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

By Luke Harding

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

By Ray Bearse, Anthony Read

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

By Mark Aarons, John Loftus

Zigzag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman

By Nicholas Booth

Permanent Record

By Edward Snowden

The CIA Book Club

By Charlie English

Operation Biting

By Max Hastings

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

By Stephen Alford

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

By Ewen Montagu

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

By Patrick Whinney

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

By Corera, Gordon

Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown

By Moore, Roger

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)

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

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

The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories

By Michael Smith

Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea

By Jeffrey T. Richelson

Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield

By Martin Pearce

The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West

By Lucas, Edward

The Dark Side of Camelot

By Hersh, Seymour

My Five Cambridge Friends

By Yuri Modin, Jean-Charles Deniau, Aguieszka Ziarek

Spy on the Roof of the World

By Sydney Wignall

Fishers of Men - The Gripping True Story of a British Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland

By Rob Lewis

Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess

By Andrew Lownie

Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

By Frank Close

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

By Marita Lorenz, Maria White

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

By Tilar J. Mazzeo

The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West

By Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin

The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World

By Christopher Andrew

A Thorn in Their Side - Hilda Murrell Threatened Britain's Nuclear State. She Was Brutally Murdered. This is the True Story of her Shocking Death

By Robert Green

The Secret Agent's Pocket Manual: 1939-1945

By Dr Stephen Bull