Books in the Studies in Intelligence series

This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers.

This book explores the challenges leaders in intelligence communities face in an increasingly complex security environment and how to develop future leaders to deal with these issues.

This book examines India's foreign intelligence culture and strategic surprises in the 20th century.

This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis.

This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers.

This book examines intelligence analysis in the digital age and demonstrates how intelligence has entered a new era.

This book reappraises the ill-fated raid named operation Jubilee, focusing on aspects such as naval and air operations in the Channel, signals, radar intelligence, agents and deception.

This is the first scholarly work to focus purely on British military intelligence operations during the Crimean War.

This book brings to light many aspects of the Tet offensive of 1968, an event acknowledged as the turning-point of the Vietnam War.

This is an account of the British intelligence operations based in both India and London, which defended the Indian Empire against subversion during the first two decades of the 20th century.

Describing British wartime success in breaking Japanese codes of dazzling variety and great complexity which contributed to the victory in Burma three months before Hiroshima, this first-hand account describes the difficulty of decoding one of the most complex languages in the world in some of the most difficult conditions.

'Nothing Sacred' is documents the Nazi espionage campaign against the Vatican in the World War II.

Covers propaganda and subversive activities engineered by the Italian government in the Mediterranean and the Middle East from 1935 until 1940, when Italy entered the war. This book assesses the nature of the challenge brought by the Fascist regime to British security and colonial interests in the region.

Provides a look at how Britain learned to engage Japan's armed forces as the Pacific War progressed. This book reveals that, prior to Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia, the British held a contemptuous view of Japanese military prowess. It shows that the situation was not helped by the high level of secrecy surrounding Japan's war planning.

"This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it"--

John Ferris is a major figure in espionage, both through his pioneering work in British intelligence and in his studies of British strategic history. This volume selects his best essays of the past 15 years.

This work is the first history of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) in the Cold War written by independent historians with full access to the archives of the service.

Documents the wartime exploits of Owen Reed, a British army officer who was recruited into the Secret Intelligence Service in 1943 and who subsequently served with Tito's partisans in German-occupied Yugoslavia.

Based on OSS records only recently released to US National Archives, and on evidence from British archival sources, this is a thoroughly researched study of the Office of Strategic Services in London.

Presents an analysis of UK-US intelligence cooperation in the post-9/11 world. Seeking to connect an analysis of intelligence liaison with the wider realm of Anglo-American Relations, this book draws on a wide range of interviews and consultations with key actors in both countries.

The East German Stasi was a communist secret service, trusted by its Russian mother organization the KGB. This work presents an examination of this secret service. It details the Communist Party's attempt to control various aspects of East German civil society. It is suitable to students of intelligence studies and German politics.

Analyzes how the Egyptian intelligence community has adapted to shifting national security threats since its inception 100 years ago.

Provides examination of the Truman Administration's decision to employ covert operations in the Cold War. This book looks at three central questions: Why were these types of operations adopted? Why were they conducted in such a haphazard manner? And, why, once it became clear that they were not working, did the administration fail to abandon them?