Espionage Biographies

Great Escapes: The story of MI9's Second World War escape and evasion maps

By Barbara Bond

The Spy Who Loved Castro: How I was recruited by the CIA to kill Fidel Castro

By Marita Lorenz, Maria White

The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World

By Christopher Andrew

The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West

By Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin

Sisters in Resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis

By Tilar J. Mazzeo

A Brief History of the Spy: Modern Spying from the Cold War to the War on Terror

By Paul Simpson

The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories

By Michael Smith

Stalin's Agent: The Life and Death of Alexander Orlov

By Boris Volodarsky (Independent Intelligence Analyst, Independent Intelligence Analyst)

Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance

By Ioanna Iordanou (Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Oxford Brookes University)

Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown

By Moore, Roger

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells & the Hunt for Putin’s Agents

By Corera, Gordon

Corsican Command: A Dramatic First-hand Account of Clandestine Operations in the Western Mediterranean, 1943-1944

By Patrick Whinney

The Man Who Never Was: The Remarkable True Story of Operation Mincemeat

By Ewen Montagu

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

By Stephen Alford

Operation Biting

By Max Hastings

The CIA Book Club

By Charlie English

Permanent Record

By Edward Snowden

Zigzag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman

By Nicholas Booth

Ratlines: How the Vatican's Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets

By Mark Aarons, John Loftus

Conspirator: The Untold Story of Churchill, Roosevelt and Tyler Kent, Spy

By Ray Bearse, Anthony Read

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man

By Luke Harding

Selected Letters

By John le Carre

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

By Damien Lewis