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 …
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1. The Riddle of the Sands
By: Erskine Childers , Milton Bearden
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret Germ… read more
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2. Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A DANGEROUS NEW TWIST IN THE GREAT GAME In this gripping narrative Peter Hopkirk tells how Lenin an… read more
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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.71
Format: 192 pages,
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7. On Horseback Through Asia Minor
By: Peter Hopkirk , Frederick Burnaby
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In the savage winter of 1876 Captain Frederick Burnaby rode 1,000 miles eastwards from Constantinop… read more
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8. 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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10. The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History
By: David A. Vise
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Called "a first-rate spy story" (Entertainment Weekly), The Bureau and the Mole is the sensational … read more
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11. 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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12. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more
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13. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
By: Catherine Belton
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more
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14. Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
By: Helena Merriman
4.51
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross
By: Albrecht Wacker
4.20
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of t… read more
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18. 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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19. Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation
By: Steve Vogel
4.28
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of… read more
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20. The Last Nazi (Joe Johnson #1)
By: Andrew Turpin
4.00
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
The buried contents of a Nazi train. An aging SS mass-murderer. And the wartime secrets of a U.S. p… read more
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21. Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror
By: John Sweeney
4.24
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, e… read more
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22. 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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23. 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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24. Security and Special Operations: SOE and MI5 During the Second World War
By: Christopher J. Murphy
4.38
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
This volume offers the first comprehensive history of the Security Section of the Special Operation… read more
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25. 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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26. Iron Spy: The True Story of the Greatest Double Agent in World War II (Espionage)
By: Ethan Quinn
3.81
Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition
Known as Fritz to his German spy-handlers and Zig-Zag to the British secret service, Eddie Chapman … read more
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27. Bandit Country (Joe Johnson #3)
By: Andrew Turpin
4.33
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
Serial sniper . . . Joe Johnson finds himself in the crosshairs of a Northern Ireland gunman who is… read more
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28. Israeli Mossad: Operation Orchard Israel's Strike On The Syrian Reactor (Mossad Operations: From Orchard to Mabhouh to Iran's Nuclear Program Book 1)
By: Dan Magen
3.86
Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition
Operation Orchard was an alleged risky airstrike conducted by Israel on a suspected nuclear reactor… read more
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29. GCHQ: Centenary Edition
By: Richard Aldrich
4.40
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
FULLY UPDATED CENTENARY EDITION ‘An important book’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times ‘An intrigui… read more
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30. The Opium Wars: A History From Beginning to End (History of China)
By: Hourly History
4.10
Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition
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31. 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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