Espionage and secret services

New York City has long been a breeding ground for spies, saboteurs, terrorists, and other threats to the nation and its greatest city.

Ein unerhörter Faktenthriller von der Entstehung und Ausbreitung des islamischen Fundamentalismus mit Hilfe Nazi-Deutschlands und der CIA.

This fascinating account of how two young Americans turned traitor during the Cold War is an “absolutely smashing real-life spy story” (The New York Times Book Review).

The cross-border sharing of intelligence is fundamental to the establishment and preservation of security and stability.

“Our most provocative scholar of American power” reveals the forces behind the assassination of JFK—and their continuing influence over our world (David Talbot, Salon).

This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964.

Stories from the Civil War through WWIIIn The Greatest Spy Stories Ever Told, our editor has pulled together some of the finest writings about spies that capture readers imaginations.

The rise of a populist conservative nationalism in the United States has triggered unease at home and abroad.

In the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage.

Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity-and futility-of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao.

Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.

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.

Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot explores the parallel lives of World War II legend Tokyo Rose and a Japanese American woman named Iva Toguri.

Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade-and its devastating consequences for workers around the world.

A wealthy lawyer, debonair ladies' man, consummate actor, and courageous gambler, Dusko Popov played the role of playboy amongst the top echelons of British society to become one of Germany's most trusted spies.

From the former director of GCHQ, learn the methodology used by British intelligence agencies to reach judgements, establish the right level of confidence and act decisively.

During World War II, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) infiltrated Japanese-occupied Malaya.

When Heinz Luning posed as a Jewish refugee to spy for Hitler's Abwehr espionage agency, he thought he had discovered the perfect solution to his most pressing problem: how to avoid being drafted into Hitler's army.

Recent scandals like WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden's disclosure of NSA documents have brought public debates over government accountability and secrecy bubbling to the surface.

Translated into English for the first time, this is a fascinating history of intelligence practices and their impact on great power rivalries in the early modern eraIn the sixteenth century, an intense rivalry between the Ottoman Empire and the Spanish Habsburg Empire and its allies spurred the creation of early modern intelligence.

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.

Schattenmächte enthüllt die verborgene Welt der Verschwörungstheorien, die seit Jahrhunderten die menschliche Gesellschaft prägen.

The Cold War was only cold in that the major powers, the U.

An enthralling insight into the technical side of the secret war behind enemy lines, as SOE and OSS operatives attempted to sabotage the Axis war effort.

Explores how security communities think about time and how this shapes the politics of security in the information age.

NOW IN PAPERBACK-with a new preface by the authorAn insider's account of why the CIA is ill-prepared to protect America, and why it must be replaced without delay*"e;A devastating portrait of the agency's culture-with details that only an insider would know.

Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction'Spellbinding .

Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors-and it assesses the potential for realizing any hopes we might have for reforming intelligence and espionage.

Raul Villamia's childhood in Cuba revolved around baseball and bloodshed.

The United States has struggled to define its approach to what has been called the "e;information battlefield"e; since the information era began.

This is the true story of the Englishman allegedly freed from a French prison after meeting John Amery, the treacherous son of a Cabinet minister, and sent back to Britain to spy - only to be caught, prosecuted and hanged as a traitor.

Sean Hartnett grew up in Cork in the 1970s where he observed the worst of the northern Troubles with fascination.

With the end of the Cold War and the dawning of a new century, the U.

In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign of security .

Russland führt einen Informationskrieg gegen den Westen.

All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively transparent governments.

A New York Times Notable BookWinner of 2022 Lionel Gelber PrizeThe first authoritative history of America's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners.

In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq.

Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.

Born into a Sephardic Jewish immigrant family, Dr.

In Beauty Like The Night, Joanna Bourne, 'master of romance and suspense' (Teresa Medeiros) returns to the French Revolution, with a stirring tale of intrigue, espionage, and irresistible attraction.

Why are some multiethnic countries more prone to civil violence than others?

You've already broken codes in Sinclair McKay's bestselling Bletchley Park Brainteasers, now it's time to pit your wits against the secret heroes of MI5 and MI6 and find out if YOU have what it takes to be a spy!

Maochun Yu tells the story of the intelligence activities of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in China during World War II.

Risk, Threats and the New Normal explains the new political and technological developments that created new domestic national security threats against the nation and the people of the United States.

There has been a shift in the way that we understand the forces behind imperialism.

By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic.