This book offers a vast conceptual and theoretical exploration of the ways intelligence analysis must change in order to succeed against today's most dangerous combatants and most complex irregular theatres of conflict.
Created in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency plays an important part in the nation's intelligence activities, and is currently playing a vital role in the war on terrorism.
Secrets of the Cold War focuses on a dark period of a silent war and offers a new perspective on the struggle between the superpowers of the world told in the words of those who were there.
This is the first major study based on Soviet documents and revelations of the Soviet state security during the period 1939-1953-a period about which relatively little is known.
This book is the first account of the personal lives of the nearly 1,000 long-term political prisoners arrested under various sedition laws for their opposition to World War I, their trade union activities, or their unpopular political or religious beliefs.
When British troops first deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969, to halt the threat of a new rising force - the Provisional Irish Republican Army - they could not have known that the longest campaign in the British Army's history was beginning.
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.
Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding's haunting, brilliant account of the insidious methods used against him by a resurgent Kremlin which led to him becoming the first western reporter to be deported from Russia since the days of the Cold War.
The CIAs 2013 release of its book The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance 19541974 is a fascinating and important historical document.
'Devastating and urgent, this book could not be more timely' Caroline Criado Perez, award-winning and bestselling author of Invisible WomenDanielle Citron takes the conversation about technology and privacy out of the boardrooms and op-eds to reach readers where we are - in our bathrooms and bedrooms; with our families and our lovers; in all the parts of our lives we assume are untouchable - and shows us that privacy, as we think we know it, is largely already gone.
_____________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION_____________'John le Carr demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself' - Financial Times'Uplifting .
_____________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION_____________'John le Carr demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself' - Financial Times'Uplifting .
The astonishing but true story of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War-and the international manhunt that seized global attention as it revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB operatives.
Intrepid's Last Case chronicles the post-World War II activities of Sir William Stephenson, whose fascinating role in helping to defeat the Nazis was the subject of the worldwide bestseller A Man Called Intrepid.
A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officerthe astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War.
'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carr - aka "e;the Cat"e; and "e;Agent Victoire"e; - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The TimesAn exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents.
Fans of Suzanne Brockmann, Maya Banks, Christy Reece, Julie Ann Walker and Cindy Gerard will adore Pamela Clare's expertly plotted romantic suspense series, which sets the pages alight with sizzling chemistry.
Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and pioneer of sizzle history (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.