Military History of Military Intelligence & Espionage

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

The Spy Who Changed The World

By Rossiter, Mike

The Friends: Britain's Post-War Secret Service Intelligence Operations

By West, Nigel

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

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts

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 Transformation of Strategic Affairs (Adelphi series)

By Lawrence Freedman

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

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

By Ben Macintyre

Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe

By Kathy Peiss (Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania)

The Mystery of Olga Chekhova: A Life Torn Apart By Revolution And War

By Beevor, Antony

Agent Zigzag

By Ben Macintyre

Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II

By Ben Macintyre

Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City

By Catharine Arnold

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton

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

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

Undertones of War (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Blunden, Edmund, Strachan, Hew

Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park

By Jerry Roberts, Paddy O'Connell