A unique insiders' account of what CIA intelligence analysts do and why it mattersThe common perception of a CIA officer is someone who collects secret intelligence abroad-a spy.
Early espionage organisations like Walsingham's Elizabethan spy network were private enterprises, tasked with keeping the Tudor Queen and her government safe.
Spy Sub is the acclaimed story of the secret mission by the USS Viperfish to find a lost Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles in the great depths of the Pacific Ocean.
In the wake of World War II, the United States and its allies developed a new type of security arrangement in which a state could maintain a long-term, peacetime military presence on the territory of another equally sovereign state that, unlike earlier practice, was not tied to occupational regimes or colonial rule.
The need to defend against terrorist outrages has drawn unprecedented public attention to modern-day global espionage, from the US government's involvement in the politics of the Middle East, Europe and Africa, to the surveillance of their own citizens by governments throughout the western world.
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.
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.
A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time.
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.
This book examines the evolution of global terrorism, including the people and groups who have perpetuated the worst attacks and the people and agencies working to stop them.
From the Russian revolutions of 1917 to the end of the Civil War in 1920, Woodrow Wilson's administration sought to oppose the Bolsheviks in a variety of covert ways.
The nearly forgotten story of Soviet dissidentsIt has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Unionenough time for the role that the courageous dissidents ultimately contributed to the communist system's collapse to have been largely forgotten, especially in the West.
In the 2010 federal election, independent candidate Andrew Wilkie grabbed headlines after winning the seat of Denison, and with it a key role in deciding who would form the next government of Australia.
An introduction to Putin's formidable intelligence and security organizationSince its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB.