17 must-read history books like The Bedbug: Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy (Dialogue Espionage Classics) by Peter Day

Cover of The Bedbug: Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy (Dialogue Espionage Classics) by Peter Day

The Bedbug: Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy (Dialogue Espionage Classics)

By: Peter Day

3.51

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Klop Ustinov was Britain's most ingenious spy - but he was never licensed to kill. Instead, he was …

If you liked the history plot in The Bedbug: Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy (Dialogue Espionage Classics) by Peter Day , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Soviet Russia by None, Paul Henry Dukes

1. Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Soviet Russia

By: None , Paul Henry Dukes

4.39

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary true life espionage classic and a fascinating document of the horror and excesses … read more

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  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • adventure
  • historical
  • spy thriller
  • suspense
  • thriller
Cover of Their Trade is Treachery by Chapman Pincher

2. Their Trade is Treachery

By: Chapman Pincher

3.79

Format: 861 pages, Paperback

RUSSIA'S PENETRATION OF THE FREE WORLDS DEFENCES In this extraordinary volume, first published i… read more

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  • espionage
  • historical
  • history
Cover of The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine by Robert Conquest

3. The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine

By: Robert Conquest

4.23

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

The Harvest of Sorrowis the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the… read more

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  • russia
  • history
Cover of The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes

4. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

By: Orlando Figes

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of A People's Tragedyand Natasha's Dance, a landmark account of what … read more

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  • historical
  • russia
  • history
Cover of Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire by Peter Hopkirk

5. Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire

By: Peter Hopkirk

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

A GRIPPING STORY OF IMPERIAL AMBITION, SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE, AND THE KAISER'S OWN JIHAD. An accl… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • historical
  • suspense
  • thriller
Cover of 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

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,

When it was first published in 1932, "Memoirs of a British Agent" achieved bestseller status both i… read more

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  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • historical
  • suspense
  • thriller
Cover of Greenmantle (Richard Hannay #2) by John Buchan

7. Greenmantle (Richard Hannay #2)

By: John Buchan

4.09

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a top secret mission to investigate a plot to … read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • adventure
Cover of Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet by Peter Hopkirk

8. Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet

By: Peter Hopkirk

3.71

Format: 192 pages,

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  • espionage
  • history
  • adventure
Cover of The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin by Cioma Schönhaus, Alan Bance, Marion Neiss

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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  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
Cover of Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk

10. Foreign Devils on the Silk Road

By: Peter Hopkirk

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

s/t: The Search for the Lost Cities & Treasures of Chinese Central Asia The Silk Road, which linked… read more

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  • history
  • adventure
Cover of The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Robert  Stone

11. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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12. The Man Who Never Was

By: Ewen Montagu , None

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

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13. 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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14. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

By: Denise Kiernan

3.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial r… 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

The British government's efforts to block publication of Peter Wright's Spycatcher: Candid Autobiog… read more

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16. The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin

By: None , None

4.15

Format: None pages,

Born into a family of nomadic Kazakh herdsmen in 1922, Mukhamet Shayakhmetov's father was imprisone… read more

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17. Operation Kronstadt: The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain's Greatest Spy, The Man with a Hundred Faces

By: None

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Hardcover

Part Blackhawk Down, part The Riddle of the Sands, former MI6 officer Harry Ferguson has written an… read more

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Cover of Go Spy the Land by George Alexander Hill

18. Go Spy the Land

By: George Alexander Hill

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The latest in Biteback's best-selling Dialogue Espionage Classics series of rediscovered spy master… read more

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  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • adventure
  • historical
  • spy thriller
  • suspense
  • thriller
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19. The Roads Chosen

By: Ben Carlyle

4.12

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the author’s own unnerving experiences during decades spent in the former Soviet Union.… read more

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  • espionage
  • russia
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20. 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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21. Inside Intelligence

By: Anthony Cavendish

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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  • espionage
Cover of 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

22. 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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  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
Cover of The Story Of "St 25" - Adventure And Romance In The Secret Intelligence Service In Red Russia by Paul Dukes

23. The Story Of "St 25" - Adventure And Romance In The Secret Intelligence Service In Red Russia

By: Paul Dukes

4.82

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • history
  • spy thriller
  • suspense
  • thriller
Cover of Too Secret Too Long by Chapman Pincher

24. Too Secret Too Long

By: Chapman Pincher

4.01

Format: 623 pages, Kindle Edition

Chapman Pincher, the Cold War and the spy scandals which shocked the nation. Chapman Pincher, the … read more

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  • espionage
  • historical
  • history
Cover of The Bedbug: Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy (Dialogue Espionage Classics) by Peter Day

25. The Bedbug: Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy (Dialogue Espionage Classics)

By: Peter Day

3.51

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Klop Ustinov was Britain's most ingenious spy - but he was never licensed to kill. Instead, he was … read more

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  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • adventure
  • historical
  • spy thriller
  • suspense
  • world war ii
  • thriller
Cover of A House For Spies: SIS Operations into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse by Edward Wake-Walker

26. A House For Spies: SIS Operations into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse

By: Edward Wake-Walker

4.20

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

An unforgettable history of French intelligence agents and courageous British pilots who risked eve… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
Cover of The Illegal: The Hunt for a Russian Spy in Post-War London by Gordon Corera

27. The Illegal: The Hunt for a Russian Spy in Post-War London

By: Gordon Corera

3.87

Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition

Gordon Lonsdale arrived in London in 1955. A successful Canadian businessman and lover of the high … read more

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  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
Cover of Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of IK8 of the British Secret Service (Dialogue Espionage Classics) by George Alexander Hill

28. Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of IK8 of the British Secret Service (Dialogue Espionage Classics)

By: George Alexander Hill

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Before espionage entered the era of modern technology, there was the age of George Alexander a tim… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • adventure
  • historical
  • spy thriller
  • suspense
  • thriller
Cover of Their Chosen Way (The Roads Chosen Book 3) by Ben Carlyle

29. Their Chosen Way (The Roads Chosen Book 3)

By: Ben Carlyle

4.26

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

The final episode of the trilogy depicting ‘Sam Mitchell’s war with Russian organised crime’ is aga… read more

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Cover of Resistance Heroines in Nazi & Russian Occupied Austria: Anschluss and After by Tim Heath

30. Resistance Heroines in Nazi & Russian Occupied Austria: Anschluss and After

By: Tim Heath

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The dazzling and brave story of Herti Bryan’s experiences of supporting British prisoners of war du… read more

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31. Putin's Asymmetric Assault on Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications for U.S. National Security

By: Christopher Sampson

3.42

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

The official U.S. government report on Russian interference in democracy around the world! Most Am… read more

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9 Best adventure books like The Bedbug: Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy (Dialogue Espionage Classics) by Peter Day

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Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Soviet Russia

None , Paul Henry Dukes

4.39

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Greenmantle (Richard Hannay #2)

John Buchan

4.09

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Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet

Peter Hopkirk

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Foreign Devils on the Silk Road

Peter Hopkirk

4.00

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11 best-selling history books like Too Secret Too Long by Chapman Pincher

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The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Anonymous , E.A. Wallis Budge

3.86

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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

Orlando Figes

4.81

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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

R.H. Bruce Lockhart

3.95

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