute, 2010. — 73 p. This monograph is based on interviews with David Galula's surviving family and friends as well as archival research. It places Galula's two great books in the context of his exposure to Mao's doctrine of revolutionary warfare in China, the French Army's keen interest in counterinsurgency in the second half of the 1950s, and the...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 304 p. Through history armies of occupation and civil power have been repeatedly faced with the challenges of insurgency. US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has highlighted this form of conflict in the modern world. Armies, sometimes reluctantly, have had to adopt new doctrines and tactics to deal with the problems of insurgency and diverse...
Espasa, 2021. — 439 p. Como consecuencia de la Leyenda Negra, la historia de los servicios secretos de la Monarquía Hispánica, con sus luces y sombras, ha sido ninguneada y menospreciada por la mayor parte de los "especialistas" foráneos, y apenas ha sido divulgada, a pesar de su trascendencia en las guerras y en las estructuras políticas de la época. Es un hecho indiscutible...
Lyons Press, 2011. — 232 p. The amazing true story of how British intelligence penetrated and practically operated Nazi Germany's spy network within the British Isles during World War II.
Vintage Books, 2014. — 182 p. The Double-Cross System is an authentic document from within the espionage empire of the Second World War, written as a secret report for the Intelligence Commission and released for publication only in 1972. Quite simply, it tells how Britain used the enemy against themselves. Here is the record of a remarkable triumph. It is an authentic document...
Praeger, 2011. — 168 p. This groundbreaking investigation uncovers serious mismatches between David Galula's counterinsurgency practice in Algeria and his counterinsurgency theory-the foundation of current U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan. Given the centrality of David Galula's theory to U.S. Counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan, it...
The History Press, 2013. — 428 p. It 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 the First World War, a vast network of signals rapidly expanded across the globe, spawning a new breed of spies and...
The History Press, 2013. — 428 p. It 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 the First World War, a vast network of signals rapidly expanded across the globe, spawning a new breed of spies and...
E-book. — Warszawa: Wydawnictwo RM, 2015. — 336 s. — ISBN 9788377733417 Podczas pierwszej wojny światowej szybko rozwijająca się łączność radiowa objęła swym zasięgiem całą kulę ziemską. Równocześnie pojawiła się nowa dziedzina wywiadu wojskowego, zajmująca się szyfrowaniem, odszyfrowywaniem oraz analizowaniem tysięcy radiowych telegramów i meldunków. Radiooperatorzy i...
Big Sky Publishing, 2022. — 405 p. — ISBN 9781922615732, 1922615730. What kind of courage does it take for an ordinary married couple to confront the Nazi regime of Hitler’s vicious Third Reich? And why did two men betray their fellow secret agents after landing on American shores with the intention of carrying out sabotage attacks on a massive scale? Why did the Germans murder...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 396 p. In the mid 1960s, hundreds of kilograms of highly enriched uranium went missing from a nuclear fuel manufacturing plant called NUMEC in Apollo, PA. From the time the Atomic Energy Commission first discovered that significant amounts of this atom-bomb-making material were missing, there was a concern that it went to...
Berlin: 1923. — 95 p. Former recrute of the "Légion Étrangère", the german "spy" Mayer-Gwensen works for the local French propaganda paper "Echo du Rhin", quits and pretends to reveal mechanisms of french propaganda during the occupation of the Rhinelands after World War I.
Independent Publishers, 2017. — 59 p. The Spy With No Name is the unbelievable true story of Erwin van Haarlem, a Cold War secret agent whose stolen identity broke the heart of an innocent woman—who thought she’d found her long-lost son. In 1977, Johanna van Haarlem, 52, finally tracked down the son she had abandoned as a baby, during the Second World War. She was delighted...
Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — 348 p. In 1944, news of secret diaries kept by Italy's Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano, had permeated public consciousness. What wasn't reported, however, was how three women—a Fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American banker’s wife—risked their lives to ensure the diaries would reach the Allies, who would later use them as evidence...
Endeavour Press, 2015. — 400 p. Harry McCallion was a trained killer, fighting in the world’s trouble spots with ruthless professionalism. Born ‘a ragged-arsed kid from the backstreets of Glasgow’, the son of a violent gangster, McCallion joined the Paras to escape a miserable home life and find the family he longed for. After six tense tours in Ulster, McCallion gave up...
Lyons Press, 2016. — 257 p. In The Greatest Special Ops Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about Special Operations that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Marcus Luttrell (author of Lone Survivor), Mark Owen...
Melbourne University Press, 1997. — 304 p. We expect the police to stop armed robbers, to arrest drug dealers, to keep the peace at demonstrations and to protect us from crime. Many of us believe that police officers need to carry guns to protect themselves as well as us. But do we want our police forces to become armies? Most of us are shocked when suspects are shot dead by...
Duke University Press, 2010. — 325 p. In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile government and the governments of India, Nepal, and the United States. Decades later, the story of this resistance is only beginning to be told...
Aurum Press, 2012. — 354 p. This book details the lives of the convert operators that monitored German and Japanese communications, usually coded, and both decoded their transmissions and for the overseas operators, forwarded the information to Bletchley Park. Most operators came under the official secrets act and therefore have been unable to discuss their WW2 activities, even...
CIA, Washington, 1978. — 17 p. The following retlort is a translation from Russian of an article which appeared in Issue No. 2 (81) for 1967 of the SECRET USSR Ministry of Defense publication Collection of Articles of the Journal 'Military Thought". The Tahor ot this article is Lieutenant Colonel Yu. lcorepanov, This article explores NATO reconnaissance capabilities, strength, and...
Gill Books, 2018. — 255 p. When Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services to track the movements of a prolific Nazi spy, Hermann Görtz, it set in motion one of the most remarkable episodes in Irish history. What followed was a high-stakes game of cat and mouse that would wind its way through the capital and its suburbs,...
Gill Books, 2022. — 318 p. Ireland’s Secret War reassesses the legacy of the Irish contribution to the Allied war effort through the voices of those involved at the time. Ireland’s Secret War reveals strategic Nazi intentions for Ireland and the real role of leading government figures of the time, placing Dan Bryan and G2—the military intelligence branch of the Irish Defence...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2010. — 409 p. Provides a thrilling insight into the way SAS soldiers are selected and trained, and reveals fascinating details about recent SAS deployments: East Timor, the 2000 Olympic games, the Tampa, the Afghanistan campaign and the regiment's action-packed mission in Iraq.
Harper Collins, 2018. — 256 p. The little boat with a big past: the fight to save one of the most important artefacts of Australian military history. For many years, thousands of people have walked past an unassuming black timber fishing boat bobbing in the water down at the wharves of Sydney's Darling Harbour. But appearances can be deceptive. This humble little trawler played...
Rowman Publishers, 2005. — 321 p. This powerful work makes a compelling case that U.S. forces secretly condoned and assisted the implementation of Operation Condor, a covert Latin American military network created during the Cold War to facilitate the seizure and murder of political opponents across state borders. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, J. Patrice McSherry...
Hartford: Burr, 1878. — 848 p. A selection of celebrated cases in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, Poland, Egypt, and America; a revelation of struggles and triumphs of the most renowned detectives.
W.W. Norton and Company, 2008. — 416 p. Filled with dramatic revelations, The Lost Spy may be the most important American spy story to come along in a generation.For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI—a footnote buried in the rubble of...
Prometheus Books, 2018. — 432 p. Presents evidence of collaboration between the United States and Israel in an attack on a US naval surveillance vessel during the Six-Day War pointing to collusion between the US government and the Israeli Mossad. On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, an unarmed intelligence ship reporting to the Joint Chiefs of Staff under the auspices of the...
Breton Books, 2016. — 224 p. This book is the story of the (mostly) Canadian raid on Dieppe and adjacent beaches on August 19, 1942--considered the greatest disaster in Canadian military history. John Mellor was there as a commando. He interviewed over 200 people and produced this story of the planing and preparations for the raid, a detailed and personal telling of the men in...
2nd ed. — DK Publishing, 2002. — 208 p. — ISBN 9780789489722. Illustrated with specially commissioned photography and archive material, a guide to the world of espionage covers everything from the daily life of a special agent to the complex world of international agencies.
Pocket Books, 2003. — 444 p. From the author of the Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated Argo, a true-life thriller set against the backdrop of the Cold War, which unveils the life of an American spy from the inside and dramatically reveals how the CIA reestablished the upper hand over the KGB in the intelligence war. Moscow, 1988. The twilight of the Cold War. The KGB is at...
Public Affairs, 2019. — 238 p. rom the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo: how a group of brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives developed breakthrough spy tactics that helped turn the tide of the Cold War. Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War....
Thomas Nelson, 2009. — 591 p. As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a pastor and author, known as much for such spiritual classics as The cost of Discipleship and Life...
McFarland and Company, 2015. — 241 p. Spying in the United States began during the Revolutionary War, with George Washington as the first director of American intelligence and Benedict Arnold as the first turncoat. The history of American espionage is full of intrigue, failures and triumphs--and motives honorable and corrupt. Several notorious spies became household...
Casemate Publishers, 2015. — 280 p. Many books have been written about Second World War special forces operations in Europe and the Middle East. Much less has been said about such operations in South-East Asia those launched against the Japanese in Sumatra and the Andaman Islands, and the Germans in Goa. These operations, and the exceptional men who took part in them, have been...
University of California Press, 1994. — 448 p. Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men--they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literature emerged between the two world...
University of California Press, 1994. — 448 p. Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men--they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literature emerged between the two world...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 812 p. Edward Snowden's leaks exposed fundamental differences in the ways Americans and Europeans approach the issues of privacy and intelligence gathering. Featuring commentary from leading commentators, scholars and practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic, the book documents and explains these differences, summarized in these terms:...
Pimlico, 2005. — 304 p. A colourful portrait of a celebrated, glamorous and daring man who epitomized everything about the life of a spy — and was quite possibly the inspiration for James Bond. A wealthy lawyer, debonair ladies’ man, consummate actor, and courageous gambler, Dusko Popov played the role of playboy among the top echelons of British society to become one of Germany’s...
Time-Life Books, 1983. — 216 p. — (World War II). Covers special commandos and their actions in all Second World War's theaters with hundreds of great photos. Excellent account of the origins of special forces in WWII. Many people are probably familiar with special forces in the military in the 21st century. This volume documents some of the early special forces or commandos...
Little, Brown and Company, 2009. — 228 p. One hundred years ago, in July 1916, an act of terrorism in New York Harbor changed the world. The attack in New York Harbor was so explosive that people as far away as Maryland felt the ground shake. Windows were blown out uptown at the New York Public Library; the main building at Ellis Island was nearly destroyed; Statue of Liberty...
Hachette, 2021. — 416 p. From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it’s never been told before. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution. In reality, once the four powers were no longer united by the common purpose of defeating Germany, they wasted little time reverting to their prewar hostility...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 187 p. The thrilling and inspiring true story of Violette Szabo, the fearless British cloak-and-dagger agent who infiltrated Nazi occupied France. Switchboard operator and volunteer for the Women's Land Army, Violette Szabo was only twenty-two years old when her husband, Etienne, a captain in the French Foreign Legion, died at El Alamein. His...
Allen and Unwin, 2012. — 261 p. The extraordinary tale of how an officer in the highest echelons of Australian policing was caught coordinating an international drug network operation that extended from rebels in the Congo to some of the most feared drug lords in the Netherlands to street gangs in Pakistan and crime figures in Australia's underworld. He was a 'crooked hat', a...
Scholastic Inc., 2018. — 288 p. When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Which was dangerous enough, but as fighting erupted across the continent, instead of returning home, she headed to France. In a country divided by freedom and fascism, Virginia was determined to do her part for the Allies. An ordinary woman from Baltimore, MD,...
Polipoint Press, 2008. — 210 p. British secret service officer Katharine Gun's only crime was telling the truth, but she paid a steep price when she exposed a U.S.-U.K. spy operation to secure UN authorization for the Iraq invasion. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this book tells the story of the young woman Sean Penn describes as "a hero of the human spirit."
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 234 p. In 1944, Ray Mitchell landed in Normandy with his special unit 41 Royal Marine Commando. His role in bringing the Third Reich to its knees was that of dispatch rider. Often operating alone in totally unfamiliar and hostile terrain, he and his motor bike delivered vital messages to forward units. This is a fighting soldier’s account of war - warts...
Enslow Publishers, 2012. — 48 p. Imagine going on dangerous missions like James Bond? Well, real-life spies risk their lives everyday. They will do almost anything to get the job done. But not all spies are heroes. Double agents will even betray their own country to complete their tasks. If caught, the punishment can be death. Author Susan K. Mitchell explores the dangerous...
Routledge, 2007. — 257 p. Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt examines the use and exploitation of intelligence in formulating Britain’s strategy for the Arab Revolt during the First World War. It also presents a radical re-examination of the achievements of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) as an intelligence officer and guerrilla leader. Modern intelligence techniques...
University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 288 p. Established in the 1940s, the Five Eyes intelligence network consists of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The alliance was integral to shaping domestic and international security decisions during the Cold War, yet much of the intelligence history of these countries remains unknown. In The Bridge in the...
University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 288 p. Established in the 1940s, the Five Eyes intelligence network consists of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The alliance was integral to shaping domestic and international security decisions during the Cold War, yet much of the intelligence history of these countries remains unknown. In The Bridge in the...
Penguin Books,, 2007. — 772 p. Brimming with disclosures,A Secret History of the IRAis a story from deep inside the belly of the beast. Spanning three decades and several continents, and based on unprecedented access to the IRA, Ed Moloney reveals the inner workings and furtive plots of the IRA, its link to Arab terrorism and its connection to many international figures, including...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 772 p. Brimming with disclosures, A Secret History of the IRA is a story from deep inside the belly of the beast. Spanning three decades and several continents, and based on unprecedented access to the IRA, Ed Moloney reveals the inner workings and furtive plots of the IRA, its link to Arab terrorism and its connection to many international figures,...
Marshalltown: Sygma/Collins, 1982. - 262 p. This classic account of the Rhodesian war has been re-issued 25 years after it was originally published. It was the first comprehensive military history, presenting a balanced account of the struggle from both sides. The main thrust of the book was the dramatic final years of war. No punches were pulled and the book caused...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 278 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing). — ISBN-13 9783319749648. Свидетели пыток: точки зрения переживших пытки и правозащитников This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written...
Edinburgh University Press, 2013. — 337 p. From memoirs and academic texts to conspiracy-laden exposes and spy novels, the intelligence services' secrecy has never stopped people from writing about espionage. Now, this is the first introduction to these official and unofficial histories. Each chapter showcases new archival material, looking at a particular book or series of...
Georgetown University Press, 2018. — 352 p. In literature and film the spy chief is an all-knowing, all-powerful figure who masterfully moves spies into action like pieces on a chessboard. How close to reality is that depiction, and what does it really take to be an effective leader in the world of intelligence? This first volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens our...
Georgetown University Press, 2018. — 352 p. In literature and film the spy chief is an all-knowing, all-powerful figure who masterfully moves spies into action like pieces on a chessboard. How close to reality is that depiction, and what does it really take to be an effective leader in the world of intelligence? This first volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens our...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 304 p. In this new book, Gavin Mortimer reveals the 12 legendary Special Forces commanders of World War II. Prior to the war, the concept of ‘special forces’ simply didn’t exist, but thanks to visionary leaders like David Stirling and Charles Hunter, our very concept of how wars can be fought and won has totally changed. These 12 men not only reshaped...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 327 p. From Kites to Cold War tells the story of the evolution of manned airborne reconnaissance. Long a desire of military commanders, the ability to see the terrain ahead and gain foreknowledge of enemy intent was realized when Chinese airmen mounted kites to surveil their surroundings. Kite technology was slow to spread, and by the late...
Dundurn Press, 1993. — 177 p. In 1898, Spanish spies based in Montreal, Halifax, and Victoria monitored the United States war effort against their homeland, while U.S. counter-intelligence officials watched the Spaniards. Neither the Americans nor the Spaniards sought Canadian permission for these activities. Britain's enemies (and often America's enemies) have also been...
Allan Wingate-Baker, 1969. — 190 p. — ISBN: 9780093050502. This is the reprint of a 1952 book. It’s a real life story of espionage during the Second World War written from the German point of view. A film, “Five fingers” was made on the basis of this narrative. Later the protagonist was to write his account, “I was Cicero” (1962). More recently a new book on the subject has...
Penn State University Press, 2024. — 264 p. The longest political conflict of the twentieth century, the Cold War, was carried out on the human senses―and through them. Largely conducted through nonlethal methods, it was a war of competing cultures, politics, and covert operations. While propaganda reached targets through vision and hearing, sensory warfare also exploited...
Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1896. — 208 р. Nulle part, dans ces ces récentes publishing, nous n'avons vu signaler un homme qui cependant possédait dès 1805 une grande notoriété, que nomment les biographies de l'époque et dont les historiens, упоминается l'intervention dans la guerre de la troisieme Coalition, Charles Schul meister, le fameux espion de Napoléon I.
Georgetown University Press, 2017. — 252 p. Andrew Mumford challenges the notion of a "special relationship" between the United States and United Kingdom in diplomatic and military affairs, the most vaunted and, he says, exaggerated of associations in the post-1945 era. Though they are allies to be sure, national self-interest and domestic politics have often undercut their...
Yale University Press, 1999. — 580 p. Battleground Berlin is the definitive, insider’s account of the espionage warfare in Berlin between CIA and KGB from 1945 to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Two intelligence veterans—major players on opposite sides of the Cold War—have joined in an unprecedented collaboration to tell the story. Basing their narrative on personal...
Helion and Company, 2014. — 255 p. This is the true story of a young guerrilla commander brought up in a Christian family in Rhodesia, a former colony of Britain. Exposed to the excesses of a colonial regime where race and racism determined one’s status in society, and influenced by the radical anti-racial views of his parents and later of fellow students and work mates, his...
Anchor Canada, 2010. — 416 p. It's 1942 and Hitler's armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on every front. This is the story of how one of the world's first commando units, put together for the invasion of Norway, helped turn the tide in Italy. 1942. When the British generals recommend an audacious plan to parachute a small elite commando unit into...
Scribner, 2017. — 349 p. An intense cat-and-mouse game played between two brilliant men in the last days of the Cold War, this shocking insider’s story shows how a massive giveaway of secret war plans and nuclear secrets threatened America with annihilation. In 1988 Joe Navarro, one of the youngest agents ever hired by the FBI, was dividing his time between SWAT assignments,...
Frontline Books, 2013. — 404 p. Between 1942 and 1945, MI-19, a division of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, created a number of Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centres in and around London. The most important of these centers was at Trent Park, in North London. Sophisticated tapping equipment was installed, and secret gramophone recordings were made...
Allen and Unwin, 2018. — 362 p. Suzanne Spaak was born into an affluent Belgian Catholic family and married into the country's leading political dynasty. Her brother-in-law was the prime minister while her husband Claude was a playwright and patron of the painter René Magritte. In occupied Paris she was part of the cultural elite and a neighbour of Colette and Jean Cocteau. But...
Pen and Sword Books, 2008. — 256 p. Keeping the Atlantic sea-lanes open was a vital factor in the fight against Nazi Germany. In the battle to protect merchant shipping from the menace of surface raiders and U-boats, Allied resolve and resources were tested to the utmost. The story of the extraordinary measures that were taken to combat the threat, at sea and in the air, has...
Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 336 p. Within weeks of the devastation of 9/11, United States Special Operations Forces were dropping into Afghanistan to lead the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Ten years later, the Navy's SEAL Team 6 carried out Operation Neptune Spear to hunt down and kill Osama Bin Laden. In Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia and Mali, the role of Special Ops...
Rosen Publishing Group, 2020. — 288 p. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the main drivers of clandestine activity have been wars, crime, and international espionage. The need to obtain and pass along secret information exists so that one group can gain dominance over another, whether through victory in conflicts, seizure of land, or stealing money. Spies may be a constant, but...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 264 p. Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations is the first book in English to analyse how and why the Yugoslav State Security Service carried out multiple targeted assassinations, over the country's forty-six years of existence, under the pretext of protecting the Yugoslav communist party-state. Offering a detailed history of the programme, from the...
Casemate Publishers, 2019. — 264 p. Uniquely adopting a third-person omniscient point of view, Nightingale eschews the “I” of memoir in favor of multiple perspectives and a larger historical vision that afford equal time and weight to ally and enemy alike. Examples of the many perspectives based on real-life characters include: Hu, a VC “informant” whose false information led...
Sperling Kupfer, 2019. — 310 p. La caccia alle SS inizia negli ultimi giorni di vita del Reich, quando molti gerarchi riescono a fuggire, procurandosi nuove identità. L'immensa documentazione raccolta dagli Alleati durante il processo di Norimberga dimostra le responsabilità di centinaia di nazisti che hanno occupato posti chiave nell'organizzazione dei campi di sterminio. Sono...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 329 p. This study is the first to systematically assemble an original dataset of all American regime change operations during the Cold War. The United States attempted more than 10 times more covert than overt regime changes. The author asks three questions: What motivates states to attempt foreign regime changes? Why do states prefer to conduct...
Routledge, 2010. — 320 p. This book is the first full history of South African intelligence and provides a detailed examination of the various stages in the evolution of South Africa’s intelligence organizations and structures. Covering the apartheid period of 1948-90, the transition from apartheid to democracy of 1990-94, and the post-apartheid period of new intelligence...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 352 p. Bandit Mentality captures Lindsay ‘Kiwi’ O’Brien’s Bush War service from 1976–1980 at the coalface of the Rhodesian conflict. Starting in the BSA Police Support Unit, the police professional anti-terrorist battalion, he served across the country as a section leader and a troop commander before joining the UANC political armies as trainer and...
Mercier Press, 2020. — 208 p. In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on active service at home and abroad, generally without the knowledge of the wider public. The ARW is...
Da Capo Press, 2009. — 264 p. Having barely escaped Germany, several Jewish friends are determined to strike back at the Third Reich while their families languish in concentration camps. After months of training with the U.S. Army, a small group of spies is formed, including several former German soldiers now willing to betray their Führer for the greater good of Germany. The...
Mirror Books, 2019. — 336 p. After years of living in semi-isolation, David Rupert speaks for the first time about how a trucker from New York ended up being recruited to the FBI and MI5 at one of the most crucial moments in British political history. Including shock revelations about Rupert's discoveries working within the Real IRA - such as sending plastic explosives and...
An Intelligence Monograph. — Washington: Center for Study of Intelligence, 1993. — 71 p. This monograph has two parts. The first is an essay on the counterintelligence literature produced from 1977 to 1992. The second contains reviews of selected books from that period. The essay and reviews concentrate on the major counterintelligence issues of the period. Highlighted are the...
Potomac Books, 2012. — 288 p. Since the Iranian Revolution more than thirty years ago, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known as the Revolutionary Guard, has conducted covert and overt military operations, built an economic empire, and trained, financed, and guided terrorists to pursue one goal―the preservation and expansion of the Islamic revolution. Inside...
Houghton Mifflin, 2020. — 320 p. Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet--and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born. Harro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She...
University of Missouri, 2014. — 312 p. Project 9: The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II is a thoroughly researched narrative of the Allied joint project to invade Burma by air. Beginning with its inception at the Quebec Conference of 1943 and continuing through Operation Thursday until the death of the brilliant British General Orde Wingate in March 1944, less than a...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 264 p. Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and went on to collect three gold medals in performances...
The History Press, 2013. — 169 p. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the transport of 'spies' across enemy lines by aircraft was not regarded as a priority. In fact, there was no formal organization for these flights and no communications network between the air forces and their agents - apart from homing pigeons and the occasional telephone call. The situation had...
Random House, 2019. — 464 p. In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast intelligence organization—the only woman to serve as a chef de résistance during the war. Strong-willed, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country’s conservative, patriarchal society,...
Routledge, 2010. — 190 p. During the last two decades, Central Asian states have witnessed an intense revival of Islamic faith. Along with its moderate and traditional forms, radical and militant Islam has infiltrated communities of Muslims in Central Asia. Alarmed by the border incursions, sporadic terrorist violence and religious anti-governmental campaigns, the leadership of...
Archetype, 2019. — 291 p. A cybersecurity expert and former FBI "ghost" tells the thrilling story of how he helped take down notorious FBI mole Robert Hanssen, the first Russian cyber spy. Eric O'Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the FBI's top target, a man suspected of spying for the Russians for...
Pavilion Books, 2015. — 272 p. In a detailed exploration of the hazardous 'Special Attack' weapons and forces of World War II, Suicide Squads examines the role of explosive motorboats, midget submarines, human torpedoes and kamikaze aircraft. In addition to weapon development, Richard O'Neil describes the actions themselves including Pearl Harbour, the raid on Sydney Harbour...
Pegasus Books, 2022. — 400 p. Shrouded in government secrecy, clouded by myths and propaganda, the enigmatic tale of Nazi fugitives in the early Cold War has never been properly told—until now. In the aftermath of WWII, the victorious Allies vowed to hunt Nazi war criminals “to the ends of the earth.” Yet many slipped away to the four corners of the world or were shielded by...
The History Press, 2015. — 256 p. In King Leopold II's infamous Congo 'Free' State at the turn of the century, severed hands became a form of currency. But some in the Belgian government had no sense of historical shame, as they connived for an independent Katanga state in 1960 to protect Belgian mining interests. What happened next was extraordinary. It was an extremely uneven...
Ivan R. Dee, 2007. — 378 p. Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet bloc, reviews the Kennedy assassination, reveals facts covered up by the Kremlin, and addresses questions left unanswered by official investigations and numerous books. Pacepa is the only investigator of the assassination who had direct knowledge of the KGB's...
Regnery Publishing, 1987. — 470 p. A former chief of Romania's foreign intelligence service reveals the extraordinary corruption of the Nicolae Ceausescu government of Romania, its brutal machinery of oppression, and its Machiavellian relationship with the West. An in side story of how Communist Party leaders really live.
WND Books, 2013. — 429 p. The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again. A quarter century ago, in his international bestseller Red Horizons, Pacepa exposed the massive crimes and corruption of his former boss, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, giving the dictator a nervous breakdown and inspiring him...
Washington: WND Books, 2013. — 848 p. — ISBN: 978-1936488605, 978-1936488988. The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again. A quarter century ago, in his international bestseller Red Horizons, Pacepa exposed the massive crimes and corruption of his former boss, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu,...
Casemate Publishing, 2016. — 272 p. Ten years after the publication of his Services Spéciaux (1935-1945), Paillole took up his pen once again in order to shed further light on the critical role that the French Secret Service played in the infiltration of German agencies. In this first English edition of The Spy in Hitler’s Inner Circle, Paillole brings us to the very heart of...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2023. — 236 p. Opium Queen is the true story of the widely mythologized genderqueer Burmese opium-pioneer of noble Chinese descent, Olive Yang, who secretly ran an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle. Olive Yang was a widely mythologized genderqueer lesbian opium-pioneer in the 1950s heyday...
David and Charles, 2008. — 356 p. This title offers a comprehensive look at the undercover war, revealing just how much of WWII was won away from the battlefields and how each side desperately tried to get into the 'mind set' of their enemies' code makers. From the British cryptologists to the Navajo Indians whose codes helped win the war against Japan, this book reveals the...
Lexington Books, 2022. — 190 p. The life of a ruler is ephemeral. A lucky few exit office through retirement or old age, but most rulers have short tenures, often ended by violent means. The overthrow of rulers by their rivals is a common theme throughout world history, and this strategy remains a popular choice in contemporary warfare. However, despite the frequency of regime...
Rand, 2013. — 332 p. In-depth case studies of 41 insurgencies since World War II provide evidence to answer a perennial question in strategic discussions of counterinsurgency: When a country is threatened by an insurgency, what efforts give its government the best chance of prevailing? Each case study breaks the conflict into phases and examines the factors and practices that...
Riverhead Hardcover, 2009. — 416 p. Unlikely Allies is the secret story of three remarkable historical figures. Silas Deane was a Connecticut merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress as the American colonies struggled to break with England. Caron de Beaumarchais was a successful playwright who wrote The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. And the flamboyant...
Polperro Heritage Press, 2011. — 150 p. Cribs For Victory is a posthumous account of the secret code-breaking process in Bletchley Park's Fusion Room during World War II by Major Neil Webster, one of the key members of the team involved. The Fusion Room was the central unit where decrypted German messages obtained from Hut 6 were compared with the corresponding data extracted...
Lyons Press, 2008. — 288 p. Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service. But as Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe, she went to work for the British Special Operations Executive. She was assigned to France, where she became the architect of the Resistance movement in central France, helping escaped prisoners of war, and...
Prometheus Books, 2018. — 187 p. A CBS correspondent presents an in-depth examination of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and measures to protect US voting systems against future cyber attacks. In this compelling account of how the Russians hacked the 2016 election, CBS News Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues reveals how far the...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 287 p. Contesting France reveals the untold role of intelligence in shaping American perceptions of and policy toward France between 1944 and 1947, a critical period of the early Cold War when many feared that French communists were poised to seize power. In doing so, it exposes the prevailing narrative of French unreliability, weakness, and...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 265 p. — (Scarecrow Professional Intelligence Education). Partly Cloudy: Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Actions, and Interrogation explores a number of wrenching ethical issues and challenges faced by our military and intelligence personnel. David L. Perry provides a robust and practical approach to analyzing ethical issues in war and intelligence...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 205 p. Heroes to some, traitors to others, spies and intelligence officers continue to fascinate and enthrall us with their abilities to operate secretly in the shadows. With these mini-biographies of twenty agents of various nationalities (including members of the DGSE, KGB, CIA, MI6 and Mossad), Patrick Pesnot and 'Mr X' bring the reader as close as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1981. — 318 p. Intelligence and Deception. Slow Pearl Harbours and the Pleasures of Deception. Approaches to Intelligence and Social Science. The Soviet Military Potential for Surprise Attack: Surprise, Superiority and Time. American Perceptions and Misperceptions of Soviet Military Intentions and Capabilities. ‘Static’ and ‘Dynamic’ Intelligence...
Eighth edition. — Washington: Defense Intelligence College, 1985. — 90 p. One of the hallmarks of a profession is a recognized body of literature that has grown up about and around it. By this measure, intelligence has long been able to claim the title "profession." However, intelligence, by its nature, has also given rise to a significant number of misinformed, partially...
Harper Collins, 2020. — 352 p. The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret naval codebook. The fledgling Australian...
Westholme Publishing, 2010. — 228 р. Alone Against Germany, Britain Gave America Its Most Astonishing Secrets. In August 1940, a German invasion of Britain looked inevitable. Luftwaffe bombers were pounding British cities, France had surrendered, and the Low Countries were under German control. Although sympathetic to Britain's plight, the United States remained staunchly...
Random House, 2021. — 224 p. The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carré - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief. An exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents. Occupied Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carré, codenamed...
W.H. Allen and Co. Ltd., 1954. — 320 p. A detailed study of the theft of the world's greatest military secret - packed with new information - describing how it was done - analyzing the men and the motives behind the deed.
Random House Publishing Group, 2009. — 704 p. From noted intelligence authority and author Chapman Pincher comes an utterly riveting book that reveals in startling detail sixty years of Soviet spying against Great Britain and the United States. Using a huge cache of recently released documents and exclusive interviews, Pincher makes a compelling new case that–as he has long...
Palgrave Pivot, 2018. — 111 p. This book seeks to answer the “why” and “how” questions about the insurgency of the PKK, a militant left-wing group of Turkey’s Kurds, in Turkey. The PKK has been inter-locked in an intermittent war against Turkey since 1984 in the name of Kurdish nationalism. The author combines insights of Strategy and IR - from strategy and tactics in irregular...
Simon and Schuster, 2004. — 365 p. A Vietnam commando unit leader shares the story of secret operations along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and Cambodia, describing the efforts of small teams to capture enemy officers, rescue pilots, and collect intelligence.
Potomac Books, 2023. — 336 р. Almost from the first days of seafaring, men have used ships for “spying” and intelligence collection. Since early in the twentieth century, with the technological advancements of radio and radar, the U.S. Navy and other government agencies and many other navies have used increasingly specialized ships and submarines to ferret out the secrets of...
Henry Holt and Company, 2021. — 224 p. From Warsaw with Love is the epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War, told by the award-winning author John Pomfret. Spanning decades and continents, from the battlefields of the Balkans to secret nuclear research labs in Iran and embassy grounds in North Korea, this...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 448 p. Counterinsurgency has staked its claim in the new century as the new American way of war. Yet, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived a historical debate about the costs - monetary, political and moral - of operations designed to eliminate insurgents and build nations. Today's counterinsurgency proponents point to 'small wars'...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 448 p. Counterinsurgency has staked its claim in the new century as the new American way of war. Yet, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived a historical debate about the costs - monetary, political and moral - of operations designed to eliminate insurgents and build nations. Today's counterinsurgency proponents point to 'small wars'...
Routledge, 2019. — 204 p. — (Routledge Studies in Espionage and Culture). Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote black sites, numberless security cameras? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television, and fiction, Matthew Potolsky argues that the aesthetic of the...
Carleton University Press, 1998. — 217 p. Since the end of the Cold War, competition among states has been waged along economic rather than ideological or military lines. In Canada, as elsewhere, this shift has forced a rethinking of the role of intelligence services in protecting and promoting national economic security. The scholars and practitioners featured here explore the...
Bobbs-Merrill, 1939. — 250 p. A combination history storybook and practical word puzzle manual. This book actually leads the reader step by step through the classic processes for breaking ciphers, from simple substitution up through Vigniere ciphers with disordered arrays with long keys. And he gives useful small examples of how to break codes. Someone who has read Pratt's book...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 392 p. The book focuses on the branches of the secret police that played a central role in the takeover and consolidation of communist power in the region. These included the department of political intelligence, which, among other things, conducted surveillance on members of noncommunist political parties; the department of economic intelligence,...
Scribner, 2018. — 352 p. The shocking true story of international intrigue involving the 1993 murder of CIA officer Freddie Woodruff by KGB agents and the extensive cover-up that followed in Washington and in Moscow. On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia....
Viking, 2019. — 368 p. The never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of the World War II, from the author of Clementine. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way...
World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007. — 265 p. Intelligence is critical to ensuring national security, especially with asymmetric threats making up most of the new challenges. Knowledge, rather than power, is the only weapon that can prevail in a complex and uncertain environment awash with asymmetric threats, some known, many currently unknown. This book shows how such a...
Lyons Press, 2013. — 272 p. Officers from the U.S. Embassy, Scotland Yard, and MI5 broke into Tyler Kent’s bedroom. They found the suave young American code clerk beside his unmade bed, wearing striped pajama bottoms. His mistress was wearing the matching top—and nothing else. Along with the Embassy code room keys, the men also found 2,000 smuggled documents, including...
Five Minute Books, 2015. — 150 p. Quer seja Enéas, o Tático, que criou a ciência militar ocidental; Francis Walsingham, espião da rainha Elizabeth que frustrou inúmeras tentativas de assassinato e teceu uma rede internacional de espionagem internacional no início do colonialismo europeu; ou Richard Sorge, o espião beberrão alemão para os soviéticos cuja interceptação de...
Routledge, 2019. — 414 p. Critical questions remain unanswered on the events of the cold-blooded and devastating terror attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. Investigative and introspective, this book offers a lucid and graphic account of the ill-fated day and traces the changing dynamics of terror in South Asia. Using new insights, it explores South Asia’s regional dynamics...
I.B. Tauris, 1995. — 256 p. This work is an in-depth study of Syrian secret politics and military foreign relations between 1949 and 1961. Previously unstudied aspects of Syrian covert intervention in the 1958 Lebanese Civil War and of a Syrian-Jordanian "dirty war" are also included. Covert special action and terrorism have played major roles in the policies of the Middle...
Sofrep, 2015. — 285 p. One of America's closest allies in the War on Terror has deployed more often and lost more soldiers in Afghanistan than any other NATO nation, but it probably isn't who you think. The small country of Denmark has fielded a small but extremely professional Special Operations unit known as the Jaeger Corps. For the first time in the English language, Thomas...
Capstone, 2015. — 112 p. The Axis are a powerful force in World War II. Learning their secrets gives the Allies a chance to stop them. Will you: Fly the deadly skies to take pictures of German military sites? Share secrets that come over wireless communication from Nazi-occupied Paris? Steal information from the Japanese military as a secret agent? You Choose offers multiple...
Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1981. — 270 p. Switzerland, 1939. As the Second World War loomed on the horizon and Stalin kept his cautious peace with Hitler, the last links in what would be one of the war's crucial espionage networks were being forged in neutral Geneva. Code-named Lucy, this clandestine operation involved a group of Soviet expatriates who would in the next four...
Lisa Hagan Books, 2019. — 180 p. Russian meddling: they are two words that just about everyone has come to know very well in the last few years. Only a fool – or someone with an agenda of a sinister kind – would deny that such meddling occurred. But, who knew that for decades the Russians secretly used the UFO phenomenon as a means to try and destabilize the West? Why did the...
Chicago Review Press, 2016. — 256 p. In May 1943, a young Frenchwoman called Lucie Aubrac engineered the escape of her husband, Raymond, from the clutches of Klaus Barbie, the feared Gestapo chief later known as the "Butcher of Lyon." When Raymond was arrested again that June, Lucie mounted a second astonishing rescue, ambushing the prison van that was transporting him. As a...
Routledge, 2006. — 228 p. An incisive new analysis of transatlantic security cooperation, probing the roots as well as the future directions of this key relationship in world affairs. Since the 1990s, this cooperation has expanded from traditional military security issues into countering terrorism, international organized crime and drug trafficking. This has injected new...
London: Printed for His Majesty's stationery office, 1904. — 37 р. This British manual covers the duties and regulations for the Intelligence Corps, including organization, interpreters, guides, scouts, Secret Service, and financial instructions.
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 483 p. Despite its 1941 alliance with Japan, Thai leaders managed to establish clandestine relations with China, Britain and the United States, each of which had ambitions for postwar influence in Bangkok. Based largely on recently declassified intelligence records, this narrative history thoroughly explores these relations, details Allied...
Tannenberg Publishing, 2015. — 78 p. The purpose of this study is to examine the nature of the command and control relationship between Special Forces and conventional forces. Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan serves as a case study in practice and doctrinal application. Against the backdrop of World War II, Operations in Panama, Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, and Operations...
Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — 338 p. — ISBN 9781250858696. Pegasus is widely regarded as the most effective and sought-after cyber-surveillance system on the market. The system's creator, the NSO Group, a private corporation headquartered in Israel, is not shy about proclaiming its ability to thwart terrorists and criminals. "Thousands of people in Europe owe their lives to...
Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — 228 p. Pegasus is widely regarded as the most effective and sought-after cyber-surveillance system on the market. The system's creator, the NSO Group, a private corporation headquartered in Israel, is not shy about proclaiming its ability to thwart terrorists and criminals. "Thousands of people in Europe owe their lives to hundreds of our company...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 140 p. This book presents a comprehensive source document on intelligence and security oversight and review. It compares the oversight arrangements found in nine countries—New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and South Africa. This is done through an analysis of a wide range of areas including...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 544 p. Here is the ultimate inside history of twentieth-century intelligence gathering and covert activity. Unrivalled in its scope and as readable as any spy novel, A Century of Spies travels from tsarist Russia and the earliest days of the British Secret Service to the crises and uncertainties of today's post-Cold War world, offering an...
Cambridge, Massachusetts: A Subsidiary of Harpor & Row Publishers lnc, 1989. — 330 p. One hundred years ago the intelligence and counterintelligence communities of major and middle-ranking powers were in a primitive stage of development. Intelligence units were underfunded and understaffed. They were subject to the technological limitations of their time, dependent on information...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 288 p. The Battle of Britain was fought between two airborne military elites and was a classic example of pure attack against pure defence. Though it was essentially a ‘war of attrition’, it was an engagement in which the gathering, assessment and reaction to intelligence played a significant role on both sides. In some respects, both the RAF and the...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 288 p. The Battle of Britain was fought between two airborne military elites and was a classic example of pure attack against pure defence. Though it was essentially a ‘war of attrition’, it was an engagement in which the gathering, assessment and reaction to intelligence played a significant role on both sides. In some respects, both the RAF and the...
Casemate, 2022. — 224 p. On 9 November 1939, two unsuspecting British agents of the Special Intelligence Services walked into a trap set by German Spymaster Reinhard Heydrich. Believing that they were meeting a dissident German general for talks about helping German military opposition to bring down Hitler and end the war, they were instead taken captive in the Dutch village of...
Basic Books, 2015. — 384 p. The Vatican’s silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him “Hitler’s Pope.” But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pius ran the world’s largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly...
Turner Publishing, 2003. — 248 p. A True Story of Heroism in Nazi-Occupied Greece the most dramatic use of secret intelligence in the Western Theater resulted from covert operations against the Nazis in the cities of occupied Europe, which were implemented, to a great extent, by young men and women. For the most part, their stories remained shrouded in secrecy. Readers were...
Calmann-Lévy, 2014. — 356 p. Lorsque la France s’effondre en 1940, Winston Churchill aide de Gaulle à passer à Londres et fonde le SOE, ou Special Operations Executive. Buts de cette armée secrète: infl iger le maximum de pertes aux Allemands, créer des réseaux de résistance et informer Londres des mouvements de l’ennemi. Pour cela, il faut former des agents bilingues capables...
Harper Collins, 2009. — 240 p. Like many working class children growing up in the war, the young Jim Riordan would fantasize his way out of his devastated surroundings with dreams of Wembley and FA Cup glory for his local team, Portsmouth FC. Spartak Moscow, the team he would end up playing for, wasn't even on his radar. Taught Russian and trained as a spy in the same...
Independently Published, 2018. — 111 p. Ranged against two powerful communist terrorist armies, the small, under-equipped army of Rhodesia defied all military convention by not only resisting the onslaught, but taking the fight to the very heart of the ZIPRA and ZANLA terrorist machines. The efforts of the Rhodesian army and air force shocked the world; how could such a small...
Routledge, 2015. — 320 p. This book offers the first account of the foundation, organisation and activities of the NATO Information Service (NATIS) during the Cold War. During the Cold War, NATIS was pivotal in bringing national delegations together to discuss their security, information and intelligence concerns and, when appropriate or possible, to devise a common response to...
Routledge, 1999. — 350 p. This is a history of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) during the Cold War, based on its secret archives. The author describes a service that grew from a handful of specialists in 1946 to a multi-faceted organization with a personnel of about 1000 by the end of the 1960s.
The History Press, 2016. — 228 p. 'Who is the enemy?' This is the question most asked in modern warfare; gone are the set-piece conventional battles of the past. Once seen as secondary to more traditional conflicts, irregular warfare (as modified and refashioned since the 1990s) now presents a major challenge to the state and the bureaucratic institutions which have dominated...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 417 p. Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair, neither of them could have foreseen that their...
The History Press, 2017. — 240 p. The breaking of the Enigma machine is one of the most heroic stories of World War II, and highlights the crucial work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers which shortened the war by several years. But there was another code machine used by Hitler himself to convey messages to his top commanders in the field. More complex and secure than Enigma, it...
Public Affairs, 2009. — 424 p. Special Forces soldiers are daring, seasoned troops from America's heartland, selected in a tough competition and trained in an extraordinary range of skills. They know foreign languages and cultures and unconventional warfare better than any U.S. fighters, and while they prefer to stay out of the limelight, veteran war correspondent Linda Robinson...
Summersdale Publishers, Ltd., 2010. — 272 p. A unique investigation of the most important cases of the twentieth century, this exploration of the world's most thrilling, high-profile, and undercover jobs—including information newly released under the Freedom of Information Act—is enthralling to the last page. Among others, it includes the dark secrets of: Sidney Reilly, considered...
Cham: Switzerland, 2020. — 406 p. This volume discusses how the German armed forces made effective use of military geologists to assist their fortification of the Channel Islands after their capture from the British in 1940. The book presents a unique case history of German geologist expertise applied to British terrain, intended to make the Islands into an impregnable fortress...
Crown, 2019. — 400 p. In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was on the front lines. To “set Europe ablaze,” in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting, was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women. Thirty-nine...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 192 p. Long after the war s end, official World War II records listed the German submarine U-110 as sunk on 9 May 1941 by a British convoy a deliberate deception that hid the actual capture of a submarine that contained a working Enigma machine, codebooks, charts, and ciphers. As the official British historian of the naval war, Stephen Roskill did...
Tuttle Publishing, 2002. — 260 p. Ex-U.S. Army intelligence officer, Michael Hazzard, and the only foreign private detective in Japan, is offered $10,000 to deliver a cheap $5.00 string of Buddhist prayer beads to someone in Saigon, who will be identified by the phrase, “There is terror in the bamboo only for the wicked.” When he finally agrees, he finds himself the target in a...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 275 p. What is the role of intelligence agencies in strategy and policy? How do policymakers use (or misuse) intelligence estimates? When do intelligence-policy relations work best? How do intelligence-policy failures influence threat assessment, military strategy, and foreign policy? These questions are at the heart of recent national security...
Garden City Publishing, 1939. — 768 p. Spies, in short, are a veritable insecticide upon the Great-Man treatment of history, which of all treatments is the most romantic and most palatable. And the great men themselves, when composing memoirs or correcting the grade of their eminence, have been disposed to protect their spies and secret emissaries-even those safely deceased-by...
Routledge, 2022. — 275 p. This book provides a historical study of the theory and praxis of modern insurgencies and counterinsurgencies (COIN). Modern Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: A Global History shows that the insurgents can wage a variety of conflicts: at times conventional war which lies at the high end of their spectrum, and terrorism which is located at the...
New York: G.P. Putnams & Sons, 1941. — 318 p. The revolution of espionage. Colonel Nicolai takes a trip - A meeting - Architect Himmler - The end of the Romantic Era - B4 can't convince Baldwin - Maginot line of espionage. The dangerous age of the Deuxieme Bureau - What price U.S.A.? - Splendid isolation of the I.S.- Chismes and Chistes - Lord Runciman goes to Prague - The case...
Washington: Loompanics Unlimited, 1986. — 138 p. — ISBN: 0-915179-44-X. This is a reference volume for those desiring ready access to information about the covert inks used by criminals, intelligence agencies and others. Except for the limited instruction in spy centers, there is no course in covert inks available to enforcement and security officers in the United States. This...
Roca Editorial, 2017. — 368 p. 25 años después de que la aparición de La Casa rompiera el muro de silencio sobre los agentes, operaciones secretas y actividades de los espías españoles del entonces CESID, su autor, Fernando Rueda, ha llevado a cabo una nueva y larga investigación, en la que ha buceado por los secretos que esconde su sustituto, el actual CNI.
Holiday House, 2020. — 160 p. Would you spy for your country? Discover the World War II spies who lived among the shadows and the ones who lived in the limelight--disguised in plain sight! Josephine Baker. Virginia Hall. Roy Hawthorne. These are but a few of the daring spies who risked it all to deliver and protect crucial intel for the Allied powers. From housing refugees and...
Time-Life Books, 1982. — 208 p. Text and photographic essays tell of espionage in World War II: the spies, spy networks, codes, electronic eavesdropping, weapons and hoaxes used by both sides. This book is a very good overview of WWII spies. Included are great propaganda posters in color, photos of spies, activities, and equipment, and great narratives of Axis and Allies spies...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. — 408 p. A cross between James Bond and Robin Hood. Assassination by crossbow, refueling homemade planes in mid-air, mother and daughter seduction—Allied spy Tommy Sneum did it all during World War II. The exploits of the Danish-born spy made him a legend in espionage circles. But until now, the full, extraordinary story of Sneum’s action-packed career...
Amber Books, 2014. — 264 p. Since the advent of special forces units in World War II, governments and armies have trained small, elite teams of soldiers to perform operations deemed too risky or demanding for regular troops. Training to enter the special forces is harsh in the extreme, and the few who enter the ranks of the elite can expect a life of intense operational danger....
Skyhorse Publishing, 2008. — 224 p. Journalist and soldier Mike Ryan's access to restricted information is at the heart of this extraordinary look into the world of special forces and their tactics, training, and protocols. Ryan's web of military contacts in the U.S. and Europe allows him to tell the full stories of famous special forces units (like the SAS, Delta Force, and...
Regnery History, 2015. — 538 p. Allan Ryskind, son of Marx Brothers screenwriter Morrie Ryskind (Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera, Room Service), exposes the ugly truth about the Communists blacklisted from the film industry. Too often, the "Hollywood Ten" brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee are memorialized as victims of an unjust witch-hunt and...
Pen and Sword Military, 2016. — 181 p. The Redl Affair had everything: sex, espionage, betrayal, a fall from greatness and a sensational climax in which Redl went to his death like a figure of high tragedy. 'The army was shocked to the core. All knew that in case of war this one man might have been the cause of the death of hundreds of thousands, and of the monarchy being...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 340 p. In September 1942, the Long Range Desert Group was ordered to comprise the land-based element of a surprise raid on Tobruk, Erwin Rommel's strategic port and supply hub in North Africa. They were accompanied by a daring new Special Forces unit -- the Special Interrogation Group (SIG). This secret unit had already been active behind enemy lines,...
Stackpole Books, 2010. — 384 p. Complete account of airborne operations in the Pacific theater. First hand descriptions from American and Japanese paratroopers. Detailed maps illustrate battles From the attack on Pearl Harbor through Japan's surrender, the Americans and Japanese conducted a total of twelve combat parachute drops in the Pacific theater of World War II. Filling a...
Exopolitics Consultants, 2020. — 328 p. How did China undergo its meteoric rise from a technological backwater into a military superpower in outer space? This amazing transition began in top secret US Air Force programs over 75 years ago! While living in America, a brilliant Chinese scientist is chosen to work on the US military’s most classified technologies for over a decade....
Routledge, 2007. — 469 p. Reviewing recently declassified CIA documents, this book provides a balanced but critical discussion of the contribution of American intelligence officials to the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Giving new details of how senior Nazi war criminals, such as SS General Karl Wolff, were provided with effective immunity deals, partly as a reward for their...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. — 215 p. This book examines the nature of the secret services and the role of the secret police in Britain, Russia, and Germany during the interwar years. It traces the growth of the secret services and police in these countries, indicating how they differed in their development. The SIS (MI6), MI5 and Special Branch in England appeared more...
Doubleday, 1980. — 328 p. The RCMP Security Service was a branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) that had responsibility for domestic intelligence and security in Canada. It was replaced by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in 1984 on the recommendation of the McDonald Commission, which was called in the wake of major scandals during the 1970s. In...
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. — 397 p. The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia (1946), which became an international bestseller. In the latter, which explored the Moscow purge trials, the authors accepted as valid the Communist Party charges of treason against former Soviet opposition leaders, and the underlying allegation of plots to overthrow the...
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. — 397 p. The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia (1946), which became an international bestseller. In the latter, which explored the Moscow purge trials, the authors accepted as valid the Communist Party charges of treason against former Soviet opposition leaders, and the underlying allegation of plots to overthrow the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 273 p. In central Brussels stands a statue of a young woman. Built in 1923, it is the first monument to a working-class woman in European history. Her name was Gabrielle Petit. History has forgotten Petit, an ambitious and patriotic Belgian, executed by firing squad in 1916 for her role as an intelligence agent for the British Army. After the First...
Scribner, 1992. — 516 p. Examines how Oleg Penkovsky provided U.S. intelligence with data on Soviet nuclear capabilities. During the Cold War the CIA's premier agent in the Soviet Union was a high-level intelligence officer named Oleg Penkovsky. For two years in the early 1960s he supplied the CIA with highly classified information on Soviet rocket strength and strategic...
New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1992. — 488 p. The Spy Who Saved the World tells, for the first time, the complete story of the life and legendary career of the greatest spy of the Cold War, Oleg Penkovsky, the highest-ranking Soviet military official ever to cooperate with the West. At the height of the Cold War, during 1961 and 1962. Oleg Penkovsky provided the CIA and MI6, the...
Grand Central Publishing, 2019. — 352 p. The New York Times bestselling true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life to save the lives of twenty-three comrades-in-arms. In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just below the 10,469-foot peak of a mountain in...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 368 p. During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they conspired to overthrow Lenin's newly established Bolshevik regime, and to install one that...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 274 p. Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight, and it is now common knowledge that vast internal networks of spies in the Soviet Union and East Germany were directed by the Communist Party. By contrast, very little historical information has been available on the covert...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 825 p. — (The Northern World 55). Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) won fame and infamy as a natural scientist and visionary theosopher, but he was also a master intelligencer, who served as a secret agent for the French king, Louis XV, and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party of "Hats" in Sweden. This study draws upon unpublished diplomatic and...
Praeger, 1996. — 208 p. This book tells the history of one of the most successful OSS operations of World War II. Three OSS agents—two young immigrants, one from Germany, the other from Holland, and a former Austrian Wehrmacht officer—in the midst of winter make a night jump into the Austrian Alps, landing hip-deep in snow at 10,000 feet. William Casey—then an OSS official and...
Harper Collins, 2019. — 316 p. Poisoned dissidents. Election interference. Armed invasions. International treaties thrown into chaos. Secret military buildups. Hackers and viruses. Weapons deployed in space. China and Russia (and Iran and North Korea) spark news stories here by carrying out bold acts of aggression and violating international laws and norms. Isn’t this just bad...
Simon and Schuster, 2009. — 384 p. Notorious incident: In 1967 the spy ship USS Liberty was attacked by Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats in international waters during the Six-Day War. Thirty-four sailors were killed and more than 170 wounded, many critically. Israel claimed mistaken identity, which a U.S. naval court of inquiry confirmed, but that explanation is...
Routledge, 2008. — 352 p. This edited volume brings together many of the world’s leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence. The book presents a series of documents, nearly all of which are published here for the first time, accompanied by both...
Bloomsbury, 2017. — 640 p. Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war. From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads. The Exile tells the extraordinary inside story of that...
Penguin Books, 2013. — 352 p. In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks and special counter-terrorist operations in Indian Mumbai. Mumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world’s most exclusive luxury...
Wiley, 2001. — 432 p. The complete untold story of the cracking of the infamous Nazi code. Most histories of the cracking of the elusive Enigma code focus on the work done by the codebreakers at Bletchley Park, Britain's famous World War II counterintelligence station. In this fascinating account, however, we are told, for the first time, the hair-raising stories of the heroic...
St. Martin's Press, 2021. — 320 p. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and...
Mauro Pagliai Editore, 2009. — 362 p. Le vene aperte del delitto Moro sono le ombre del sistema politico dell'Italia repubblicana. Perciò continuano a incombere su di noi, ci seguono severe e minacciose. Gli autori di questo volume riesplorano domande vecchie e nuove, rimaste senza una risposta. Perché l'antifascismo, come in tutti gli altri paesi europei, non è stato declinato...
Politikens Forlagshus, 2012. — 283 p. Om Abu Talal, der som ung studerende stiftede den egyptiske terrororganisation, al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya, som stod bag drabet på præsident Anwar Sadat, og om hans tætte samarbejde med Osama Bin Ladens nærmeste mænd, længe før verden lærte al-Qaeda at kende, og om hans flugt til Danmark, hvor han fik politisk asyl. Abu Talal forsvandt på Balkan...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 284 p. This book analyzes the process of evaluating Iran’s nuclear project and the efforts to roll it back, resulting in the 2015 nuclear agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA). Despite its aura of scientific exactitude, nuclear intelligence is complex and susceptible to methodological disagreements and political bias at the...
Havertown: Pen & Sword Books, 1990. — 224 p. The first reaction to Leonard Sellers fascinating account of the spies who were executed in the Tower of London during the First World War is likely to be one of amazement at their ineptitude. Not one of them seems to have had any proper training or any idea of how to set about the job. This, of course raises the intriguing question:...
ISEAS Publishing, 2019. — 248 p. No external observer knows more about Myanmar’s security and intelligence apparatus than Andrew Selth. In this book he presents an account of the structure and functions of Myanmar’s deep state, along with a tale of personal ambition, rivalry and ruthless power politics worthy of John Le Carre. A thoroughly educative, entertaining and intriguing...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2010. — 321 p. Operation Dark Heart tells the story of what really went on―and what went wrong―in Afghanistan. Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer led a black-ops team on the forefront of the military efforts to block the Taliban's resurgence. For a moment he saw us winning the war. Then the military brass got involved. He witnessed firsthand the tipping point, when what...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2023. — 831 p. — (Security and Professional Intelligence Education). Bringing together a group of international scholars, The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures provides the first review of intelligence cultures in every African country. It explores how intelligence cultures are influenced by a range of factors, including past and present...
Horncastle: Mortons Media Group Ltd., 2013. — 132 p. — ISBN 9781911276071. The Great Garne 1963: an introduction British secret agent James Bond has failed. He sits silent, frozen with bitter defeat at the Casino Royale’s baccarat table, having played sinister Soviet agent Le Chiffre ‘The Number’ and lost. He knew every trick of the game, took every precaution and weighed the...
Roaring Brook Press, 2021. — 352 p. New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents a follow up to his award-winning book Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, taking readers on a terrifying journey into the Cold War and our mutual assured destruction. As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as...
Knopf Publishing Group, 2020. — 384 p. The definitive account of covert operations to influence elections from the Cold War to 2016, why the threat to American democracy is greater than ever in 2020, and what we can do about it. Russia's interference in 2016 marked only the latest chapter of a hidden and revelatory history. In Rigged, David Shimer tells the sweeping story of...
Columbia University Press, 2006. — 328 p. — ISBN 978-0231129824. Since the end of the Cold War, conventional militaries and their political leaders have confronted a new, brutal type of warfare in which non-state armed groups use asymmetrical tactics to successfully fight larger, technologically superior forces. In order to prevent future bloodshed and political chaos, it is...
Warszawa: Muza, 2007. — 176 s. — ISBN 9788374952569 Latem 1940 roku Churchill nakazał stworzenie własnych służb wywiadowczych SOE (Special Operation Executive). Od 1942 roku werbowano do nich także kobiety. Nie musiał być obywatelkami brytyjskimi, ale musiały świetnie znać język kraju, w którym miały działać, i nadawać się do służby pod względem zdrowotnym oraz...
IGI Global, 2016. — 338 p. As technology continues to advance, the threats imposed on these innovations also continue to grow and evolve. As such, law enforcement specialists diligently work to counteract these threats, promote national safety, and defend the individual rights of citizens. National Security and Counterintelligence in the Era of Cyber Espionage highlights...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 271 p. Details of information gleaned over the course of Operation LUSTY (LUftwaffe Secret TechnologY) are included in the form of reports, tables, and typed transcripts of conversations. Photographs also feature in this visual publication that seeks to consolidate all the various scraps of documentation filed around this time in an effort to create an...
Running Press Adult, 2013. — 288 p. This brief history offers a concise overview of the Great Game” to uncover the true world of espionage beyond such fictional agents, with a clear focus on 1945 onwards, from the height of the Cold War to the War on Terror. From the end of the Second World War to the present day, the world has changed immeasurably. The art of spying has...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 624 p. A history of winning intelligence practices from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar that offers timeless, practical lessons we ignore at our peril. According to conventional wisdom, strategic surprise and other intelligence failures are both inevitable and ultimately irrelevant because, at least in international politics and war, military...
Routledge, 2016. — 328 p. This book is the first comprehensive study of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI). The rise of Pakistan-backed religious extremist groups in Afghanistan, India, and Central Asia has focused international attention on Pakistan’s premier intelligence organization and covert action advocate, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate or...
Routledge, 2010. — 284 p. This book analyzes how the Egyptian intelligence community has adapted to shifting national security threats since its inception 100 years ago. Starting in 1910, when the modern Egyptian intelligence system was created to deal with militant nationalists and Islamists, the book shows how the security services were subsequently reorganized, augmented and...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 208 p. The end of the Cold War ushered in a challenging new era for U.S. defense planners. The certainties of planning for conventional war or, in extremis, nuclear war gave way to a new form of unconventional warfare waged by American adversaries like Al Qaeda, Somali warlords, and Iran. Iran's Qods Force examines how one nation state, the...
Routledge, 2016. — 328 p. This book is the first comprehensive study of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI). The rise of Pakistan-backed religious extremist groups in Afghanistan, India, and Central Asia has focused international attention on Pakistan’s premier intelligence organization and covert action advocate, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate...
The Overlook Press, 2018. — 404 p. Path of Blood tells the gripping and horrifying true story of the underground army which Osama Bin Laden created in order to attack his number one target: his home country, Saudi Arabia. His aim was to conquer the land of the Two Holy Mosques, the land from where Islam had first originated, and, from there, to reestablish an Islamic Empire...
Sapere Books, 2020. — 214 p. In 1940 Winston Churchill established the Special Operations Executive to “set Europe ablaze.” Three years later David Smiley and Billy McLean were parachuted into northern Greece and crossed the border into Albania to do just that. For the next eight months Smiley mediated between the competing resistance factions and organised them to conduct...
University Press of Kansas, 1996. — 332 p. Bestselling author Bradley Smith reveals the surprisingly rich exchange of wartime intelligence between the Anglo-American allies and the Soviet Union, as well as the procedures and politics that made such an exchange possible. Between the late 1930s and 1945, allied intelligence organizations expanded at an enormous rate in order to...
The History Press, 2019. — 336 p. 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 or even recognised. Each chapter centres on a number of different spies, following the path...
Aurum Press, 2017. — 320 p. Could you betray your country? Not only turn your back on your friends, family, everything you have ever known but actively seek to destroy it? The Anatomy of a Traitor focuses on the critical moment in a spy’s life: that split-second when they decide to embrace a double life; to cheat and hide and hurt; to risk disgrace – even death – without any...
Arcade Publishing, 2011. — 368 p. In this gripping, previously untold story from World War II, Michael Smith examines how code breakers cracked Japan’s secret codes and won the war in the Pacific. He also takes the reader step by step through the process, explaining exactly how the code breakers went about their daunting taskmade even more difficult by the vast linguistic...
Simon and Schuster, 2022. — 575 p. The Special Relationship between America and Britain is feted by politicians on both sides of the Atlantic when it suits their purpose and just as frequently dismissed as a myth, not least by the media, which announces its supposed death on a regular basis. Yet the simple truth is that the two countries are bound together more closely than...
Perseus Books Group, 2011. — 328 p. The story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years off the Second World War, never ceases to amaze. No one is better placed to tell the story than Michael Smith, whose number one bestseller 'Station X' was one of the earliest accounts.
Yale University Press, 2007. — 374 p. The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyïv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles—intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, lifelong conspirator. Henryk Józewski directed Polish intelligence in Ukraine, governed the...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 384 p. The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyïv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles—intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, lifelong conspirator. Henryk Józewski directed Polish intelligence in Ukraine, governed the...
Jonathan Ball, 2018. — 408 p. From Cabinda in Angola to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania 4 Reconnaissance Regiment conducted numerous clandestine seaborne raids during the Border War. They attacked strategic targets such as oil facilities, transport infrastructure and even Russian ships. All the while 4 Recce’s existence and capability was largely kept secret, even within the South...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 188 p. Traditional counter-terrorism approaches, with their emphasis on the military, are failing. This is seen in the fact that there is an average of three terrorist attacks per day in Africa. This study calls for more holistic solutions, with an emphasis on development and better governance to curb the scourge of terrorism.
Random House, 2016. — 352 p. From the Wall Street Journal reporter who’s been breaking news on the historic and potentially disastrous Iran nuclear deal comes a deeply reported exploration of the country’s decades-long power struggle with the United States—for readers of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower For more than a decade, the United States...
Bombardier Books, 2020. — 352 p. In 2015, a major story broke exposing Hillary Clinton’s role in approving the sale of American uranium assets to the Russian state nuclear agency, Rosatom. Not only did the sale of Uranium One put 20 percent of America’s domestic uranium supply under the control of Vladimir Putin, there was also evidence that the Clintons themselves had hugely...
Ebury Publishing, 2009. — 292 p. The 3 Commando Brigade's six month deployment in Helmand Province was among the finest pieces of soldiering I have come across' General Sir Richard Dannett, Chief of General Staff. In October 2006, the Royal Marine Commandos took up their six month tour of duty in war-torn Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan -- the toughest and hottest war...
Praeger, 2005. — 190 p. The relationship of the United States and Great Britain has been the subject of numerous studies with a particular emphasis on the idea of a special relationship based on traditional common ties of language, history, and political affinity. Although certainly special, Anglo-American cooperation arose from mutual necessity. Soybel examines the special...
Feral House, 2008. — 288 p. Aleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us from the cover of The Beatles’Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influence can be found everywhere in popular culture. Crowley, also known as the Great Beast, has been the subject of several biographies, some painting him as a...
Praeger, 1996. — 192 p. Spencer provides a history of the FMLN guerrilla special forces―known collectively by the acronym FES―in El Salvador. Trained in Cuba and Vietnam and utilizing techniques taken from the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army, the FES terrorized the armed forces of El Salvador from 1981 to 1992. After reviewing their training, Spencer examines the major...
Thomas Nelson, 2008. — 386 p. This is the untold story about the silent, yet extremely dangerous threat from the Muslim establishment in America?an alarming exposé of how Muslims have for years been secretly infiltrating American society, government, and culture, pretending to be peace-loving and patriotic, while supporting violent jihad and working to turn America into an...
Counterpoint, 2016. — 208 p. Sarah Aaronsohn was a twenty-first century woman in a nineteenth-century world. She and her siblings were born as part of the first wave of Jewish immigrants who fled the pogroms of Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1880s, settling in the province of Syria-Palestine. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the settlers had come a dramatic distance in...
Thistle Publishing, 2013. — 222 p. Operation Stopwatch/Gold, said CIA famous chief Alan Dulles, was one of the most valuable and daring projects ever undertaken. In 1955 it ran a tunnel 800 metres under the Russian sector of Cold War Berlin, and for more than a year tuned into Red Army intelligence. This was an almost impossible trick: apart from the technical wizardry needed, any...
Routledge, 2013. — 295 p. This work considers, for the first time, the intelligence relationship between three important North Atlantic powers in the Twenty-first century, from WWII to post-Cold War. As demonstrated in the case studies in this volume, World War II cemented loose and often informal inter-allied agreements on security intelligence that had preceded it, and created...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1980. — 306 p. The Origins of SOE, 1939–1940 Secret Armies and the Detonator Concept A Lean Year Survival and Consolidation A Year of Troubles Invasion, Liberation, and Order Epilogue
Lume Books, 2021. — 425 p. Their unique relationship was based on linked national histories and partially shared nationality – Churchill was half American – similarities in class and education, a love for the navy, and a common belief in the superiority of Anglo-Saxon institutions. It was cemented by shared enemies: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. On these foundations,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 254 p. The V-1 and much larger V-2 rockets added a terrifying extra dimension to the Second World War. Once launched there was little that could stop the V-1s and nothing to prevent the V-2s from reaching their targets. Both were indiscriminate and struck with little or no warning. Their destructive power was awesome but it was their...
Brill, 1974. — 56 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 31). Nature of the Problem. Spies, Deserters, and Traitors. Ambassadors, Merchants, and Aristocrats. The Handling of Intelligence. Limits and Misuse of Intelligence.
Evans Brothers Limited, 1959. — 231 p. Here, told for the first time, is the full story of the undercover work by French Intelligence during the Second World War. It is exciting, dramatic and written with the authority of a writer who has had access to documents not previously available to the general public. We are introduced to a cloak-and-dagger world of intrigue and sudden...
Earth Intelligence Network, 2017. — 522 p. Robert David Steele is a former spy and the most published critic of secret intelligence. Recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize he is now offering his entire intelligence series in Kindle format. A champion of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE), he seeks to inspire a prosperous world at...
Casemate, 2021. — 208 p. Complete with rare photographs, diagrams and glossary, follow author James Stejskal as he covers the establishment of these agencies and their intense training regimens leading into World War II. Winston Churchill famously instructed the head of the Special Operations Executive to “Set Europe ablaze!” Agents of both the British Special Operations...
Casemate, 2020. — 160 p. A brief history of secret British and American World War II organizations, their training, tools, successes, and their legacy. Winston Churchill famously instructed the head of the Special Operations Executive to “Set Europe ablaze!” Agents of both the British Special Operations Executive and the American Office of Strategic Services underwent rigorous...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. — 336 p. The Rangers’ mission was clear. They were to lead the assault on Omaha Beach and break out inland. Simultaneously, other Ranger units would scale the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to destroy the ostensibly huge gun battery there and thus protect the invasion fleet from being targeted. But was the Pointe du Hoc mission actually necessary? Why did...
Harcourt, 1976. — 486 p. An account of the intelligence activities of William Stephenson, code name Intrepid, and of the world's first integrated intelligence network, established in 1940 by Stephenson under the joint aegis of Churchill and Roosevelt. "A Man Called Intrepid" is partly an account of Canadian-born spymaster William Stephenson's central role in the development of...
Arcade Publishing, 2011. — 352 p. Here is the extraordinary account of the woman whose intelligence, beauty and unflagging dedication proved the key in turning the tide of WWII.She was beautiful. She was ruthless. She had a steel trap for a mind and a will of iron. Born Vera Maria Rosenberg in Bucharest, she became Vera Atkins, legendary spy and holder of the Legion of Honor....
Helion and Company, 2015. — 495 р. This seminal work documents the clandestine sea borne operations undertaken by South Africa’s 4 Reconnaissance Commando Regiment. It breathtakingly reveals the versatility and effectiveness of this elite unit which worked with a range of other South African and Rhodesian forces, including the Rhodesian SAS, to engage in a range of raiding and...
Tafelberg, 2018. — 359 p. 1 Recce. One of the sharpest, most versatile and deadliest specialist units in the South African Defence Force. These men - superfit and unbelievably tough - were dauntless. Time and again they put their lives on the line in covert operations that were mostly conducted under the cover of night, far behind enemy lines. Now, for the first time, the...
Tafelberg, 2020. — 320 p. — ISBN 9780624085201. Die Recces – onder die dekmantel “Delta Squadron” – het spesifiek saam met C Squadron SAS gewerk. C Squadron is in 1951 in Maleisië gestig deur vrywilligers uit Suid-Rhodesië. Hierdie eenheid is egter in 1953 ná die Maleisiese konflik ontbind. In 1961 herleef die eenheid weer en kom C Squadron Rhodesian SAS tot stand. In Junie...
Tafelberg, 2022. — 352 p. — ISBN 978-0624088820. Author’s note 1 Recce: Through Stealth our Strength is the third and final book in the trilogy about 1 Recce. Like the two previous volumes, it is a narrative of the weal and woe of the people of this exceptional unit. It deals with the period stretching from 1981 to 1996, when the unit was disbanded. The three books therefore...
St. Martin's Press, 2007. — 418 p. With access to formerly classified documentation and interviews from the CIA, the U.S. Army, MI5, MI6, and the British Intelligence Corps, acclaimed journalist Dominic Streatfeild traces the history of the world's most secret psychological procedure. From the cold war to the height of today's war on terror, groups as dissimilar as armies,...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 446 p. This fascinating historical revelation goes to the very heart of British and Allied Intelligence during World War II, specifically in the context of planning, control and implementation of the combined bomber offensive against Germany. There are sound arguments based on official archives that the handling of much air intelligence was faulty and...
Facts on File, 1995. — 152 p. Fascinating information about the special military units of the U.S. and its allies. Our elite forces number over 50,000 members including the Army's Green Berets, Delta Force, and Rangers; the Navy SEALs; and the Air Force Special Forces. The intense, selective training and highly organized aspect of these units have contributed to their importance...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 264 p. Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World examines the activities of diplomats and military spies in the expansion of their home country's informal imperial ambitions. Taking a comparative approach, the book combines a focus on the extension of the informal British Empire with an exploration of the imperial...
Grafton, 1987. — 403 p. Aquarium - The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy is the biography and memoir of Viktor Suvorov. Viktor Suvorov (Виктор Суворов) is a former Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Soviet Army, as well as fictional books about the same and related subjects. After defecting to the United...
Grafton, 1987. — 403 p. Aquarium - The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy is the biography and memoir of Viktor Suvorov. Viktor Suvorov (Виктор Суворов) is a former Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Soviet Army, as well as fictional books about the same and related subjects. After defecting to the United...
Grafton, 1987. — 403 p. Aquarium - The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy is the biography and memoir of Viktor Suvorov. Viktor Suvorov (Виктор Суворов) is a former Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Soviet Army, as well as fictional books about the same and related subjects. After defecting to the United...
Grafton, 1987. — 403 p. Aquarium - The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy is the biography and memoir of Viktor Suvorov. Viktor Suvorov (Виктор Суворов) is a former Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Soviet Army, as well as fictional books about the same and related subjects. After defecting to the United...
Grafton, 1987. — 403 p. Aquarium - The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy is the biography and memoir of Viktor Suvorov. Viktor Suvorov (Виктор Суворов) is a former Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Soviet Army, as well as fictional books about the same and related subjects. After defecting to the United...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 264 p. Providing an in-depth insight into the subject of intelligence cooperation (officially known as liaison), this book explores the complexities of this process in its international dimensions. Towards facilitating a general understanding of the professionalization of intelligence cooperation, Svendsen's analysis includes risk management and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 261 p. This book provides an introduction to the complexities of contemporary Western Intelligence and its dynamics during an era of globalization. Towards an understanding of the globalization of intelligence process, Svendsen focuses on the secretive phenomenon of international or foreign intelligence cooperation, as it occurs in both theory and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 215 p. This book is about the secret history of Europe. Drawing on the latest research by experts in the field, it opens up the hidden world of the Dangerous Trade: the spying and secret operations that made and broke European nations between 1500 and 1800. Espionage, blackmail and bribery were the Trade's regular tools; assassination,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 280 p. This book is about the secret history of Europe. Drawing on the latest research by experts in the field, it opens up the hidden world of the Dangerous Trade: the spying and secret operations that made and broke European nations between 1500 and 1800. Espionage, blackmail and bribery were the Trade's regular tools; assassination, provoking...
Fordham University Press, 2017. — 177 p. The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping is merely the most sensational example of what appears to be a universal practice today. What is the source of this generalized principle of eavesdropping? All Ears: The...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. — 320 p. Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone secret agent? Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich — and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona Poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods,...
London: Counterpoint. 2011 — 473 p. — ISBN 1582438765 On July 6, 1906, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim boarded the midnight train from St. Petersburg, charged by Czar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on the Qing Dynasty’s sweeping reforms that were radically transforming China. The last czarist agent in the so-called Great Game, Mannerheim chronicled almost every facet of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2006. — 130 p. George Tanham was among the very first American students of the counterinsurgency era in the 1950s and 1960s. An artillery officer in World War II, he went on to earn a doctorate in military history and political science. This combination of experience and knowledge served him well in analyzing the rise of guerrilla warfare as it rapidly...
Routledge, 2020. — 688 p. This book illustrates how Africa’s defence and security domains have been radically altered by drastic changes in world politics and local ramifications. First, the contributions of numerous authors highlight the transnational dimensions of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in Africa and reveal the roles played by African states and regional...
St. Martin's Publishing, 2021. — 412 p. Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For almost three years, as a Lieutenant Colonel at the top of Poland’s espionage service, he smuggled thousands of top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military documents, as well as 160 rolls of microfilm, from behind the Iron Curtain....
Bantam Press, 2021. — 410 p. Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West. His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important, least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War. Even his death is shrouded in mystery and he has been written out of the history of Cold...
Chicago Review Press, 2017. — 304 p. In a dramatically different tale of espionage and conspiracy in World War II, Shadow Warriors of World War II unveils the history of the courageous women who volunteered to work behind enemy lines. Sent into Nazi-occupied Europe by the United States' Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), these...
Open Road Media, 2014. — 557 p. The story of Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II—and an assassination secret service's plot. The Vatican has remained one of the last unexamined mysteries of the modern world. For centuries, pomp and pageantry have hidden from view the dramatic, sometimes sinister, realities that haunt the office of Supreme Pontiff and the men who make up his...
University of California Press, 2007. — 442 p. How did Great Britain and France, the largest imperial powers of the early twentieth century, cope with mounting anticolonial nationalism in the Arab world? What linked domestic opponents and foreign challengers in the Middle East and North Africa—Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt—as...
Zed Books, 2009. — 225 p. This book traces the transformation of intelligence from a tool for law enforcement to a means of avoiding the law--both national and international. The "War on Terror" has seen intelligence agencies emerge as major political players. "Rendition," untrammelled surveillance, torture and detention without trial are becoming normal. The new culture of...
La Esfera de Los Libros, S.L., 2016. — 856 p. — ISBN 978-8490606629. La Legión española, fundada originalmente bajo el nombre de Tercio de Extranjeros, es una de las unidades más respetadas del Ejército. Creada por Millán Astray en 1920, se ha convertido, gracias a su valor y combatividad, en la punta de lanza de las tropas españolas desplegadas en todo tipo de escenarios...
Casemate, 2009. — 256 p. The book is a personal memoir of the author's service as a US Army advisor during the end-stages of America's involvement in Vietnam. During the period 1970-71, the US was beginning to draw down its combat forces, and the new watchword was Vietnamization. It was the period when the will of the US to prosecute the war had slipped, and transferring...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 295 p. There have been many remarkable women who served British Intelligence during the Second World War. One whose dubious claim to have worked for them is a fascinating tale involving three marriages – the first, to a spurious White Russian prince; the second to a playboy-turned-criminal involved in a major jewellery robbery in the heart of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 224 p. Dickie Metcalfe was not your typical secret agent, but he was larger than life in more ways than one. Unlike many other agents who were part of the Double Cross System during the Second World War, he did not defect; nor was he blackmailed into becoming a spy. Instead, using his father’s connection with Sir Vernon Kell, the first Director...
The History Press, 2018. — 488 p. Mathilde Carré, notoriously known as La Chatte, was remarkable for all the wrong reasons. Like most spies she was temperamental, scheming and manipulative – but she was also treacherous. A dangerous mix, especially when combined with her infamous history of love affairs – on both sides. Her acts of treachery were almost unprecedented in the...
Amberley Publishing, 2016. — 327 p. What made a strange Dutchman hidden escape to besieged England in 1942 ostensibly to betray his country to the Nazi's Germans? This story has remained a mysterious espionage episode of the Second World War until now.
The History Press, 2019. — 368 p. In September 1940 a beautiful young woman arrived by seaplane and rubber dinghy on the shores of Scotland accompanied by two men – one of Germany's many attempt to penetrate British defences and infiltrate spies into the UK. This seems to be one of the few established facts in the otherwise mysterious tale of Vera Eriksen. Even the origins of...
Enigma Books, 2014. — 255 p. In this memoir of espionage and deceit a Finnish American who had returned to the Soviet Union in 1933 tells of his recruitment by the KGB after service in World War II. Because Kaarlo Tuomi was born in Michigan he had the most prized possession Soviet espionage could ask for: a legitimate American passport and native fluency in English. Tuomi was...
The History Press, 2023. — 320 p. Everyone knows the story of Enigma and secret codebreaking in the Second World War: the triumph of Bletchley Park over world-class cipher technology. Except that excellence in codebreaking was nearly betrayed by incompetence in codemaking. German codebreakers were effective and Allied codes and ciphers were weak. With both sides reading each...
The History Press, 2019. — 288 p. December, 1942 In the bathroom of a Belgian hotel, a French spymaster photographs secret documents—operating instructions of the cipher machine, Enigma. A few weeks later a mathematician in Warsaw begins to decipher the coded communications of the Third Reich and lay the foundations for the code-breaking operation at Bletchley Park. The...
Sirius, 2022. — 239 p. The Enigma cipher was supposed to be the German's impenetrable defence for its military communications against prying eyes during World War II. All manner of secrets were entrusted to it. When the Allies finally managed to crack the code, it heralded a turning point in the war. This is the fascinating story of how the code was created, adopted by the...
Pen and Sword Books, 2019. — 248 p. Winston Churchill was under pressure. The Soviets felt that they were fighting the Germans by themselves. Stalin demanded that Britain should open a second front to draw German forces away from the east. Though the advice Churchill received from his staff was that an invasion of France would not be possible for at least another year, the...
Lyons Press, 2019. — 304 p. Stories of the Spies from the Civil War through WWII. In The Greatest Spy Stories Ever Told, our editor has pulled together some of the finest writings about spies that capture readers imaginations. The one thing the heroes in this collection have in common is the ability to seamlessly shift identities. Each of the men and women in these stories had...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2021. — 351 p. Craig Unger’s new book, American Kompromat, tells of the spies and salacious events underpinning men’s reputations and riches. It tells how a relatively insignificant targeting operation by the KGB’s New York rezidentura (New York Station) more than forty years ago—an attempt to recruit an influential businessman as a new asset—triggered...
Henry Holt and Co., 2018. — 320 p. The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine conflict between the West and Russia. Salisbury, England: March 4, 2018. Slumped on a bench, paralyzed and barely able to breathe, were a former Russian intelligence officer named Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia....
Prometheus Books, 2018. — 230 p. Covert intelligence gathering, propaganda, fake news stories, dirty tricks—these tools of spy craft have been used for seven decades by agents hiding in plain sight in Washington's National Press Building. This revealing book tells the story of espionage conducted by both US and foreign intelligence operatives just blocks from the White House....
Prometheus Books, 2018. — 230 p. Covert intelligence gathering, propaganda, fake news stories, dirty tricks—these tools of spy craft have been used for seven decades by agents hiding in plain sight in Washington's National Press Building. This revealing book tells the story of espionage conducted by both US and foreign intelligence operatives just blocks from the White House....
Éditions First, 2014. — 304 p. Laissez-vous emporter dans l'histoire de ces hommes et femmes d'exception! Découvrez la Grande Guerre sous un angle nouveau: celui de ces hommes et femmes de l'ombre, agents secrets d'Etat ou autodidactes indépendants, qui ont oeuvré à couvert, à leurs risques et périls, pour rendre possible la victoire. Laissez-vous transporter dans le quotidien...
Public Affairs, 2017. — 272 p. In 2008, American journalist Jere Van Dyk was kidnapped and held for 45 days. At the time, he had no idea who his kidnappers were. They demanded a ransom and the release of three of their comrades from Guantanamo, yet they hinted at their ties to Pakistan and to the Haqqani network, a uniquely powerful group that now holds the balance of power in...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 128 p. It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria,...
Purnell, 1969. — 155 p. The longest guerrilla warfare in Angola. A chronicle of what is happening in revolutionary Angola and what may be expected in other Southern Africa countries in the foreseeable future. Illustrated with b/w photographs by Cloete Breytenbach. Al J Venter is a war correspondent, documentary filmmaker, and author of more than forty books who also served as...
Duke University Press, 2018. — 345 p. Katherine Verdery analyzes the 2,781 page surveillance file the Romanian secret police Securitate compiled on her during her research trips to Transylvania in the 1970s and 1980s. Reading it led her to question her identity and also revealed how deeply the secret police was embedded in everyday life.
Central European University Press, 2014. — 432 p. Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations. Its files were inaccessible, even to most party...
Prometheus, 2005. — 403 p. The July 2005 London bombings are yet another example of how Europe has emerged as one of the key battlegrounds in the global War on Terror. The region has become a critical "ground zero" for Islamist terrorists, not only as a target but as a base of operations. The implications for the United States are tremendous: under existing law, for example,...
Paris: Larose, 1903. — 284 р. Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent généralement télécharger une copie gratuite scannée du livre original (sans les coquilles) auprès de l'éditeur. Non référencé. Non illustré. 1903 edition. Extrait:... leur Moniteur officiel du gouvernement général (Reims) et le Moniteur officiel du...
Nova Science, 2015. — 191 p. As in most countries of the former Warsaw Pact or of Eastern Europe with a socialist-communist regime, in former Yugoslavia too, the birth of organised crime groups was a direct product of state security services of authoritative regimes in decadence. The roots of most of these groups are to be found in the association of the state securities or secret...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. — 544 p. — ISBN: 978-0-062449-62-1. The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. Its code name was "Operation Gold," a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet...
John Wiley & Sons, 1994. — 280 p. Ernest Volkman strips away the myths and Hollywood hype to reveal the human drama behind "the world's second oldest profession" — espionage. Here are the men and women whose daring feats of subterfuge have, for better or worse, irrevocably altered the course of history: "Counterfeit Traitor" Eric Erickson, the American businessman who, posing...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 328 p. Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman--the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine--who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring. Following the outbreak of World War I, Sarah...
Columbia University Press, 2010. — 192 p. The cross-border sharing of intelligence is fundamental to the establishment and preservation of security and stability. The American invasion of Iraq in 2003 was based in part on flawed intelligence, and current efforts to defeat al Qaeda would not be possible without an exchange of information among Britain, Pakistan, Indonesia, and...
Routledge, 2021. — 190 p. In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary, William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become a core concept when theorising power in liberal democracies. Through investigations into such themes as the mobility of cryptographic secrets, the power of public...
Simon and Schuster, 2023. — 688 p. The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China. Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin’s means to equalize the imbalance of resources...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 144 p. What is the ideal vehicle for special forces operations, for dangerous missions performed by small units of highly trained troops often working in enemy territory, behind enemy lines? And which vehicles have the world’s armies selected, adapted and developed since modern special forces established themselves as a key arm of the military...
Routledge, 1994. — 173 p. Highlights of the volume include pioneering essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein, and the future perils of the surveillance state by James Der Derian. Two leading authorities on the history of Soviet/Russian intelligence, Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, contribute essays on the final days of the...
Routledge, 1991. — 236 p. This book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991. This collection of essays is an attempt to explore the history of spy fiction and spy films and investigate the significance of the ideas they contain. The volume offers new insights into the development and symbolism of British spy fiction.
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 362 p. The paradise of adventurers, Shanghai during World War II was suffused with dangerous glamour. Racketeers, cutthroats and con-men jostled for advantage as secret agents of the great powers waged a complex and sinister struggle for power. In this classic account, Bernard Wasserstein draws on the files of the Shanghai Police as well as the intelligence...
Trine Day LLC, 2022. — 620 p. One Nation Under Blackmail - The Sordid Union between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Webb is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate....
Trine Day LLC, 2022. — 620 p. One Nation Under Blackmail - The Sordid Union between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Webb is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate....
Trine Day LLC, 2022. — 620 p. One Nation Under Blackmail - The Sordid Union between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Webb is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate....
Trine Day LLC, 2022. — 620 p. One Nation Under Blackmail - The Sordid Union between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Webb is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate....
Trine Day LLC, 2022. — 620 p. One Nation Under Blackmail - The Sordid Union between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Webb is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate....
Chatto and Windus, 2014. — 336 p. He was 'Garbo' to MI5, Alaric to German military intelligence and, in other circumstances, Carvalho, Gerbers and Rags the Indian poet; but it is as Garbo that he is remembered: the double agent who led the Germans away from the Allies' landing beaches on D-Day. This biography goes back to his youth in Barcelona and tells the full story of Juan...
Henry Holt and Company, 2020. — 336 p. With vivid storytelling and riveting insider accounts, Weiner traces the roots of political warfare – the conflict America and Russia have waged with espionage, sabotage, diplomacy and disinformation – from 1945 until 2020. America won the cold war, but Russia is winning today. Vladimir Putin helped to put his chosen candidate in the White...
Stanford University Press, 2013. — 753 p. When the Hiss-Chambers case first burst on the scene in 1948, its main characters and events seemed more appropriate to spy fiction than to American reality. The major historical authority on the case, Perjury was first published in 1978. Now, in its latest edition, Perjury links together the old and new evidence, much of it previously...
Public Affairs, 2005. — 400 p. In August 1972, Ryszard Kuklinski, a highly respected colonel in the Polish Army, embarked on what would become one of the most extraordinary human intelligence operations of the Cold War. Despite the extreme risk to himself and his family, he contacted the American Embassy in Bonn, and arranged a secret meeting. From the very start, he made clear...
Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 307 p. Combat divers are an elite within an elite. Every special forces combat diver is required to pass selection twice – first into the elite military unit and then a combat diving qualification. The combat dive units themselves are tiny and the operations highly classified. The role of a military diver is inevitably a lonely and a dangerous one,...
Casemate Publishers, 2020. ― x, 246 p. ― ISBN: 978-1-61200-900-1, 978-1-61200-901-8. UK/US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one main thing: Relationships. In this remarkable book, Anthony Wells charts fifty years of change, turmoil, intense challenges, successes and failures, and never-ending abiding Five...
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 320 p. Andre Scheepers grew up on a farm in Rhodesia, learning about the bush from his African childhood friends, before joining the army. A quiet, introspective thinker, Andre started out as a trooper in the SAS before being commissioned into the Rhodesian Light Infantry Commandos, where he was engaged in fireforce combat operations. He then...
Casemate Publishers, 2015. — 304 p. A biography of a Special Forces soldier who battled the forces of Mugabe and Nkomo, earning a reputation as a military maestro. During the West's great transition into the post-colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s, fought back almost alone against Communist-supported elements that it did...
Casemate Publishers, 2015. — 304 p. A biography of a Special Forces soldier who battled the forces of Mugabe and Nkomo, earning a reputation as a military maestro. During the West's great transition into the post-colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s, fought back almost alone against Communist-supported elements that it did...
Marshall Cavendish International, 2017. — 200 p. Half-American and half-Singaporean, Max West grew up in Singapore without having ever heard of the Naval Diving Unit. Upon graduating from high school, however, he was conscripted for two years of mandatory military service. He found himself thrust into NDU, Singapore's elite naval special forces formation, as one of just two...
New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 625 p. The Cold War was a sophisticated conflict fought by the west, principally the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with support from NATO, CENTO and SEATO, to confront the Kremlin and its Warsaw Pact satellites. The battlegrounds extended from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Byelorussia and...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 401 p. In the realm of human behavior, sex can be the catalyst for risky or reckless conduct. The Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage explores this behavior through a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the secret agencies, operations, and events. From Delilah's seduction of Samson in 1161 BC...
Scarecrow Press, 2008. — 337 p. In the years immediately following World War II, information was disclosed about what has been termed the shadow war of the existence of hitherto secret agencies. In Germany it was the Abwehr and the Sicherheitsdienst; in Britain it was MI5, the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and Special Operations Executive (SOE); in the United States it was the...
Biteback, 2011. — 240 p. Snow is the codename assigned to Arthur Owens, one of the most remarkable British spies of the Second World War. This typical Welsh underfed type became the first of the great double-cross agents who were to play a major part in Britain's victory over the Germans. When the stakes could not have been higher, MI5 sought to build a double-cross system...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 264 p. The Cold War, with its air of mutual fear and distrust and the shadowy world of spies and secret agents, gave publishers the chance to produce countless stories of espionage, treachery and deception. What Nigel West has discovered is that the most egregious deceptions were in fact the stories themselves. In this remarkable investigation into the...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 264 p. The Cold War, with its air of mutual fear and distrust and the shadowy world of spies and secret agents, gave publishers the chance to produce countless stories of espionage, treachery and deception. What Nigel West has discovered is that the most egregious deceptions were in fact the stories themselves. In this remarkable investigation into the...
Biteback Publishing, 2015. — 336 p. As part of the infamous Double Cross operation, Jewish double agent Renato Levi proved to be one of the Allies' most devastating weapons in World War Two. In 1941, with the help of Ml6, Levi built an extensive spy ring in North Africa and the Middle East. But, most remarkably, it was entirely fictitious. This network of imagined informants...
New York: Crown Publishers, 1989. — 248 p. This work evaluates the effectiveness of the world's major intelligence services by examining various aspects of their operations and organization. West, a prolific author of books on British intelligence, is an expert on this subject, and he provides some fascinating details on well-known incidents, as well as some not-so-public...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 625 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence). The Cold War was a sophisticated conflict fought by the west, principally the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with support from NATO, CENTO and SEATO, to confront the Kremlin and its Warsaw Pact satellites. The battlegrounds...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 309 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence). Twelve novels and nine short stories define one of the most extraordinary fictional characters of all time, creating the basis for the most successful movie series in cinematographic history, watched by more than half the world's population. The single person probably more...
2nd ed. — Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. — 489 p. Editor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Chronology. The dictionary. About the Author.
Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006. — 360 p. — ISBN 978-0-8108-5578-6. Jon Woronoff. Editor’s Foreword. Acronyms and abbreviations. Chronology. The dictionary. About the author.
Scarecrow Press, 2012. — 252 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence). Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) encompasses the various disciplines of wireless interception, cryptanalysis, communications intelligence, electronic intelligence, direction-finding, and traffic analysis. It has become the basis upon which all combat operations are undertaken. It...
Casemate Publishers, 2022. — 255 p. Spies have made an extraordinary impact on the history of the 20th Century, but fourteen in particular can be said to have been demonstrably important. As one might expect, few are household names, and it is only with the benefit of recently declassified files that we can now fully appreciate the nature of their contribution. The criteria for...
Casemate Publishers, 2022. — 255 p. Spies have made an extraordinary impact on the history of the 20th Century, but fourteen in particular can be said to have been demonstrably important. As one might expect, few are household names, and it is only with the benefit of recently declassified files that we can now fully appreciate the nature of their contribution. The criteria for...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 248 p. On Monday, 4 March 2019, Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia collapsed in the centre of Salisbury in Wiltshire. Both were suffering the effects of A-234, a third-generation Russian-manufactured military grade Novichok nerve agent. As three suspects, all GRU officers, were quickly identified, it was also established that the door...
University of Toronto Press, 2012. — 720 p. Secret Service highlights the many tensions that arise when undercover police and their covert methods are deployed too freely in a liberal democratic society. It will prove invaluable to readers attuned to contemporary debates about policing, national security, and civil rights in a post-9/11 world.
Simon and Schuster, 2016. — 356 p. He was born in Buenos Aires and educated in Geneva and Cuba. He was a daring WWII paratrooper who parachuted behind enemy lines on D-Day. He was a handsome, charming man who briefly worked as a Hollywood stuntman. He was also a spy who may have killed John F. Kennedy. The shocking new book Target JFK reveals page-after-page of incredible,...
Random House, 2014. — 228 p. The story of the photographic intelligence work undertaken from a country house at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, is one of the great lost stories of the Second World War . At its peak in 1944, almost 2,000 British and American men and women worked at the top-secret Danesfield House, interpreting photographs - the majority stereoscopic so they could be...
Chicago Review Press, 2017. — 352 p. On January 25, 1917, HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank. The ship was carrying 44 tons of gold bullion to the still-neutral United States via Canada in order to finance the war effort for Britain and its allies. Britain desperately needed that sunken treasure, but any salvage had to be secret since the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 302 p. The first account of the secret police in Eastern Europe after 1989, this book uses a wide range of sources, including archives, to identify what has and has not changed since the end of Communism. After explaining the structure and workings of two of the area's most feared services, Czechoslovakia's StB and Romania's Securitate, the authors...
Harvard University Press, 1987. — 288 p. On January 27, 1950, a passenger got off a train in London's Paddington Station and nervously shook hands with a man waiting on the platform. The passenger, Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs, thirty-eight years old, was dark haired and balding. About five feet eight inches tall, he had a sallow complexion and wore wire-rimmed glasses. His clipped...
Author Books, 1950. — 64 p. Potential spies, saboteurs and terrorists must be interned and segregated if native born and if foreign born, deported in order to block the Communist-Zionist 5th Column from seizing Christian America. An 'anti-Semite is someone who resists Communism / Jewish power including the Anti-Defamation League, a secret Jewish NAZI Gestapo / police force...
Quill, 1989. — 615 p. A history of the American intelligence effort from the creation of the OSS through 1961. These names of university professors and scholars are known throughout America, but their backgrounds are not. Winks reveals the shadowy game that is played on the campus as well as in the back streets of Milan and Vienna.
Penguin Books, 1981. — 640 p. Winter blows the whistle on his career as a journalist working for the South African intelligence forces during the Apartheid years. And he makes it quite clear that the same methods are being used by agencies a lot closer to home. What is quite remarkable in his account is the care with which each planted story is created, with a highly...
Sapere Books, 2022. — 282 p. An enthralling examination on the impact that military intelligence had on the Second World War at sea. How was the work of Alan Turing and other men and women at Bletchley Park used to influence naval strategies and shape the course of the war? And how did they use the information without alerting the Axis powers that their codes had been broken?...
Sapere Books, 2022. — 282 p. An enthralling examination on the impact that military intelligence had on the Second World War at sea. How was the work of Alan Turing and other men and women at Bletchley Park used to influence naval strategies and shape the course of the war? And how did they use the information without alerting the Axis powers that their codes had been broken?...
New York: Random House, 1967. — 308 p. The Espionage Establishment describes in unprecedented detail - much of it secret until now - the espionage operations and organizations of the major powers, focusing on the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Communist China and the United States. Some of its remarkable revelations include: How the KGB, the Soviet intelligence organization, used...
Random House Publishing Group, 2000. — 228 p. Cassidy's Run is the riveting story of one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War's espionage operation mounted by Washington against the Soviet Union that ran for twenty-three years. At the highest levels of the government, its code name was Operation shocker. Lured by a double agent working for the United States, ten Russian...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. — 250 p. For decades, while America obsessed over Soviet spies, China quietly penetrated the highest levels of government. Now, for the first time, based on numerous interviews with key insiders at the FBI and CIA as well as with Chinese agents and people close to them, David Wise tells the full story of China’s many victories and defeats in its...
The History Press, 2015. — 224 p. This is the only book, written by experts with first-hand knowledge, to examine in detail the clandestine reconnaissance operations over East Germany during the Cold War era. Between 1945 and 1990 the wartime Western Allies mounted some of the most audacious and successful photographic intelligence collection operations using their freedom of...
Lyons Press, 2021. — 210 p. In The Greatest Stories Never Told: Covert Ops, attorney and author Larry Yadon has written some of the greatest tales about covert operations, which are military operations that conceal the identity of the sponsor of the operation. These are not twice- or thrice-told tales, but the ones you haven’t heard before. It is an unforgettable collection,...
Regnery Publishing, 2015. — 320 p. In the middle of World War II, Nazi military intelligence discovered a seemingly easy way to win the war for Adolf Hitler. The three heads of the Allied forces—Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin—were planning to meet in Tehran in October, 1943. Under Hitler's personal direction, the Nazis launched secretly "Operation Long...
Ballantine Books, 1969. — 160 p. — (The PanBallantine Illustrated History of World War II. Weapons Book). Suitable for practitioners and students of both law and medicine, as well as the general reader, this title examines the regulation of medical practice, the rights and duties of patients and their medical advisers, the provision of compensation for medical mishaps and more....
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 241 p. Making full use of significant new sources in Chinese-language materials, U.S. Naval Academy professor Maochun Yu provides Western readers with the first detailed account of military and intelligence operations conducted inside China by foreign powers between 1937 and 1945. He also addresses the profound impact of these operations upon...
Routledge, 2014. — 503 p. The role of intelligence in colonialism and decolonization is a rapidly expanding field of study. The premise of The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East is that intelligence statecraft is the "missing dimension" in the established historiography of the Middle East during and after World War II. Arguing that intelligence, especially covert political...
Tauris Academic Studies, 2011. — 241 p. In an unstable Middle East, beset by regional tensions and repercussions of the global war on terror, Syria is a key player. The bloodless coup by General Hafez al-Assad, in 1970, put in place a powerful autocratic machinery at the core of the state which continues till today under the control of his son Bashar. Here Radwan Ziadeh...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. — 272 p. The Tizard Mission was one of the key events in the forging of the Anglo-American alliance in World War II. Led by Sir Henry Tizard, the mission visited the United States and Canada in the summer of 1940 to make available virtually all of Britain's technical and scientific military secrets. Overwhelmed by British generosity, the...
М.: Вече, 2021. — 484 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8743-9. На протяжении всей истории современной цивилизации конкурентный дух враждебности заставлял различные государства яростно соревноваться между собой. В любом соревновании всегда побеждал тот, кто заранее узнавал о намерениях конкурентов. И для этого издревле существовало проверенное средство — шпионаж....
М.: Вече, 2021. — 484 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8743-9. На протяжении всей истории современной цивилизации конкурентный дух враждебности заставлял различные государства яростно соревноваться между собой. В любом соревновании всегда побеждал тот, кто заранее узнавал о намерениях конкурентов. И для этого издревле существовало проверенное средство — шпионаж....
М.: Вече, 2021. — 484 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8743-9. На протяжении всей истории современной цивилизации конкурентный дух враждебности заставлял различные государства яростно соревноваться между собой. В любом соревновании всегда побеждал тот, кто заранее узнавал о намерениях конкурентов. И для этого издревле существовало проверенное средство — шпионаж....
М.: Вече, 2023. — 279 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8927-3. Традиционно считается, что у войны не женское лицо. Но это утверждение не относится к войне разведок. Напротив, на протяжении веков женщины-разведчицы зачастую умудрялись добывать то, что было не под силу их коллегам-мужчинам. Имена Маты Хари, Коко Шанель, Чичолины не только навечно вписаны в историю...
М.: Вече, 2023. — 279 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8927-3. Традиционно считается, что у войны не женское лицо. Но это утверждение не относится к войне разведок. Напротив, на протяжении веков женщины-разведчицы зачастую умудрялись добывать то, что было не под силу их коллегам-мужчинам. Имена Маты Хари, Коко Шанель, Чичолины не только навечно вписаны в историю...
М.: Вече, 2023. — 279 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8927-3. Традиционно считается, что у войны не женское лицо. Но это утверждение не относится к войне разведок. Напротив, на протяжении веков женщины-разведчицы зачастую умудрялись добывать то, что было не под силу их коллегам-мужчинам. Имена Маты Хари, Коко Шанель, Чичолины не только навечно вписаны в историю...
М.: Вече, 2023. — 279 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8927-3. Традиционно считается, что у войны не женское лицо. Но это утверждение не относится к войне разведок. Напротив, на протяжении веков женщины-разведчицы зачастую умудрялись добывать то, что было не под силу их коллегам-мужчинам. Имена Маты Хари, Коко Шанель, Чичолины не только навечно вписаны в историю...
М.: Вече, 2023. — 339 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-4484-4477-7. «Их судьба — шпионаж» — очередной боевик профессионального контрразведчика и литератора Игоря Атаманенко, в котором главными героями выступают сотрудники отечественных и иностранных спецслужб, ставшие культовыми символами шпионажа. Рисковые игроки, они, поправ моральные и этические постулаты, с азартом...
М.: Вече, 2023. — 339 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-4484-4477-7. «Их судьба — шпионаж» — очередной боевик профессионального контрразведчика и литератора Игоря Атаманенко, в котором главными героями выступают сотрудники отечественных и иностранных спецслужб, ставшие культовыми символами шпионажа. Рисковые игроки, они, поправ моральные и этические постулаты, с азартом...
М.: Вече, 2021. — 236 с. — (Миссия выполнима). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8724-8. Имя Игоря Атаманенко хорошо известно почитателям шпионских боевиков — тем, кто стремится обладать информацией, которая еще вчера значилась под грифом «Совершенно секретно». Мистический боевик «Контора идёт по следу» открывает тайну использования спецслужбами достижений биохимии. А также рассказывает о том,...
М.: Вече, 2021. — 236 с. — (Миссия выполнима). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8724-8. Имя Игоря Атаманенко хорошо известно почитателям шпионских боевиков — тем, кто стремится обладать информацией, которая еще вчера значилась под грифом «Совершенно секретно». Мистический боевик «Контора идёт по следу» открывает тайну использования спецслужбами достижений биохимии. А также рассказывает о том,...
М.: Вече, 2021. — 236 с. — (Миссия выполнима). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8724-8. Имя Игоря Атаманенко хорошо известно почитателям шпионских боевиков — тем, кто стремится обладать информацией, которая еще вчера значилась под грифом «Совершенно секретно». Мистический боевик «Контора идёт по следу» открывает тайну использования спецслужбами достижений биохимии. А также рассказывает о том,...
М.: Вече, 2018. — 223 с. — (Миссия выполнима). — ISBN: 978-5-4484-7168-1. Это беспрецедентное повествование о романтической любви секретных агентов из противоборствующих спецслужб. Действие разворачивается в России, Турции, Франции и Германии. Невероятные приключения агентов, изощренные интриги офицеров-вербовщиков поразят воображение самых искушенных читателей и заставят...
М.: Вече, 2018. — 223 с. — (Миссия выполнима). — ISBN: 978-5-4484-7168-1. Это беспрецедентное повествование о романтической любви секретных агентов из противоборствующих спецслужб. Действие разворачивается в России, Турции, Франции и Германии. Невероятные приключения агентов, изощренные интриги офицеров-вербовщиков поразят воображение самых искушенных читателей и заставят...
М.: Вече, 2017. — 272 с. — (Гриф секретности снят). — ISBN: 978-5-4484-7828-4. Новая книга ветерана контрразведки Игоря Атаманенко расскажет о фактах, которые еще вчера значились под грифом «Совершенно секретно»: – как Шанель «таскала из огня каштаны» для бригадефюрера СС; – как полковник разведки Зоя Воскресенская стала детским писателем; – как был ликвидирован «демон...
М.: Вече, 2017. — 272 с. — (Гриф секретности снят). — ISBN: 978-5-4484-7828-4. Новая книга ветерана контрразведки Игоря Атаманенко расскажет о фактах, которые еще вчера значились под грифом «Совершенно секретно»: – как Шанель «таскала из огня каштаны» для бригадефюрера СС; – как полковник разведки Зоя Воскресенская стала детским писателем; – как был ликвидирован «демон...
М.: Вече, 2017. — 272 с. — (Гриф секретности снят). — ISBN: 978-5-4484-7828-4. Новая книга ветерана контрразведки Игоря Атаманенко расскажет о фактах, которые еще вчера значились под грифом «Совершенно секретно»: – как Шанель «таскала из огня каштаны» для бригадефюрера СС; – как полковник разведки Зоя Воскресенская стала детским писателем; – как был ликвидирован «демон...
М.: Вече, 2017. — 272 с. — (Гриф секретности снят). — ISBN: 978-5-4484-7828-4. Книга издается в авторской редакции. Новая книга ветерана контрразведки Игоря Атаманенко расскажет о фактах, которые еще вчера значились под грифом «Совершенно секретно»: – как Шанель «таскала из огня каштаны» для бригадефюрера СС; – как полковник разведки Зоя Воскресенская стала детским писателем; –...
М.: Вече, 2019. — 195 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN: 978-5-9950-0287-1. У вас есть шанс стать обладателем информации, которая в XX веке значилась под грифом «Совершенно секретно»: как готовили разведчиков-нелегалов; как всемирно известные писатели занимались шпионским промыслом; как в Англии провалился советский разведчик-нелегал; как американский миллиардер работал на ФБР,...
М.: Вече, 2019. — 195 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN: 978-5-9950-0287-1. У вас есть шанс стать обладателем информации, которая в XX веке значилась под грифом «Совершенно секретно»: как готовили разведчиков-нелегалов; как всемирно известные писатели занимались шпионским промыслом; как в Англии провалился советский разведчик-нелегал; как американский миллиардер работал на ФБР,...
М.: Вече, 2019. — 195 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN: 978-5-9950-0287-1. У вас есть шанс стать обладателем информации, которая в XX веке значилась под грифом «Совершенно секретно»: как готовили разведчиков-нелегалов; как всемирно известные писатели занимались шпионским промыслом; как в Англии провалился советский разведчик-нелегал; как американский миллиардер работал на ФБР,...
М.: ЛГ Информэйшн Груп; Олма-Пресс, 2001. — 415 с.: ил. — (Досье). — ISBN: 5-8189-0030-4; ISBN: 5-224-01306-2. Автор книги полковник Службы внешней разведки Лев Баусин работал в резидентурах КГБ на Ближнем Востоке в 60-е — 70-е годы. Он занимался добычей секретной информации и выполнял ответственные задания руководства страны. В книге рассказывается о захватывающих эпизодах...
М.: ЛГ Информэйшн Груп; Олма-Пресс, 2001. — 415 с.: ил. — (Досье). — ISBN: 5-8189-0030-4; ISBN: 5-224-01306-2. Автор книги полковник Службы внешней разведки Лев Баусин работал в резидентурах КГБ на Ближнем Востоке в 60-е — 70-е годы. Он занимался добычей секретной информации и выполнял ответственные задания руководства страны. В книге рассказывается о захватывающих эпизодах...
М.: ЛГ Информэйшн Груп; Олма-Пресс, 2001. — 415 с.: ил. — (Досье). — ISBN: 5-8189-0030-4; ISBN: 5-224-01306-2. Автор книги полковник Службы внешней разведки Лев Баусин работал в резидентурах КГБ на Ближнем Востоке в 60-е — 70-е годы. Он занимался добычей секретной информации и выполнял ответственные задания руководства страны. В книге рассказывается о захватывающих эпизодах...
М.: ЛГ Информэйшн Груп; Олма-Пресс, 2001. — 415 с.: ил. — (Досье). — ISBN: 5-8189-0030-4; ISBN: 5-224-01306-2. Автор книги полковник Службы внешней разведки Лев Баусин работал в резидентурах КГБ на Ближнем Востоке в 60-е — 70-е годы. Он занимался добычей секретной информации и выполнял ответственные задания руководства страны. В книге рассказывается о захватывающих эпизодах...
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М.: Молодая гвардия, 1968. — 160 с., с илл. Книга «"Голубь" спущен» написана очевидцами драматических событий на Ближнем Востоке, развернувшихся с 5 июня 1967 года Ее авторы много лет занимаются изучением сложных проблем этого важнейшего района мира. Они не только журналисты-публицисты, но и специалисты-арабисты. Редактор "Правды" по отделу стран Азии и Африки Игорь Беляев...
Пер. Суховерхов А.М. — Elmfield Press, 1960. — 253 с. Рейнхард Гейдрих, один из главарей фашистского рейха, гитлеровский наместник в Чехословакии, был убит в Праге в 1942 году. Рано утром Гейдрих возвращался из своего загородного дома в открытом «Мерседесе» в Градчаны, старый королевский замок в Праге, где размещалась его резиденция. При въезде в Прагу два человека, одетые в...
Пер. Суховерхов А.М. — Elmfield Press, 1960. — 253 с. Рейнхард Гейдрих, один из главарей фашистского рейха, гитлеровский наместник в Чехословакии, был убит в Праге в 1942 году. Рано утром Гейдрих возвращался из своего загородного дома в открытом «Мерседесе» в Градчаны, старый королевский замок в Праге, где размещалась его резиденция. При въезде в Прагу два человека, одетые в...
Пер. Суховерхов А.М. — Elmfield Press, 1960. — 253 с. Рейнхард Гейдрих, один из главарей фашистского рейха, гитлеровский наместник в Чехословакии, был убит в Праге в 1942 году. Рано утром Гейдрих возвращался из своего загородного дома в открытом «Мерседесе» в Градчаны, старый королевский замок в Праге, где размещалась его резиденция. При въезде в Прагу два человека, одетые в...
Москва: Вече, 2017. — 233 с. — (Гриф секретности снят). — ISBN 978-5-4484-7901-4. Новая книга Анатолия Бернацкого рассказывает о шпионских уловках с древнейших времен и до наших дней. Автор раскрывает основные особенности сбора разведывательной информации, промышленного шпионажа, дезинформации, рассматривает главные приемы шпионской деятельности в различные эпохи,...
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Москва: Вече, 2017. — 233 с. — (Гриф секретности снят). — ISBN 978-5-4484-7901-4. Новая книга Анатолия Бернацкого рассказывает о шпионских уловках с древнейших времен и до наших дней. Автор раскрывает основные особенности сбора разведывательной информации, промышленного шпионажа, дезинформации, рассматривает главные приемы шпионской деятельности в различные эпохи,...
М.: Советский писатель; Олимп, 1991. — 128 с. Книга немецкого автора Г.Р. Берндорфа (1895–1963), написанная в конце 20-х годов, рассказывает о работе разведки и контрразведки европейских держав. События ее происходят накануне первой мировой войны и в период военных действий. Имена героев «Шпионажа» известны — Мата Хари, полковник Редль, Аннемари Лессер («мадемуазель доктор») и...
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М.: Олма-Пресс, 2003. — 543 с.: ил. — (Архив). В книге дана история создания секретных служб всех крупнейших держав XX века, рассказывается об их деятельности в наиболее драматические моменты мировой истории. Среди героев книги — известные разведчики и контрразведчики, создатели крупнейших агентурных сетей, агенты-двойники, шпионы-«оборотни» и другие представители этой...
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М.: Олма-Пресс, 2003. — 543 с.: ил. — (Архив). — ISBN 5-224-03324-1. В книге дана история создания секретных служб всех крупнейших держав XX века, рассказывается об их деятельности в наиболее драматические моменты мировой истории. Среди героев книги — известные разведчики и контрразведчики, создатели крупнейших агентурных сетей, агенты-двойники, шпионы-«оборотни» и другие...
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2003. — 640 с.: ил. — (Архив). — ISBN 5-224-03595-3. В книге дана история создания секретных служб всех крупнейших держав XX века, рассказывается об их деятельности в наиболее драматические моменты мировой истории. Среди героев книги — известные разведчики и контрразведчики, создатели крупнейших агентурных сетей, агенты-двойники, шпионы-«оборотни» и другие...
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М.: Русь-Олимп, 2007. — ISBN: 978-985-16-0442-1 Александр Брасс – выдающийся эксперт по теме террора, а также по истории ислама и европейского экстремизма, вице-президент Международной ассоциации ветеранов спецназа. За долгие годы им собран колоссальный архив по терроризму. Этот уникальный архив и литературное дарование позволили Александру Брассу написать глубокие...
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М.: Книжный мир, 2023. — 148 с. — ISSN 978-5-6049315-5-4. Война – это наркотик. Тяжелый наркотик, но его не выписывают врачи по рецептам. Она убивает, а когда её нет, то у человека, заболевшего ей, начинается ломка. И таких людей крутит между скучной мирной жизнью и войной, которая придает этой жизни вкус. Ведь каждый день, проведенный на войне, стоит нескольких на гражданке,...
Київ: К.І.С., 2008. — 288 с. — ISBN: 978-966-2141-07-8. До збірника увійшли науково-популярні нариси з історії становлення та оперативної діяльності спецслужб низки країн світу — не тільки великих держав, але менш помітних гравців світової історії, а також дослідження спеціальної діяльності ряду партизансько-повстанських рухів й екстремістських організацій в різних кутках...
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М.: Политиздат, 1965. — 246 с. 27 мая 1942 г. в Праге был убит гитлеровский гаулейтер Чехословакии Рейнгард Гейдрих. Кем и как готовилось покушение на Гейдриха? Кто подстерегал его автомашину с автоматом и бомбой в руках? Какую роль играл Гейдрих в гитлеровском рейхе? Как переплелись судьбы двух безвестных ротмистров Кубиша и Габчика, жителей селения Лидице и тысяч участников...
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М.: Алгоритм, 2018. — 330 с. — (Разведка и контрразведка). Перебежчики из разведки (советской и западной) сыграли важную роль в послевоенной истории. Например, полковник ГРУ Олег Пеньковский передал на Запад 5,5 тыс. документов, которые «определили планирование в западном альянсе на годы, а в некоторых вопросах – на десятилетия». Сотрудник британской разведки Ким Филби сообщил в...
М.: Принтлето, 2020. — 368 с. Данное издание представляет собой обобщающий труд по истории деятельности подразделений государственной охраны и специальной связи в годы Великой Отечественной войны (1941–1945). Книга опирается на широкий круг архивных материалов и мемуаров участников событий, содержит много редких фотографий и рисунков той эпохи. Часть документов публикуется впервые.
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Самиздат, 2019. — 355 с. Книга описывает историю создания и эволюции секретных служб оперативного документирования (наружного наблюдения) в структуре органов госбезопасности и внутренних дел Российской империи, Советского Союза и Российской Федерации, а также американских, британских и немецких спецслужб. В ней приведены реальные факты из службы филёров-разведчиков, «шпионский...
Самиздат, 2019. — 355 с. Книга описывает историю создания и эволюции секретных служб оперативного документирования (наружного наблюдения) в структуре органов госбезопасности и внутренних дел Российской империи, Советского Союза и Российской Федерации, а также американских, британских и немецких спецслужб. В ней приведены реальные факты из службы филёров-разведчиков, «шпионский...
Минск: Современный литератор, 1998. — 296 с. — ISBN 985-6524-37-7. Что такое спецназ? При упоминании этого слова многие представляют себе крепких парней в пятнистой униформе, поливающих огнем все и вся. Но такое представление далеко не всегда соответствует действительности. Хотите узнать, что на самом деле представляют из себя подразделения специальных операций, познакомиться с...
Минск: Современный литератор, 1998. — 296 с. — ISBN 985-6524-37-7. Что такое спецназ? При упоминании этого слова многие представляют себе крепких парней в пятнистой униформе, поливающих огнем все и вся. Но такое представление далеко не всегда соответствует действительности. Хотите узнать, что на самом деле представляют из себя подразделения специальных операций, познакомиться с...
Киев: Княгиня Ольга, 2005. — 718 с. — ISBN: 966-96101-2-5 (общ.), ISBN: 966-96101-3-3. Переиздание изданного для служебного пользования в 1929-1931 гг. IV управлением РККА двухтомного исследования работы разведывательных служб Германии и Российской Империи Описаны структура разведывательных органов, приёмы легальной и тайной работы, разведывательные операции России во время...
М. : Ломоносовъ. — 2019. — 224 с. — (История. География. Этнография) Эта книга посвящена сложной и деликатной сфере — сотрудничеству разведки и священнослужителей различных конфессий. В ее основу легли документы ЦРУ, которое в 2016—2017 годах опубликовало почти 13 миллионов страниц рапортов, оперативных сводок, аналитических докладов и т.п. Автор также использовал...
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М.: Кучково поле, 2008. — 560 с. — ISBN 978-5-901679-94-4. Автор книги - журналист-международник, арабист; почти 15 лет работал собственным корреспондентом многих отечественных средств массовой информации в Египте, Ливии, Израиле. Был свидетелем многих военно-политических и дипломатических событий, занимался журналистским расследованием операций, которые проводили израильские...
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М.: Воениздат, 1983. — 135 с. Автор, известный журналист-международник, на основе фактического материала разоблачает шпионскую и подрывную деятельность империалистических спецслужб, которые оружием лжи и диверсий ведут борьбу против СССР и других стран социалистического содружества. Книга написана в яркой публицистической форме. Смена караула В логове радиодиверсантов Туристы с...
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М.: Воениздат, 1983. — 135 с. Автор, известный журналист-международник, на основе фактического материала разоблачает шпионскую и подрывную деятельность империалистических спецслужб, которые оружием лжи и диверсий ведут борьбу против СССР и других стран социалистического содружества. Книга написана в яркой публицистической форме. Смена караула В логове радиодиверсантов Туристы с...
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М.: Вече, 2002. — 384 с.: ил. Вся вторая половина XX века прошла под знаком противостояния двух сверхдержав — СССР и США. Они конкурировали всюду — на земле, в небесах и на море, в политике, геополитике, экономике. Причем явная конкуренция сопровождалась не менее упорным и ожесточенным тайным противостоянием. Истории Центрального Разведывательного Управления — одной из самых...
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Одесса: Друк, 2007. — 624 с. — ISBN 966-2907-38-6. Комплексная история спецслужб мира в межвоенный период и в годы Второй Мировой войны. Исследуется эволюция разведывательных, контрразведывательных и криптоаналитических органов различных государств мира, описываются их структуры, персоналии, проводимые операции. Изобилует эксклюзивным материалом, в частности, по спецслужбам...
Одесса: Друк, 2007. — 624 с. — ISBN 966-2907-38-6. Комплексная история спецслужб мира в межвоенный период и в годы Второй Мировой войны. Исследуется эволюция разведывательных, контрразведывательных и криптоаналитических органов различных государств мира, описываются их структуры, персоналии, проводимые операции. Изобилует эксклюзивным материалом, в частности, по спецслужбам...
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Одесса: Друк, 2007. — 624 с. — ISBN: 966-2907-37-8. Комплексная история спецслужб мира в межвоенный период и в годы Второй Мировой войны. Исследуется эволюция разведывательных, контрразведывательных и криптоаналитических органов различных государств мира, описываются их структуры, персоналии, проводимые операции. Изобилует эксклюзивным материалом, в частности, по спецслужбам...
Одесса: Друк, 2007. — 624 с. — ISBN: 966-2907-37-8. Комплексная история спецслужб мира в межвоенный период и в годы Второй Мировой войны. Исследуется эволюция разведывательных, контрразведывательных и криптоаналитических органов различных государств мира, описываются их структуры, персоналии, проводимые операции. Изобилует эксклюзивным материалом, в частности, по спецслужбам...
Одесса: Друк, 2007. — 624 с. — ISBN: 966-2907-37-8. Комплексная история спецслужб мира в межвоенный период и в годы Второй Мировой войны. Исследуется эволюция разведывательных, контрразведывательных и криптоаналитических органов различных государств мира, описываются их структуры, персоналии, проводимые операции. Изобилует эксклюзивным материалом, в частности, по спецслужбам...
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Одесса: Друк, 2007. — 1824 с. — ISBN 966-2907-37-8, 966-2907-38-6. Комплексная история спецслужб мира в межвоенный период и в годы Второй Мировой войны. Исследуется эволюция разведывательных, контрразведывательных и криптоаналитических органов различных государств мира, описываются их структуры, персоналии, проводимые операции. Изобилует эксклюзивным материалом, в частности, по...
Одесса: Друк, 2007. — 1824 с. — ISBN 966-2907-37-8, 966-2907-30-0. Комплексная история спецслужб мира в межвоенный период и в годы Второй Мировой войны. Исследуется эволюция разведывательных, контрразведывательных и криптоаналитических органов различных государств мира, описываются их структуры, персоналии, проводимые операции. Изобилует эксклюзивным материалом, в частности, по...
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Харьков: Клуб семейного досуга, 2019. — 350 с. — ISBN: 978-617-12-6266-9. Истории и биографии самых знаменитых шпионов прошлого и современных «агентов 007»: Неуловимые одиночки Натан Хэйл и Карл Шульмейстер, прекрасные и безжалостные разведчицы Луиза Беттиньи, Ёсико Кавасима, Маргарита Гертруда Целле, она же Мата Хари Шпионы-писатели Даниель Дефо, Йен Флеминг и Иван Айвазовский...
Львів: Часопис, 2016. — 180 с. Як європейські країни долали шлях переходу до демократичного суспільства після розпаду СРСР? Чи збереглися до сьогодні документи комуністичних спецслужб? Чи можуть архівні документи розказати нам про характер та діяльність комуністичних тоталітарних режимів? Як законодавство регулює питання доступу до цих документів? У путівнику подана інформація...
М.: Рипол Классик, 2016. — 1260 с. Термин «спецслужбы» возник не так уж давно, однако само явление старо как мир. Публикация труда И. Б. Линдера и С. А. Чуркина «Спецслужбы мира за 500 лет» помогает пролить свет на многие тайны, над которыми бились лучшие умы человечества. От XVI до XX века прослежено участие, которое спецслужбы мира принимали в судьбоносных событиях, стремясь...
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Москва : Соцэкгиз, 1938. — 95 с. Всему миру известно, что СССР является несокрушимым оплотом мира. Советский Союз не раз разоблачал и будет разоблачать военные планы империалистов, но разоблачения не приостанавливают подготовку войны капиталистическими государствами. Поджигатели «большой войны» маскируют свои военные приготовления и тщательно скрывают свои агрессивные планы. Не...
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Монография. — М.: ЦГИ Принт, 2022. — 800 с.: 34 ил. — (Historia Russica). — ISBN 978-5-8055-0295-9. Монография посвящена секретным разведывательным, контрразведывательным, подрывным, пропагандистским и контрпропагандистским операциям, которые в 1904-1905 гг. Россия и Япония осуществляли во многих странах мира, на суше и на море. Речь идет как о принципах и способах организации...
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М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1960. — 118 с. В книге приводятся данные об использовании шпионов и осведомителей в прошлом — в периоды обострения политического положения в XVIII и XIX веках. Использование фальсифицированных доказательств против людей, выступающих за дело народа, становится массовым явлением и приобретает характер системы в наше время как одно из...
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М.: Горячая линия - Телеком, 2022. — 592 с. — ISBN 9785991209878 Рассмотрены технологии получения информации в частном разведывательном секторе. Это уникальный труд, не имеющий аналогов в мире, который комплексно освещает весь процесс — поиск источника информации, легендирование, составление психологического портрета, выработку метода первого контакта, технологии детекции лжи,...
Перев. с немецкого. — 3-е изд. — Москва: Воениздат, 1943. — 236 с. Мемуары полковника австрийского генерального штаба Максимилиана Ронге представляют собой поистине уникальный источник по истории спецслужб. В годы Первой мировой войны их автор руководил австрийской контрразведкой, а с 1917 г. был начальником разведывательного бюро австро-венгерского Генерального штаба. В своей...
М.: Воениздат, 1948. — 87 с. Работа американского историка Ричарда Уиллера Роуана, автора книг «Разведка и контрразведка», «Пинкертоны: династия сыщиков», рассказывает историю секретной службы от Митридата Понтийского, правившего во II веке до нашей эры, до Первой мировой войны, раскрывает исторические пути развития секретной службы, ее методы и средства. Виталий Крюков: Книга...
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М.: Коллекция «Совершенно секретно», 2002. 384 с. ISBN 5-89048-114-2 Столетиями государство совершенствовало систему надзора за своими гражданами, одновременно выстраивая жесткий барьер, который должен был воспрепятствовать проникновению эмиссаров врага. Особая и совершенно автономная организация - разведка. И здесь требовалось не только обучить будущие глаза и уши "вовне", но...
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М.: Мысль, 1984. — 228 с.
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М.: Мысль, 1984. — 228 с.
Книга, написанная на большом фактическом материале, в популярной форме рассказывает, как с помощью современных технических средств, визуального наблюдения, тайной агентуры и других способов «разведывательное сообщество» США пытается овладеть государственными секретами нашей страны. Автор использует советские публикации, а также официальные документы...
М.: Мысль, 1984. — 228 с.
Книга, написанная на большом фактическом материале, в популярной форме рассказывает, как с помощью современных технических средств, визуального наблюдения, тайной агентуры и других способов «разведывательное сообщество» США пытается овладеть государственными секретами нашей страны. Автор использует советские публикации, а также официальные документы...
М.: Мысль, 1984. — 228 с.
Книга, написанная на большом фактическом материале, в популярной форме рассказывает, как с помощью современных технических средств, визуального наблюдения, тайной агентуры и других способов «разведывательное сообщество» США пытается овладеть государственными секретами нашей страны. Автор использует советские публикации, а также официальные документы...
М.: Мысль, 1984. — 228 с.
Книга, написанная на большом фактическом материале, в популярной форме рассказывает, как с помощью современных технических средств, визуального наблюдения, тайной агентуры и других способов «разведывательное сообщество» США пытается овладеть государственными секретами нашей страны. Автор использует советские публикации, а также официальные документы...
М.: Вече, 2000. — 219 с. илл. — ISBN: 5- 7838-0640-4 Автор книги известный историк и публицист Борис Соколов предлагает читателям заглянуть за кулисы тайной борьбы спецслужб великих держав, пытавшихся в ходе Второй мировой войны организовать покушение на руководителей противостоящих им государств. Какие покушения планировались на Гитлера и Сталина, почему они не увенчались...
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Ростов н/Д : Феникс, 2009. — 302 с. — (Тайны истории). — ISBN 978-5-222-15625-4, 978-5-9265-0649-2. Книга известного современного российского писателя Бориса Соколова посвящена как уже известным, так и скрытым от постороннего взора эпизодам деятельности спецслужб, начиная от Октябре 1917 и заканчивая русско-грузинской "Пятидневной войной" в августе 2008-го. Она заставит...
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М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 528 с.
Во времена бывшего СССР, на нынешних постсоветских просторах издано много литературы о разведке. Некоторые из книг заслуженно стали бестселлерами. К сожалению, "валовые" авторы пишут о разведке понаслышке, дилетантски смешивая в одну кучу ее различные виды, а для пикантности щедро заправляя свои творения соусом из агентурных страстей, чем...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 528 с.
Во времена бывшего СССР, на нынешних постсоветских просторах издано много литературы о разведке. Некоторые из книг заслуженно стали бестселлерами. К сожалению, «валовые» авторы пишут о разведке понаслышке, дилетантски смешивая в одну кучу ее различные виды, а для пикантности щедро заправляя свои творения соусом из агентурных страстей, чем...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 528 с.
Во времена бывшего СССР, на нынешних постсоветских просторах издано много литературы о разведке. Некоторые из книг заслуженно стали бестселлерами. К сожалению, «валовые» авторы пишут о разведке понаслышке, дилетантски смешивая в одну кучу ее различные виды, а для пикантности щедро заправляя свои творения соусом из агентурных страстей, чем...
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М.: Алгоритм, 2018. — 260 с. — (Разведка и контрразведка). — ISBN: 978-5-907028-32-6. Эта книга — рассказ писателя-историка Геннадия Соколова о тайнах знаменитого «скандала века» — дела британского военного министра Джона Профьюмо. Тогда, в 1963 году, помощник советского военно-морского атташе Евгений Иванов, работавший в середине прошлого века при дворе короля Норвегии, а...
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М.: Алгоритм, 2017. — 430 с. — (Разведка и контрразведка). — ISBN: 978-5-906947-83-3. 26 рассказов об удивительных исторических расследованиях, проведенных автором за последние 30 лет. Что связывает пропавшую в 1940 году корону королевы всех бельгийцев Елизаветы и генерала Серова, который более 10 лет руководил КГБ и ГРУ. Был ли глава ВМФ и ВМС Великобритании адмирал лорд...
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Л: Лениздат, 1965. — 199 с. В этой книге рассказывается о формах и методах идеологических диверсий, проводимых империализмом, раскрывается механизм буржуазной пропаганды, опирающейся на антикоммунистические центры, антисоветские организации, на деятельность иностранных разведывательных органов. Критикуя буржуазную идеологию и разоблачая антикоммунистический характер...
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М.: Добрая книга, 2018. — 290 с. — ISBN: 978-5-98124-719-4. Части специального назначения (СпН) советской военной разведки были одним из самых главных военных секретов Советского Союза. По замыслу советского командования эти части должны были играть ключевую роль в грядущей ядерной войне со странами Запада, и именно поэтому даже сам факт их существования тщательно скрывался....
М.: Добрая книга, 2018. — 290 с. — ISBN: 978-5-98124-719-4. Части специального назначения (СпН) советской военной разведки были одним из самых главных военных секретов Советского Союза. По замыслу советского командования эти части должны были играть ключевую роль в грядущей ядерной войне со странами Запада, и именно поэтому даже сам факт их существования тщательно скрывался....
М.: Добрая книга, 2018. — 290 с. — ISBN: 978-5-98124-719-4. Части специального назначения (СпН) советской военной разведки были одним из самых главных военных секретов Советского Союза. По замыслу советского командования эти части должны были играть ключевую роль в грядущей ядерной войне со странами Запада, и именно поэтому даже сам факт их существования тщательно скрывался....
М.: Вече, 2021. — 270 с. — (Миссия выполнима). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8640-1. Новая книга известного писателя, автора многих исторических и приключенческих произведений Богдана Сушинского посвящена нашумевшей в 60-х годах прошлого столетия секретной операции, связанной с вербовкой британской и американской разведками высокопоставленного офицера ГРУ полковника Олега Пеньковского; а...
М.: Вече, 2021. — 270 с. — (Миссия выполнима). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8640-1. Новая книга известного писателя, автора многих исторических и приключенческих произведений Богдана Сушинского посвящена нашумевшей в 60-х годах прошлого столетия секретной операции, связанной с вербовкой британской и американской разведками высокопоставленного офицера ГРУ полковника Олега Пеньковского; а...
М.: Вече, 2021. — 270 с. — (Миссия выполнима). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8640-1. Новая книга известного писателя, автора многих исторических и приключенческих произведений Богдана Сушинского посвящена нашумевшей в 60-х годах прошлого столетия секретной операции, связанной с вербовкой британской и американской разведками высокопоставленного офицера ГРУ полковника Олега Пеньковского; а...
Київ: КНТ, 2007. — 352 с. — ISBN 966-3 73-200-8 Таємнича діяльність розвідок з попередження замислів супротивника велась з давніх часів. Ця книга на широкому обсязі фактичного матеріалу розповідає про історію діяльності таємних служб на території України з часів Київської Русі до початку XVIII ст. Книга створена на основі архівних і службових документів, досліджень широкого...
М.: Терра, 1997. — 528 с. Книга французских писателей - монументальный труд по истории развития разведслужб разных стран мира. Книга содержит богатый фактический материал о возникновении, становлении, взаимодействии и развитии спецслужб, о наиболее выдающихся представителях и спецоперациях (с 1870 по 1939 гг)
М.: Терра, 1997. — 528 с. — (Секретные миссии). — ISBN 5-300-01550-4. Книга французских авторов Роже Фалиго и Реми Коффера — монументальный труд по истории разведывательных служб разных стран мира. Исследование содержит богатый фактический материал о становлении, развитии, взаимодействии спецслужб, об их наиболее выдающихся представителях и крупных операциях. В этот том вошли...
М.: Терра, 1997. — 528 с. — (Секретные миссии). — ISBN 5-300-01550-4. Книга французских авторов Роже Фалиго и Реми Коффера — монументальный труд по истории разведывательных служб разных стран мира. Исследование содержит богатый фактический материал о становлении, развитии, взаимодействии спецслужб, об их наиболее выдающихся представителях и крупных операциях. В этот том вошли...
М.: Терра, 1997. — 528 с. — (Секретные миссии). — ISBN 5-300-01550-4. Книга французских авторов Роже Фалиго и Реми Коффера — монументальный труд по истории разведывательных служб разных стран мира. Исследование содержит богатый фактический материал о становлении, развитии, взаимодействии спецслужб, об их наиболее выдающихся представителях и крупных операциях. В этот том вошли...
М.: Терра, 1997. — 528 с. — (Секретные миссии). — ISBN 5-300-01550-4. Книга французских авторов Роже Фалиго и Реми Коффера - монументальный труд по истории разведывательных служб разных стран мира. Исследование содержит богатый фактический материал о становлении, развитии, взаимодействии спецслужб, об их наиболее выдающихся представителях и крупных операциях. В этот том вошли...
М.: Терра, 1998. — 304 с. — (Секретные миссии). — ISBN 5-300-01670-5. Книга французских авторов Роже Фалиго и Реми Коффера — монументальный труд по истории разведывательных служб разных стран мира. Исследование содержит богатый фактический материал о становлении, развитии, взаимодействии спецслужб, об их наиболее выдающихся представителях и крупных операциях. В этот том вошли...
М.: Терра, 1998. — 304 с. — (Секретные миссии). — ISBN 5-300-01670-5. Книга французских авторов Роже Фалиго и Реми Коффера — монументальный труд по истории разведывательных служб разных стран мира. Исследование содержит богатый фактический материал о становлении, развитии, взаимодействии спецслужб, об их наиболее выдающихся представителях и крупных операциях. В этот том вошли...
М.: Терра, 1998. — 304 с. — (Секретные миссии). — ISBN 5-300-01670-5. Книга французских авторов Роже Фалиго и Реми Коффера - монументальный труд по истории разведывательных служб разных стран мира. Исследование содержит богатый фактический материал о становлении, развитии, взаимодействии спецслужб, об их наиболее выдающихся представителях и крупных операциях. В этот том вошли...
Москва: Терра, 1998. — 304 с. — (Секретные миссии). — ISBN 5-300-01670-5. Книга французских авторов Роже Фалиго и Реми Коффера — монументальный труд по истории разведывательных служб разных стран мира. Исследование содержит богатый фактический материал о становлении, развитии, взаимодействии спецслужб, об их наиболее выдающихся представителях и крупных операциях. В этот том...
Москва: Терра, 1998. — 304 с. — (Секретные миссии). — ISBN 5-300-01670-5. Книга французских авторов Роже Фалиго и Реми Коффера - монументальный труд по истории разведывательных служб разных стран мира. Исследование содержит богатый фактический материал о становлении, развитии, взаимодействии спецслужб, об их наиболее выдающихся представителях и крупных операциях. Во второй том...
М.: Международные отношения, 1979. — 299 с. Свыше десяти лет автор книги — американский журналист собирал материал о деятельности немецкой военной разведки — абвера. Работа осложнялась тем, что гитлеровцы в конце второй мировой войны постарались уничтожить свои архивы. Но Л. Фараго повезло. Ему удалось обнаружить ящик с тысячами микропленок, на которых были сфотографированы...
Пер. с англ. А.Л. Уткин. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2019. — 352 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5340-1. Ладислас Фараго, бывший начальник отдела исследований и планирования в специальном военном подразделении ВМС США, автор нескольких книг по шпионажу, предлагает захватывающую картину всего спектра тайной деятельности, различных форм разведки секретных служб стран – участниц Второй мировой...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2019. — 410 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5340-1. Ладислас Фараго, бывший начальник отдела исследований и планирования в специальном военном подразделении ВМС США, автор нескольких книг по шпионажу, предлагает захватывающую картину всего спектра тайной деятельности, различных форм разведки секретных служб стран — участниц Второй мировой войны. Результатом действий...
Сост. В.А. Мартынова. — Пер с англ. — М.: Политиздат, 1990. — 222 с. — ISBN: 5-250-00509-8. Перевод с английского. В сборник включены рефераты вышедших в начале 80-х годов XX в. книг трех авторов - двух американцев и одного англичанина: Франк Дж. Доннер "Век слежки. Политический сыск в США"; Джеймс Бэмфорд "Дворец головоломок (АНБ)"; Брайан Фримэнтл "Центральное...
Екатеринбург: Гонзо, 2014. — 99 стр. — ISBN: 978-5-904577-28-5 В своей книге, вызвавшей противоречивые отклики, профессионал, посвятивший долгие годы службе, представляет свое видение некоторых громких провалов военной разведки на современном этапе истории, включая события в Ираке, связанные с неправильным истолкованием разведывательной информации правительствами стран...
Екатеринбург: Гонзо, 2014. — 99 с. — ISBN: 978-5-904577-28-5. В своей книге, вызвавшей противоречивые отклики, профессионал, посвятивший долгие годы службе, представляет свое видение некоторых громких провалов военной разведки на современном этапе истории, включая события в Ираке, связанные с неправильным истолкованием разведывательной информации правительствами стран...
Екатеринбург: Гонзо, 2014. — 99 с. — ISBN: 978-5-904577-28-5.
В своей книге, вызвавшей противоречивые отклики, профессионал, посвятивший долгие годы службе, представляет свое видение некоторых громких провалов военной разведки на современном этапе истории, включая события в Ираке, связанные с неправильным истолкованием разведывательной информации правительствами стран...
М.: Политиздат, 1973. — 399 с. В книге С. К. Цвигуна «Тайный фронт» раскрывается подрывная деятельность, которую ведут против СССР и всего социалистического содружества империалистические разведки и другие специальные службы, а также реакционные пропагандистские организации и центры капиталистических государств. Автор использовал в книге большой фактический материал. Книга...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 2004. — 367 с. — ISBN: 5-235-02712-4. Историю разведки у нас порой толкуют так же, как и историю нашего государства. Для одних спецслужбы - это святая святых; для других - черное прошлое. Сегодня исследователи уже получили доступ к архивам спецслужб, и любая версия имеет право на существование. Однако редко можно встретить непредвзятую оценку того, как на...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 2004. — 367 с. — ISBN: 5-235-02712-4. Историю разведки у нас порой толкуют так же, как и историю нашего государства. Для одних спецслужбы - это святая святых; для других - черное прошлое. Сегодня исследователи уже получили доступ к архивам спецслужб, и любая версия имеет право на существование. Однако редко можно встретить непредвзятую оценку того, как на...
Москва: Молодая гвардия, 2004. — 367 с. — ISBN: 5-235-02712-4. Историю разведки у нас порой толкуют так же, как и историю нашего государства. Для одних спецслужбы - это святая святых; для других - черное прошлое. Сегодня исследователи уже получили доступ к архивам спецслужб, и любая версия имеет право на существование. Однако редко можно встретить непредвзятую оценку того, как на...
Москва: БДЦ-пресс, 2003. — 544 с. Авторы намеренно отказались от детективного сюжета и сенсационных разоблачений, характерных для жанра литературы о разведке. Уникальное, не имеющее аналогов по глубине выводной информации и объему научно-публицистическое содержание книги не содержит одиозных оценок и претенциозной критики. Предлагаемые читателю отдельные фрагменты мирового...
Москва: Вече, 2022. — 263 с. — (Военные тайны XX века). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8767-5. При освещении темы военно-политического противостояния разных государств многие исследователи упускают из виду или не уделяют должного внимания вопросам борьбы за первенство в сфере научно-технического прогресса, даже если речь идет о военно-промышленных комплексах и их конкуренции друг с другом....
Москва: Вече, 2022. — 263 с. — (Военные тайны XX века). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8767-5. При освещении темы военно-политического противостояния разных государств многие исследователи упускают из виду или не уделяют должного внимания вопросам борьбы за первенство в сфере научно-технического прогресса, даже если речь идет о военно-промышленных комплексах и их конкуренции друг с другом....
Москва: Вече, 2022. — 263 с. — (Военные тайны XX века). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8767-5. При освещении темы военно-политического противостояния разных государств многие исследователи упускают из виду или не уделяют должного внимания вопросам борьбы за первенство в сфере научно-технического прогресса, даже если речь идет о военно-промышленных комплексах и их конкуренции друг с другом....
М.: Прогресс, 1974. — 233 с. Книга об истории воздушного шпионажа с момента его зарождения и до последних лет, когда на смену шпионам-самолетам пришли шпионы-спутники. В основном это книга о наиболее широком виде военного шпионажа против социалистических стран, в котором использовались новейшие и самые выдающиеся достижения техники. От издательства Насосная установка Палатки в...
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