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The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5

By Christopher Andrew

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents

By Corera, Gordon

Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History

By Ben Mezrich

The Putin Corporation: How to Poison Elections

By Yuri Felshtinsky, Vladimir Pribylovsky

Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia

By Luke Harding

Who Paid The Piper?: The CIA And The Cultural Cold War

By Frances Stonor Saunders

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

By Suleika Dawson

John le Carré: The Biography

By Sisman, Adam

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By David Talbot

The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.

By Damien Lewis

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy

By Sonia Purnell

MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949

By Keith Jeffery

Killing Pablo

By Mark Bowden

The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake

By Roger Hermiston

MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations

By Stephen Dorril

Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors

By Amy Knight

The Last Assassin

By Peter Stothard

The Spy Who Changed The World

By Rossiter, Mike

PROSPER: Major Suttill's French Resistance Network (Espionage)

By Francis J. Suttill

A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE

By Helm, Sarah

Total Surveillance: Investigating the Big Brother World of E-spies, Eavesdroppers and CCTV

By Parker, John

The Elephant to Hollywood: The Autobiography

By Caine, Michael

Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the Nazis

By Seaman, Mark

Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE

By Kate Vigurs

Her Finest Hour: The Heroic Life of Diana Rowden, Wartime Secret Agent

By McDonald-Rothwell, Gabrielle

My Life in France: The life story of Julia Child - 'exuberant, affectionate and boundlessly charming' New York Times

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts

Life Under Fire: How to Build Inner Strength and Thrive Under Pressure

By Jason Fox

Commando: The Inside Story of Britain's Royal Marines

By Monty Halls

Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World

By Charles A. Kupchan (Professor of International Affairs and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Professor of International Affairs and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, The School of Foreign Service and Government Departm...

CIA: Secrets of 'The Company'

By Farren, Mick