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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 ...
'No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win him a second Pulitzer' JOHN SIMPSON, GUARDIAN ...
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 ...
'An astonishing true story of courage, love and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master'
MICK HERRON
'This remarkable book ...
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 ...
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 ...
For the first time ever, New York Times bestselling author and former CIA operative Robert Baer tells the explosive story of how insiders believe a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times
'Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' The Spectator
'A spectacular achievement ...
Best Books of 2024, The Economist
From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers - what the secret world can teach ...
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
Tanks ...
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 ...
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 ...