Military History of Military Intelligence & Espionage

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America’s Top Secrets

By Lokhova, Svetlana

War plc: The Rise of the New Corporate Mercenary

By Armstrong, Stephen

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

By Frances Stonor Saunders

The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There

By Sinclair McKay

The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5

By Christopher Andrew

Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History

By Saul David

The Last Assassin

By Peter Stothard

Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors

By Amy Knight

MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations

By Stephen Dorril

Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble

By Beevor, Antony

The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake

By Roger Hermiston

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

By Max Hastings

White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa

By Susan Williams

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Monopoli Blues

By Tim Clark, Nick Cook

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

By Peter Finn, Petra Couvee

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

By Giles Milton

Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922

By Eunan O'Halpin (Bank of Ireland Chair of Contemporary Irish History, Bank of Ireland Chair of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College, Dublin)

The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021

By Sophy Roberts

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

By Keith Jeffery

Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History

By Catherine Merridale

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

By Sonia Purnell

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

By Damien Lewis

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

By David Talbot

World War I

By HP Willmott

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton

Undertones of War (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Blunden, Edmund, Strachan, Hew

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy

By Ben Macintyre