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The selected documents in this volume, translated and analysed by the editors, offer a revealing insight into the attitudes, prejudices and fears of the KGB during what were to prove its declining years.

The selected documents in this volume, translated and analysed by the editors, offer a revealing insight into the attitudes, prejudices and fears of the KGB during what were to prove its declining years.

The essays in this volume assess the influence of intelligence on the Second World War and open up a number of other important areas for research. Studies of the growth of the imperial intellignece network cast new light on subjects ranging from Canadian surveillance of Vancouver Sikhs to signals intelligence in the Middle East. Studies of Japanese intelligence indicate the significance of Asian intelligence systems as a factor in modern inter...

Dalla Rivoluzione d'Ottobre a Corbaciov: la storia di una nazione, di un movimento e di un'idea che cercarono di vincere la loro battaglia anche con il contributo del più potente servizio segreto del XX secolo. La storia del KCB viene qui dettagliatamente ricostruita da due autori d'eccezione: Christopher Andrew, tra i più autorevoli esperti di intelligence mondiale, e Oleg Cordievskij, ex agente del KCB e poi collaboratore del MI6 britannico,...

As chief archivist of the KGB's foreign branch, Vasili Mitrokhin had virtually unfettered access to its most closely held secrets. But his government's relentless repression of dissidents at home and abroad and its bungled Afghan war policy disillusioned him. Determined to preserve the truth, Mitrokhin secretly compiled a detailed record of the feared agency's operations abroad. Written with historian Christopher Andrew and backed with meticul...

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This edited volume offers a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of interrogation and questioning in war and conflict in the twentieth century. Despite the current public interest and its military importance, interrogation and questioning in conflict is still a largely under-researched theme. This volume's methodological thrust is to select historical case studies ranging in time from the Great War to the conflicts in former Yugoslavia, ...

A thorough and revealing examination of how American presidents from Washington to Bush have used or misused secret intelligence--by the coauthor of the highly acclaimed KGB: The Inside Story.

In this epic volume, renowned photographer Marc Hoberman presents London in a way never seen before! Through a visual journey of over 280 large-scale color photographs, London and its surrounds is showcased as it really is: towering landmarks fill the book's pages, below them London's life-blood - it's people - satiate the city's streets. Beefeaters, Camden Town punks, bobby's-on-the-beat, they're all here but so are the 'everyday' Londoners t...

A dramatic theatre script, concise and captivating, by Christopher Andrew O'Dwyer. Max, a young man of nineteen has a thriving career as an escort. However Jerry, thirty-five, a single man and client, not looking for any sexual gain from Max, starts to pay for conversations. It's from these discussions that such an unlikely friendship flourished, but for them to achieve such a strong bond, they had to collide and entangle themselves in each ot...

The second edition of Secret Intelligence: A Reader brings together key essays from the field of intelligence studies, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and ongoing debates about the future of intelligence.

Eternal Vigilance? seeks to offer reinterpretations of some of the major established themes in CIA history such as its origins, foundations, its treatment of the Soviet threat, the Iranian revolution and the accountability of the agency. The book also opens new areas of research such as foreign liaison, relations with the scientific community, use of scientific and technical research and economic intelligence. The articles are both by well-kno...

To mark its centenary, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in 20th-century British history, from its foundation in 1909 to its present roles in counterespionage and counterterrorism.

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Based on an unprecedented, secret archive of intelligence, The Sword and the Shield presents by far the most complete picture we have ever had of the KGB, revealing for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network.

Based on an unprecedented, secret archive of intelligence, The Sword and the Shield presents by far the most complete picture we have ever had of the KGB, revealing for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network.

Ace historian Christopher Andrew delivers what may well be the intelligence book of the century. Including smuggled files from the foreign intelligence archives of the KGB, this treasure trove proves that there was indeed an enemy--and that he was very much in our midst. 40 halftones.

During the decade that culminated in the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, an avalanche of top secret documents poured out from KGB headquarters in Moscow to its residencies throughout the world. Oleg Gordievsky was a KGB colonel and Resident-designate in London in 1985 when he defected, it was later revealed that he had been working as a double agent for British intelligence since 1974, regularly risking his life by passing copies of KGB do...