Cornell University Press, 2023. — 245 p. Khmer Nationalist is a political history of Cambodia from World War II until 1975, examining the central role of Sõn Ngc Thành. It is a story of nationalistic independence movements, political intrigue, coup attempts, war, and American intelligence. The rise of Cambodian nationalism, the brief period of Japanese dominance, the fight for...
Brookings Institution Press, 2015. — 250 p. Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war. The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But during the same week that the world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union,...
Czerwone i Czarne, 2018. — 224 p. Jak działało CIA w Polsce? W jaki sposób zdobywało współpracowników? Jakie metody stosował polski kontrwywiad, depcząc po piętach amerykańskim szpiegom? Jak wyglądały kulisy słynnej wymiany szpiegów na moście Glienicke? Kim jest Leszek Chróst i Zbigniew Twerd? Autor dotarł do osób i faktów nigdy jeszcze nie ujawnionych.
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 329 p. This book is an in-depth examination of the relations between Ireland and the former East Germany between the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It explores political, diplomatic, economic, media and cultural issues. The long and tortuous process of establishing diplomatic relations is unique in the annals of...
Dialogue, 2014. — 208 p. Discover an extraordinary, true-life adventure that could have appeared straight from the pages of a John le Carré Cold War novel. In February 1962 Gary Powers, the American pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace, was released by his Russian captors in exchange for one of their own, Soviet KGB Colonel William Fisher. Colonel...
Crown Publishing Group, 2011. — 320 p. Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence Medal. But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his...
W. Morrow, 1989. — 254 р. Written by an acknowledged expert in the intelligence field, Molehunt is an intriguing story of how MI5 tried to pinpoint the moles within the inner sanctum of British counterintelligence. 8 pages of photos.
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...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 425 p. A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s leading intelligence experts. Spying has never been more ubiquitous―or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are more congressional experts on...
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...
Cottage Grove Editions, 2021. — 403 p. There is an enduring fascination with the secret history of the two world wars. This follow-up to Castaways of the Kriegsmarine examines the genesis of prisoner interrogation as an intelligence resource. We see how British naval intelligence officers were the first in the world to notice and exploit a loophole in the Hague Convention. We...
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...
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?...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 384 p. This book is the result of collaboration between Peter Mattis, an analyst of the modern People’s Republic of China (PRC) intelligence community, and Matthew Brazil, a historian of early Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence operations and a former corporate investigator. We hope that this material will be of interest to those seeking a...
The History Press, 2022. — 208 p. In 1953, Ian Fleming's literary sensation James Bond emerged onto the world's stage. Nearly seven decades later, he has become a multi-billion-pound film franchise, now equipped with all the gizmos of the modern world. Yet Fleming's creation, who battled his way through the fourteen novels from 1953 to 1966, was a maverick – a man out of place....
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 352 p. The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation. On a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedicated a stained glass window to J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI director was not an evangelical, but his Christian admirers anointed him as their...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. — 387 p. This is the first biography in English of a World War II heroine of the Greek resistance, who joined the British secret intelligence services (SIS) shortly after the German occupation of Athens and was betrayed, arrested and executed one month before the Germans’ departure. She was a prosperous housewife with seven children, who had no...
New Word City, 2016. — 224 p. The American Civil War was one of the most harrowing conflicts in history. What many of us don't know is the key role that spies played on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line during the four-year struggle. This shadow war was played out by an intriguing lineup of players: detective agency chief Allan Pinkerton, who was said to have thwarted a...
Charles River Editors, 2018. — 90 p. The fighting in North Africa during World War II is commonly overlooked, aside from the famous battle at El Alamein that pitted the British under General Bernard Montgomery against the legendary “Desert Fox,” Erwin Rommel. But while the Second Battle of El Alamein would be the pivotal action in North Africa, the conflict in North Africa...
Frontline Books, 2020. — 257 p. After the Great War, there was much debate in the USA whether the country should isolate itself from ‘old world’ conflicts or follow an imperialist path and become the world’s only superpower. If the USA was to become a superpower, then conflict with Great Britain might result. Consequently, the US drew up War Plan Red. This was a scheme for the...
Milo Books, 2018. — 405 p. Drug War is a landmark modern history: the first ever full account of the United Kingdom’s fight against the illegal importation of drugs. Packed with remarkable revelations and thrilling anecdotes, it tells for the first time the story of the high-level traffickers who drugged Britain, and the secretive organisation that tried to stop them: 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...
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...
Hachette, 2020. — 352 p. From the best-selling author of The Commando and Born to Fight comes a fascinating investigation of modern warfare that combines methodical research and the fast-paced action of battle with the personal stories of the combatants on both sides of the line. Taking us from the suburbs of western Sydney and Australia's military army bases, to the...
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...
Open Road Distribution, 2015. — 257 p. Dangerous Dossiers is as powerful and relevant today as it was when it first made worldwide headlines 25 years ago: a chilling reminder of the dangers of unfettered government intrusion into the lives and beliefs of private citizens, whether famous or not. This shocking account by award-winning author and former New York Times cultural...
Crown, 2008. — 320 p. A gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism in the face of bitter hatred. Abraham Bolden was a young African American Secret Service agent in Chicago when he was asked by John F. Kennedy himself to join the White House Secret Service detail. For Bolden, it was a dream come true–and an encouraging sign of the charismatic president’s...
Greenhill Books, 2021. — 239 p. The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is the extraordinary untold story of the Y-Service, a secret even...
Stato Maggiore della Difesa, 2021. — 377 p. The attention paid by the Italian historiography of the Great War to the war events and the technological and industrial characteristics assumed by the conflict still has little evidence in more specific sectors, characterized by high technical components. Among these, for example, there are some Intelligence activities and in...
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...
Charles River Editors, 2018. — 54 p. Europe’s attempts to appease Adolf Hitler, most notably at Munich in 1938, failed, as Nazi Germany swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia by 1939. Italy was on the march as well, invading Albania in April of 1939. The straw that broke the camel's back, however, was Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1 of that year. Two days later,...
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...
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.
Levant Books, 2012. — 356 p. Shedding light on tumultuous events in Syria, Iran, and the entire Middle East, Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars covers more ground than any other book about modern-day Israel. Its 25 action-packed chapters and detailed endnotes are filled with colorful characters, who risk their lives and reputations in the secret service of...
Octavo Editions, 2010. — 400 p. Germ warfare? Secret mind control programs? New tell-all to be featured prominently in a National Geographic television special recounts the CIA's dirtiest deeds from insiders who have been there. In the late summer of 2001, prolific and best-selling British author Gordon Thomas received five CD-ROM disks, containing some 22,000 documents...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2023. — 275 p. On January 16th Witzke and several confederates departed Mexico City for the U.S. border. After crossing 1500 miles of rugged territory, encountering bandits and other hazards along the way, Witzke reached Nogales. But unknown to the saboteur-assassin, the German espionage network in Mexico had been penetrated by Allied...
Rizzoli, 2013. — 668 p. Il libro di Morris e Black è la storia completa dei tre servizi segreti d'Israele: il Mossad (internazionale), lo Shin Bet (nazionale) e l'Aman (militare). Sulla base di un'estesa documentazione incrociata - relazioni, memorandum, rapporti interni a lungo tenuti segreti, diari privati - analizza i trionfi e gli errori dello spionaggio israeliano, dagli...
Издание автора, 2022. — 230 с. — (Школа специальной войны). Книга рассказывает о подразделениях специального назначения Сербии, об истории, вооружении, подготовке и боевых операциях Сербского спецназа, а также о Югославской войне и о конфликте в Косово. Вторая книга из серии "Школа специальной войны". История создания спецназа Сербии и Югославии. Спецназ Сербии борцы с террором...
Harper Collins Canada, 2023. — 224 p. The thrilling true story of Agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis, and the first spy to crack Hitler's deadliest secret code: the framework of the Final Solution. In public life, Dr. Winthrop Bell of Halifax was a Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman. As MI6 secret agent A12, he evaded gunfire and shook off pursuers to...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2004. — 600 с.: ил. В воспоминаниях начальников Московского охранного отделения П.П. Заварзина и А.П. Мартынова, начальника Петербургского охранного отделения А.В. Герасимова и директора Департамента полиции А.Т. Васильева подробно описана "кухня" российского политического сыска конца XIX - начала XX веков, даны характеристики его ключевых...
Collins, 2005. — 648 p. Her Majesty’s Royal Marines have served their Sovereign and country with courage and distinction since 1664. From spearheading the recovery of the Falklands to supporting the efforts of the UN, the Corps is an essential component of the British Armed Forces, steeped in proud service and tradition. Between 1919 and 1997 the Corps experienced a period of...
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,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 217 р. The raid on St Nazaire has gone down in history as one of the most daring commando raids of all time. Given the code name of Operation Chariot, it took place in the early hours of Saturday, 28 March 1942, and was a joint undertaking by the Royal Navy and British Commando units. The port at St Nazaire, which sits on the Loire estuary and...
Casemate Publishers, 2021. — 272 p. During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency’s biggest and longest paramilitary operation was in the tiny kingdom of Laos. Hundreds of advisors and support personnel trained and led guerrilla formations across the mountainous Laotian countryside, as well as running smaller road-watch and agent teams that stretched from the Ho Chi Minh...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 381 p. Stalin’s Singing Spy follows the remarkable life of Nadezhda Plevitskaya, a Russian peasant girl who achieved fame as one of Tsar Nicholas II’s favorite singers and infamy as one of Stalin’s agents. Pamela A. Jordan traces Plevitskaya’s life from her childhood in an isolated village to national stardom. She always declared that...
Военная мысль. — 2022. — №7. — с. 130-145. Рассматриваются факторы, определившие создание и направления деятельности органов шведской военной разведки в конце XIX - начале XX вв., представлен обзор их истории и организационного оформления. Особое внимание уделено российскому направлению в деятельности шведской военной разведки.
Ученые записки. Научный журнал Курского государственного университета. — 2022. — № 1 (61). — с. 2-8. В статье рассказывается о формировании политической полиции в одном из крупнейших регионов Российской империи – Курской губернии. На материалах губернского жандармского управления (ГЖУ) показан процесс становления политического сыска, формирование его руководящего состава, а...
Вестник науки и образования. — 2022. — №2. — с. 2-4. В статье анализируются роль и значение разведки в обеспечении безопасности империи Амира Темура. Кроме этого, освещаются пути и методы, способы применения и использование службы разведки, в основе которой находятся исторические и научные источники. Как известно, с появлением могущественного государства в Мовароуннахре в...
Вестник Уфимского юридического института МВД России. — 2022. — № 2 (96). — с. 30–36. В статье проводится анализ Циркуляров департамента полиции Российской империи, направленных на организацию деятельности сотрудников МВД России по борьбе со шпионажем. Делается вывод, что этот вид нормативного акта, во-первых, разъяснял сотрудникам охранных и жандармских подразделений, как вести...
Вестник Краснодарского университета МВД России. — 2022. — № 1 (55). — с. 88-93. Рассматривается деятельность немецкой разведки в ближайшем русском тылу - в южной части Лифляндии с административным центром в Риге. Оперируя не введенными в научный оборот первоисточниками, авторы приходят к заключению о том, что этот город и его порт с расположенными там военными и морскими силами...