Hitler's Intelligence Chief is a biographical portrait of SS General Walter Schellenberg during the final months of the Third Reich as he accompanied Heinrich Himmler while attempting to save his own life. Schellenberg was part of the Nazi leadership, although he never was directly involve...

Nigel West has studied the recently revealed documents about Soviet espionage against the Western Allies during and after World War II and has for the first time painted the complete picture of how the Soviet Union stole the secrets of the atomic bomb. The investigations by the British, Canadian,...

New York Harbor was vulnerable, and one could imagine that an attack would come from the sea. Weeks before the Pearl Harbor attack, New York City is attacked in 1941. A daring operation, long planned by Mussolini's frogmen, successfully infiltrated the Mafia on the waterfront in a daring operatio...

When Allah made Hell, runs the Arab proverb, he did not find it bad enough, so he made Mesopotamia—and added flies. What was a British Army doing in this Godforsaken place and how had it all come about?

A.J. Barker’s masterful retelling of the story of Britain’s fi...

In the dead of the winter of 1940, Hitler decided to return from its burial place in Vienna the ashes of Napoleon II, known as the "Aiglon," the only son of the emperor Napoleon. The gesture was intended to win the support of the French people, but only managed to precipitate a political crisis a...

Brezhnev died in 1982, and in 2001 terrorists bombed New York and Washington. In between, in 1991, a great empire collapsed. All those events fit into our slice of time, exactly twenty years, like vodka bottles in a crate.

In the course of a series of conversations, the authors revis...

The cold war officially lasted from 1945 to 1991; however, many operations and individual spies often are found beyond these dates, with some previously unknown operations and names having surfaced only recently. Based on all the latest research, the core part of the book consists of over 330 ind...

"I beat the Russians every time," said Napoleon, "but that doesn't get me anywhere."

Armand de Caulaincourt was one of the highest officials in the French Empire, constantly riding at Napoleon's side. His memoirs are hailed as the most accurate and best written eyewitness account of Napoleo...