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

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts

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 Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5

By Christopher Andrew

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...

The Elephant to Hollywood: The Autobiography

By Caine, Michael

The Blake Escape: How We Freed George Blake - and Why

By Randle, Michael, Pottle, Pat

Rasputin: The role of Britain s Secret Service in his Torture and Murder: Britain's Secret Service and the Torture and Murder of Russia's Mad Monk

By Richard Cullen

Smear!: Wilson and the Secret State

By Dorril, Stephen, Ramsey, Robin

Ultra Goes to War: The Secret Story (Penguin Classic Military History S.)

By Lewin, Ronald

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 Spy Who Changed The World

By Rossiter, Mike

Fighting for Queen and Country: One Man's True Story of Blood and Violence in the Paras and the SAS

By Ely, Nigel

CIA: Secrets of 'The Company'

By Farren, Mick

Black Ops: Danny Black Thriller 7

By Ryan, Chris

Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE

By Kate Vigurs

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

By Seaman, Mark