World Best Secret Intelligence Services - April 2024

The Secret World: A History of Intelligence (Henry L. Stimson Lectures)

The first-ever detailed, comprehensive history of intelligence, from Moses and Sun Tzu to the present day The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada.   Those who do not understand past mistakes are like... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0300238444
• ASIN: 0300238444
• ISBN: 0300238444
• Manufacturer: Yale University Press

The Hitler/Hess Deception: British Intelligence's Best-Kept Secret of the Second World War

At last, new archival discoveries reveal the truth about the German Deputy-Führer’s incredible solo flight to Britain in May 1941, and explain the British government’s sixty-year silence as to what the Hess mission was all about.On the night of 10 May 1941, in one of the most extraordinary and bizarre incidents of the Second World War, a Messerschmitt-110 crash-landed on a remote Scottish hillside. Its pilot, who had parachuted to safety, was Rudolf Hess, the Deputy-Führer of the German Reich. Hess’s remarkable solo flight was immediately dismissed in both Britain and Germany as the de... [Read More]

• ASIN: 000714119X
• ASIN: 000714119X
• ISBN: 000714119X
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, hailed by The New York Times as “an exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject.”WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN HISTORYNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JENNIFER SZALAI, THE NEW YORK TIMES NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist • The New York Times Book Review • BBC History Magazine • Mother Jones • Kirkus Reviews The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400069718
• ASIN: 1400069718
• ISBN: 1400069718
• Brand: Random House
• Manufacturer: Random House

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post).Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316352535
• ASIN: 0316352535
• ISBN: 9780316352536
• Manufacturer: Hachette Books

The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA

• ASIN: B000OVLJTQ
• ASIN: B000OVLJTQ
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect

• ASIN: B002JKVXFU
• ASIN: B002JKVXFU
• Manufacturer: Crown Forum

World Submarines: Covert Shores Recognition Guide

The essential guide to the world’s submarines, this Covert Shores recognition guide has over 80 full color profiles profile drawings of the submarines in service with the world’s navies. These include many submarines which are not widely known of, let alone covered in other books. * Original color illustrations * Silhouettes with Recognition notes * Specifications * History and descriptions * Large format, full color This book is ideal for serious submarine enthusiasts and casual readers alike. If you, or those around you, have served aboard submarines then World Submarines will prove an i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1541392302
• ASIN: 1541392302
• ISBN: 1541392302
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionLonglisted for the 2018 National Book Award for NonfictionFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in direct opposition, with I.S.I., the Pakistani intelligence agency. While the US was trying to quell extremis... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1594204586
• ASIN: 1594204586
• ISBN: 1594204586
• Brand: Penguin Press
• Manufacturer: Penguin Press

George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

*Now with a new afterword containing never-before-seen research on the identity of the spy ring’s most secret member, Agent 355“This is my kind of history book. Get ready. Here’s the action.” —BRAD MELTZER, bestselling author of The Fifth Assassin and host of DecodedWhen George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington rallied—thanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring. He realized that he couldn’t defeat the British with military might, s... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1595231102
• ASIN: 1595231102
• ISBN: 9781595231109
• Brand: WaterBrook Press
• Manufacturer: Sentinel

Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence, 3rd Edition

A thoroughly updated revision of the first comprehensive overview of intelligence designed for both the student and the general reader, Silent Warfare is an insider’s guide to a shadowy, often misunderstood world. Leading intelligence scholars Abram N. Shulsky and Gary J. Schmitt clearly explain such topics as the principles of collection, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action, and their interrelationship with policymakers and democratic values. This new edition takes account of the expanding literature in the field of intelligence and deals with the consequences for intelligence ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1574883453
• ASIN: 1574883453
• ISBN: 1574883453
• Brand: Potomac Books
• Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press

The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA

The Very Best Men is the story of the CIA's early days as told through the careers of four glamorous, daring, and idealistic men who ran covert operations for the government from the end of World War II to Vietnam. Evan Thomas re-creates the personal dramas and sometimes tragic lives of Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald, who risked everything to contain the Soviet threat.Within the inner circles of Washington, they were regarded as the best and the brightest. They planned and acted to keep the country out of war—by stealth and “political action” and to d... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00A6CSMQ6
• ASIN: B00A6CSMQ6
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Secret Pilgrim: A Novel

The acclaimed novel featuring George Smiley, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries  The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies now yield to glasnost and perestroika. The killing shadows of the Cold War are flooded with light. The future is unfathomable.    To train new spies for this uncertain future, one must show them the past. Enter the man called Ned, the loyal and shrewd veteran of the Circus. With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345504429
• ASIN: 0345504429
• ISBN: 0345504429
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy

Virginia Hall left comfortable Baltimore roots of wealth and privilege in 1931 to follow her dream of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, a job that would change her life forever. She watched as Hitler rolled into Poland, then France, and she decided to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). There she learned things her wealthy Baltimore contemporaries would never have imagined--demolitions, assassination, secret radio communications, and resistance organization. She was deployed to France where the Gestapo imprisoned, beat, and tortured spies. Some were mercifully executed w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159228762X
• ASIN: 159228762X
• ISBN: 159228762X
• Brand: Brand: Lyons Press
• Manufacturer: Lyons Press

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

• ASIN: B07DN155VV
• ASIN: B07DN155VV
• Manufacturer: Viking

The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNow a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd“A delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book ReviewMoe Berg is the only major-league baseball player whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA. For Berg was much more than a third-string catcher who played on several major league teams between 1923 and 1939. Educated at Princeton and the Sorbonne, he as reputed to speak a dozen languages (although it was also said he couldn't hit in any of them) a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679762892
• ASIN: 0679762892
• ISBN: 0679762892
• Brand: Dawidoff, Nicholas
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Kingsman: The Secret Service (Blu-ray)

Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass, X-Men First Class), Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street

• UPC: 43902855
• Model: 2298021
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 4.6

Kingsman: The Secret Service (DVD)

Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass, X-Men First Class), Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street

• UPC: 362012077

Global Intelligence : The World's Secret Services Today

9781842771136

• UPC: 28425465
• Rating: 5.0

Fighting to Lose : How the German Secret Intelligence Service Helped the Allies Win the Second World War

Newly released FBI and MI5 documents provide a fresh interpretation of key events during World War II, showing how German military intelligence, which was secretly opposed to the Nazis, aided the

• UPC: 24077534

Secrets of War - Intelligence (The Ultra Enigma, Women Spies in World War II)

Secrets of War - Intelligence (The Ultra Enigma, Women Spies in World War

• UPC: 1223488
• Color: YOther

Kingsman: The Secret Service (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital HD)

A SUPER-SECRET ORGANIZATION recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a dire global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. A phenomenal cast, including ACADEMY AWARD® Winners

• UPC: 49550119
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 5.0

Kingsman: The Secret Service (DVD)

Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass, X-Men First Class), Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street

• UPC: 43902860
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 5.0

Star Trek: The Best of Both Worlds (Blu-ray)

Details Coming Soon

• UPC: 23350783
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 5.0

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (DVD)

Agent 007 proposes to a contessa and foils SPECTRE chief Blofeld's agricultural plot. The sixth James Bond

• UPC: 46148606
• Color: YOther

The Secret World of Arrietty

Details Coming Soon

• UPC: 289422091
• Model: CINDSF18167D
• Color: YOther