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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
War ...
An authoritative history of the tank and the remarkable individuals who designed them and fought in them, from a former soldier and best-selling historian
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The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man - Vasili Mitrokhin - turned first disaffected dissident and then ...
This is the forgotten tale of MI6's top spy in Nazi Germany and his bid to stop the Second World War. In the world ...
The true story of the clandestine British organisation briefed to wage psychological warfare to beat the Nazis, for fans of Ben Macintyre and Sinclair McKay ...
'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 ...
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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 . . .
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Discover the key themes and big ideas behind the major events and milestones in the history of warfare - from ...
The Spycatcher affair remains one of the most intriguing moments in the history of British intelligence and a pivotal point in the public's relationship ...
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a ...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Of all the books about the ground war in the Pacific, [this] is the closest to a masterpiece."-The New York ...
Richard Sorge is one of history's most famous spies. This hard-drinking, womanising, motorcycle-crashing Soviet officer penetrated the German embassy in Tokyo during the 1930s ...
In the 1880s, Khartoum became the explosive touchstone for a conflict whose scars continue today.For Victorian Britain, control over North Africa was a political ...
