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A bold, revisionist study which challenges modern misconceptions about the creation of power and the operations of war, from a Professor of Strategic Studies
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Drawing on newly declassified intelligence documents and dozens of interviews with spymasters, The Defector tells a startling story of a Soviet mission to plant fake ...
'An astonishing true story of courage, love and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master'
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'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times
'Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' The Spectator
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A tale of great enterprise and great fortitude, and of wonderful female solidarity and nobility of spirit, in the bleakest of circumstances.
For decades after ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025: 'A masterfully written biography... inspiring and powerful'
'Gripping, moving and important' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
'Agent Zo ...
The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. The public expected it ...
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From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers - what the secret world can teach ...
An unforgettable memoir of life in a family like no other, and their extraordinary, eccentric part in half a century of espionage . . .
As a boy ...
The Cold War had been over for two decades when, in 2010, ten Russian agents were arrested in the United States after a decade-long FBI ...
On 14 August 1943, Adam Hart's great-grandfather Frank Griffiths took off from RAF Tempsford, the SOE 'Special Duties' airbase in rural England. Frank and ...
'Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them, Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and ...
The global stage is increasingly influenced by the pivotal role of secret intelligence and secret services, especially given the growing complexities of international conflicts.
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The tactics, technologies, and turning points
Discover the key themes and big ideas behind the major events and milestones in the history of warfare - from ...
