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Popular History Espionage Books

  • A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
  • Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control & Medical Abuse
  • Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
  • Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
  • The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
  • The Secret History of MI6

  • A Man Called Intrepid
  • Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
  • Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
  • The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
  • The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
  • Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6

  • A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II
  • Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies
  • KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev
  • Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire
  • Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
  • The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts
  • Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
  • The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
  • The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There
  • Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
  • Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad
  • My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy