Discover the history of the world's greatest spy agencies, and the operations you've never heard of... until now.
HISTORY WAR SPIES & SECRET WARS
History Of War Book of Spies & Secret Wars
ORIGINS OF ESPIONAGE • From military reconnaissance to keeping a close eye on citizens, secret agents have been spying for thousands of years
WORKING IN THE SHADOWS • Covert and controversial, the Central Intelligence Agency actively engages in espionage activities to protect the interests of the United States
FATHER OF THE CIA
WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A CIA AGENT?
THE CIA’S MOST ICONIC MISSIONS
THE SWORD AND SHIELD REVISITED • Operating in the shadows of the Cold War, the Soviet KGB grew to become the largest state security service in the world
THE RED IN YOUR BED
ACTIVE MEASURES • POLITICIAL OPPONENTS THAT ENDED UP IN THE SIGHTS OF T’HE LONG SWORD’
VLADIMIR PUTIN - THE ETERNAL CHEKIST
FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY • For a century Britain’s secret service has tackled its government’s enemies in a clandestine conflict waged by an army of spies…
MI6 VERSUS JAMES BOND • THE REAL-LIFE INSPIRATIONS BEHIND IAN FLEMING’S FAMOUS FICTIONAL SPY AND THE STORIES THAT SPARKED A BOOK AND FILM FRANCHISE
MI6’S MOST AMAZING MISSIONS • THE SECRET ASSIGNMENTS THAT PREVENTED NUCLEAR BOMBS AND TRACKED DOWN DICTATORS
MI6’S SPY HEADQUARTERS • SINCE 1994, MI6 HAS OPERATED FROM THE PURPOSE-BUILT SIS BUILDING AT VAUXHALL CROSS
SPIES OF THE WORLD • The CIA and MI6 are only two of the most powerful intelligence organisations…
HIDDEN WARS EXPOSED • From the CIA-backed invasion of Revolutionary Cuba to the British collusion to draw the United States into WWII, these are the uncensored stories of the world’s clandestine conflicts
10 SECRET MISSIONS OF WORLD WAR II • Espionage and sabotage that changed the course of the war
Enigma HOW BRITAIN’S CODEBREAKERS TURNED THE TIDE IN WWII • Discover how the men and women of Bletchley Park cracked the ‘unbreakable’ German Enigma and helped defeat Hitler’s Nazis
GLOSSARY
THE ‘UNBREAKABLE’ ENIGMA • DISCOVER THE MAIN DEVICES ON THE COMPLICATED AND PORTABLE GERMAN COMMUNICATION MACHINE
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR’S CODEMAKERS AND BREAKERS
STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO CODEBREAKING • FOLLOW OUR SIX-POINT GUIDE TO CRACK CODES LIKE THEY DID IN BLETCHLEY PARK
EYEWITNESS JEAN VALENTINE • THE FORMER MEMBER OF THE WOMEN’S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE SERVED AT BLETCHLEY
MAP OF BLETCHLEY PARK
CHURCHILL’S GOLDEN GEESE • THE BRITISH PM WAS ONE OF BLETCHLEY PARK’S BIGGEST SUPPORTERS
BLETCHLEY’S THREE GREATEST SUCCESSES • THE CODE-BREAKING CENTRE’S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS
THE BIRTH OF THE SAS • In the wasteland of North Africa, Britain’s Long Range Desert Group took the fight to the Axis forces alongside a fledgling special forces unit
AT WAR WITH BAGNOLD • IN JANUARY 1941 BAGNOLD RECRUITED HIS FIRST EIGHT MEMBERS INTO THE NEWLYFORMED YEOMANRY ‘Y’ PATROL, NICKNAMING THEM HIS ‘BLUE-EYED BOYS’, BECAUSE THEY WERE THE CREAM OF THE CROP
EQUIPMENT OF THE LRDG • GIVEN JUST SIX WEEKS TO RAISE HIS UNIT, BAGNOLD ASSEMBLED A FLEET OF VEHICLES AS WELL AS MAPS, RATIONS, COMPASSES, WEAPONS AND WIRELESSES
DARK SECRETS OF THE REAL FRENCH RESISTANCE • Under the oppression of Nazi occupation and the Vichy state, the fight for France was taken up by Frenchmen, women and foreigners alike
FORGOTTEN HEROES OF THE RESISTANCE • WHILE DE GAULLE WAS ACROSS THE CHANNEL IN THE SAFETY OF LONDON, THESE COURAGEOUS INDIVIDUALS WERE SLUGGING IT OUT AGAINST THE WAFFEN SS ON THE STREETS OF FRANCE
THE MILICE: THE ANTI-RESISTANCE • A SELECT FEW WHO TOOK UP...
