Espionage and secret services

The A to Z of British Intelligence offers insight into the history and operations of British Intelligence through its more than 1,800 entries, covering a vast and varied cast of characters: the spies and their handlers, the moles and defectors, the political leaders, the top brass, the techniques and jargon, and the many different offices and organizations.

The defection of Igor Gouzenko in September 1945, more so than any other single event, alerted the West to the nature and scale of the Soviet espionage offensive being waged by the Kremlin.

Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture.

Partly Cloudy: Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation explores a number of wrenching ethical issues and challenges faced by military and intelligence personnel.

In The Kremlin Playbook 2: The Enablers, the CSIS Europe Program and the Center for the Study of Democracy explored whether some of these jurisdictions and companies could be enabling forces that amplify Russian malign economic influence in some countries in Europe.

Volume 1:The Imperfect Intersection of National Security and Public Safetyexplains homeland security as a struggle to meet new national security threats with traditional public safety practitioners.

Few professions have experienced change to the same extent as has intelligence.

Corruption, fake news, and the "e;informational autocracy"e; sustaining Putin in powerAfter fading into the background for many years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia suddenly has emerged as a new threat-at least in the minds of many Westerners.

When Edward Snowden hit the send button on a laptop in Hong Kong in June 2013, just shy of his 30th birthday, he became the poster boy for an acutely American conundrum: the tension between the governments constitutional commitment to the privacy of individuals and its responsibility for the safety of the nation.

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.

This combination A-Z encyclopedia and primary document collection provides an authoritative and enlightening overview of U.

Dass der Staatssicherheitsdienst der DDR die Menschen in Ostdeutschland umfassend observierte, kontrollierte und schikanierte, ist bekannt.

The Threat From Within examines what drives Al Qaeda-inspired radicalization to violence, how to detect it, and how to confront it.

Why are we still at ';war' with terror 16 years after 9/11?

La obra periodística más influyente de la historia, que acabó con un presidente y que ganó del premio Pulitzer.

A comienzos de 1930 Nancy Wake disfrutaba la vida bohemia de París.

Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad - Under Western Eyes takes place in St.

»Wir wissen nicht, was im Haftkrankenhaus des Stasi-Untersuchungsgefängnisses inBerlin-Hohenschönhausen wirklich geschah«, resümierte der Vorsitzende Richter am Berliner Landgericht in einem Verfahren gegen Horst Böttger, das im September 2000 seinen Abschluss fand.

Seit dem NSU-Skandal steckt der Verfassungsschutz in einer tiefen Vertrauens- und Sinnkrise.

Seit dem NSU-Skandal steckt der Verfassungsschutz in einer tiefen Vertrauens- und Sinnkrise.

Die Möglichkeiten zum Speichern, Transportieren und Auswerten von Daten wachsen rasant.

Das Ende des Kalten Kriegs 1989 beendete auch in der Schweiz eine Ära des Verdachts.

Kriege, Konflikte, Terrorismus, Cyberangriffe, zunehmende Bedrohungen – die Welt wird immer unsicherer.

Trump in Putins Hand liefert die erste umfassende Untersuchung der jahrzehntelangen Beziehungen zwischen Donald Trump, Wladimir Putin und der russischen Mafia, die letztlich dazu beigetragen hat, Trump ins Weiße Haus zu hieven.

Ein Geheimagent macht keinen UrlaubEndlich Ferien.

Zwei Brüder zwischen den Fronten der Geheimdienste, von der Stasi erpresst, gefangen in Ostberlin.

Ob in der Ukraine, in Syrien oder im «Ölkrieg» gegen Venezuela – Konflikte um Grenzen und Machtansprüche auf Territorien gestalten sich heute komplexer denn je.

Gabriele Gast arbeitete fast zwei Jahrzehnte in der Zentrale des BND.

Mitten im Kalten Krieg ist die atomare Bedrohung allgegenwärtig.

Ron Evans was probably the most notorious Soviet spy of British nationality working out of Scandinavia in the post-War era.

A comprehensive two-volume overview and analysis of all facets of espionage in the American historical experience, focusing on key individuals and technologies.

Schnelle Action, coole Technik und ein echt lässiger Held - die megaspannende Agenten-Story zum Durchsuchten und Mitfiebern.

WHAT IF HITLER HAD SURVIVED?

Throughout history, secret services have been employed by repressive regimes to keep the populace in check at home, while hiring agents to collect intelligence abroad.

The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within'.

It was the conflict that shocked America and the world, but the struggle for peace is central to the history of the Vietnam War.

John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century.

Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment.

At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess.

The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within'.

Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment.

In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by parts of the Burmese population.

In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek - the head of China's military academy and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) - began the `northern expeditions' to bring China's northern territories back under the control of the state.

A few years before he died James MacGibbon confessed to his close family that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II.

During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan.

John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century.

Edward Snowden's revelations about the mass surveillance capabilities of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other security services triggered an ongoing debate about the relationship between privacy and security in the digital world.

In this classic account, Bernard Wasserstein draws on the files of the Shanghai Police as well as the intelligence archives of the many countries involved, to provide the definitive story of Shanghai's secret war.

It was the conflict that shocked America and the world, but the struggle for peace is central to the history of the Vietnam War.

"Deutsche Staatschefs und deutsche Botschafter in Moskau kamen und gingen – aber Gustav Hilger blieb.