The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage
By: John Hughes-Wilson Colonel
3.67
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
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By: Robert Greene
4.26
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
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2. Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Soviet Russia
By: None , Paul Henry Dukes
4.39
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
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3. The Riddle of the Sands
By: Erskine Childers , Milton Bearden
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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4. Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
By: William Stevenson
3.61
Format: 160 pages,
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5. Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
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6. Memoirs Of A British Agent: Being An Account Of The Author's Early Life In Many Lands And Of His Official Mission To Moscow In 1918
By: R.H. Bruce Lockhart
3.95
Format: 254 pages,
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7. Smiley's People
By: John Le Carré
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
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8. Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
By: Iain M. Banks
3.30
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, one of the most horrific. Despera… read more
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9. The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin
By: Cioma Schönhaus , Alan Bance , Marion Neiss
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
In Nazi Germany, 20-year-old graphic artist Cioma Schonhaus found a unique outlet for his talent: h… read more
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10. Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
By: Peter Hopkirk
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. The State of the Art (Culture, #4)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
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12. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By: Ben Macintyre
4.25
Format: 127 pages,
In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more
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13. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
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14. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more
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15. Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
By: None
4.62
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
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16. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
By: Ben Macintyre
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
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17. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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18. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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19. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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20. Go Spy the Land
By: George Alexander Hill
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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21. The Roads Chosen
By: Ben Carlyle
4.12
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
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22. A Chosen Path
By: Ben Carlyle
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rebecca’s father, Edward, scoots Sam Mitchell from Bangkok to London. Boris Voikevich, only days… read more
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23. Inside Intelligence
By: Anthony Cavendish
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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24. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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25. The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two
By: Sarah Baring
4.00
Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1938, Sarah Baring was enjoying life as a young debutante. Only a few years later, at the height… read more
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26. The Moth and the Mountain
By: Ed Caesar
3.79
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary true story about one man’s attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own sou… read more
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27. The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage
By: John Hughes-Wilson Colonel
3.67
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
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28. Security and Special Operations: SOE and MI5 During the Second World War
By: Christopher J. Murphy
4.38
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
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29. The Greatest Raid of All: Operation Chariot and the Mission to Destroy the Normandie Dock at St Nazaire (Daring Military Operations of World War Two)
By: C.E. Lucas Phillips
4.30
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30. Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life of George Alexander Hill
By: Peter Day
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
George Hill was a British spy who had befriended Trotsky during the Russian Revolution. He had smug… read more
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31. Their Chosen Way (The Roads Chosen Book 3)
By: Ben Carlyle
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