SOE Manual : How to be an Agent in Occupied Europe
The actual course given to all secret agents in SOE before working behind enemy lines. It includes everything you needed to know to go undercover - from documents, cov...
MI6 : The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949
A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organization in the world. Essential reading for...
For two and a half years during the Second World War, Wanborough Manor, a country house near Guildford, was a training school for a secret organisation, the Special Operations...
Defence Of The Realm : The Authorised History of MI5
To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent historian. The Defence of the Realm, the book wh...
Very Special Agent Fifi was described as 'one of the most expert liars in the world'. Employed by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), Churchill's wartime spook organisation...
This is the official story that has inspired the British film, The Imitation Game, a nail-biting race against time following Alan Turing the pioneer of modern-day computing and credited with crack...
Between Silk And Cyanide : A Code Maker's War 1941-45
In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 charing cross road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a cryp...
This is beautifully slipcased presented collector's edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place...
'Crib's For Victory' is a posthumous account of the secret code-breaking process in Bletchley Park's Fusion Room during the Second World War by Major Neil Webster, one of the key members of ...
Chancers : Scandal, Blackmail, and the Enigma Code
Monty Newton and Rodolphe Lemoine must be two of the most outrageous conmen in history. When the Rajah Sir Hari Singh of Kashmir came to London in 1919, his first time ...
Churchill's Spy Files : MI5's Top Secret Wartime Reporters
THE SECOND WORLD WAR saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a truly global conflict on an...
Codebreakers and Spies tells the astonishing story of how Britain's intelligence operatives, experts and special operations teams contributed to the Allies' victory in the Second World War. The wo...
Codeword Overlord : Axis Espionage and the D-Day Landings
IT was inevitable that the Allies would invade France in the summer of 1944: the Nazis just had to figure out where and when. This job fell to the Abwehr and sev...
The highly eccentric Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known simply as 'Dilly', was one of the leading figures in the British codebreaking successes of the two world wars. During the first, he was t...
Enigma : How Breaking the Code Helped Win World War II
Enigma tells the story of Bletchley's impact on the war, including the outwitting of U-boat threat in the Battle of the Atlantic; helping the Allies to victory in t...