Books in the Espionage series

Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park

In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war.

A revealing new biography of SOE operative Odette Sansom, first female winner of the GC

Communicating in the chaos of war is complicated, but vital. Signals intelligence makes it possible. For the first time, the secret history of global signals intelligence in the World Wars is revealed.

The greatest French Resistance disaster of the Second World War told in its entirety for the first time.

'The bravest of us all' - Violette Szabo is probably the most famous female agent of the legendary SOE in the Second World War. Her extraordinary story is told here by her daughter

Trained by his NKVD - a predecessor of the KGB - officers of the Polish UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVO, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS, Albania's Sigurimi and the Stasi of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) spied on and ruthlessly repressed their fellow citizens on the Soviet model.