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  • HITLER'S NEST OF VIPERS
    NIGEL WEST
    "...presents an excellent and concise narrative of the Abwehr's global intelligence network. West draws from hundreds of firsthand debriefing and summary reports including disclosed sources not previously available to scholars."—American Intelligence Journal Modern historians have consistently condemned the Abwehr, Germany's military intelligence service, and its SS equivalent,...

    $251.00

  • HITLER'S NEST OF VIPERS
    NIGEL WEST
    "...presents an excellent and concise narrative of the Abwehr's global intelligence network. West draws from hundreds of firsthand debriefing and summary reports including disclosed sources not previously available to scholars."—American Intelligence Journal Modern historians have consistently condemned the Abwehr, Germany’s military intelligence service, and its SS equivalent,...

    $216.99

  • SPIES WHO CHANGED HISTORY
    NIGEL WEST
    Spies have made an extraordinary impact on the history of the 20th Century, but fourteen in particular can be said to have been demonstrably important. As one might expect, few are household names, and it is only with the benefit of recently declassified files that we can now fully appreciate the nature of their contribution. The criteria for selection have been the degree to w...

    $229.00

  • SPIES WHO CHANGED HISTORY
    NIGEL WEST
    Spies have made an extraordinary impact on the history of the 20th Century, but fourteen in particular can be said to have been demonstrably important. As one might expect, few are household names, and it is only with the benefit of recently declassified files that we can now fully appreciate the nature of their contribution. The criteria for selection have been the degree to w...

    $216.99

  • THE GUY LIDDELL DIARIES, VOLUME I: 1939-1942
    NIGEL WEST
    This is the first volume of Nigel West's acclaimed presentation of these fascinating diaries from the heart of Britain's Second World War intelligence operations. 'No intelligence buff can be without this volume and anyone interested in British twentieth century history needs it too.' M.R.D. Foot, The Spectator 'Regarded by historians as the most important military intelligence...

    $1,160.00

  • MASK
    NIGEL WEST
    MI5’s dramatic interception of secret signals to Moscow from a hidden base in Wimbledon uncovered the true extent of Soviet espionage in Britain. Intelligence expert Nigel West reveals how MASK, the codename for one of the most secretive sources ever run by British intelligence, enabled Stanley Baldwin and his cabinet to monitor the activities of the Communist Party of Great Br...

    $1,460.00

  • THE GUY LIDDELL DIARIES VOL.II: 1942-1945
    WEST, NIGEL
    WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service’s most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5’s Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was considered so highly classified that it was retained in the safe of successive Directors-General, and special permission was ...

    $1,160.00

  • AT HER MAJESTYS SECRET SERVICE
    NIGEL WEST
    In August 1909, a kindly, balding, figure named Mansfield Smith-Cumming was summoned to London by Admiral Alexander Bethell, Director of Naval Intelligence. He was to assume the inaugural position of Chief – more famously known as ‘C – of what has become ...

    $229.00

  • COLD WAR COUNTERFEIT SPIES
    NIGEL WEST
    The Cold War, with its air of mutual fear and distrust and the shadowy world of spies and secret agents, gave publishers the chance to produce countless stories of espionage, treachery and deception. What Nigel West has discovered is that the most egregious deceptions were in fact the stories themselves. In this remarkable investigation into the claims of many who portrayed the...

    $279.00

  • COLD WAR COUNTERFEIT SPIES
    NIGEL WEST
    The Cold War, with its air of mutual fear and distrust and the shadowy world of spies and secret agents, gave publishers the chance to produce countless stories of espionage, treachery and deception. What Nigel West has discovered is that the most egregious deceptions were in fact the stories themselves. In this remarkable investigation into the claims of many who portrayed the...

    $279.00

  • ASSASSINATIONS ANTHOLOGY
    ADRIAN GILBERT / NIGEL WEST / DAN MILLS / PETER G. TSOURAS / ANDY SAUNDERS
    A fascinating look at what might have happened had historical assassination attempts succeeded.   If Hitler had died at any stage in the Second World War, would Germany have immediately sued for peace, or would the generals have taken over and fought a far more practical war than the obdurate Führer? Equally intriguing is the possible failed assassination attempt on General de ...

    $229.00

  • COLD WAR SPYMASTER
    NIGEL WEST
    The postwar era as seen by a master of counterespionage—with an insight into his professional downfall.   Guy Liddell was the director of MI5’s counterespionage B Division throughout the Second World War, during which he wrote a confidential personal diary, detailing virtually every important event with intelligence significance. Those recently declassified diaries, which were ...

    $229.00

  • SECRET WAR
    NIGEL WEST
    The author of The Kompromat Conspiracy reveals the truth behind Great Britain’s secret World War II group.   What did SOE really achieve during the Second World War? Why were so many agents parachuted into enemy hands? Who chose to back Communist guerrillas in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Greece and Malaya in preference to other anti-Axis movements? In this newly revi...

    $229.00

  • MI5: BRITISH SECURITY SERVICE OPERATIONS, 1909–1945
    NIGEL WEST
    The author of The Kompromat Conspiracy shares the history of MI5, from its beginnings in 1909 to 1945 and its role in the Second World War.   MI5 is arguably the most secret and misunderstood of all the British government departments. Its enigmatic title—much more than its proper name, the Security Service—stands in the public mind for the dark world of the secret services. In ...

    $229.00

  • MI6: BRITISH SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE OPERATIONS, 1909–1945
    NIGEL WEST
    The author of GCHG describes covert missions that “are worthy of spy fiction, but the entire book is utterly fascinating and informative. Brilliant!” (Books Monthly) Written by the renowned expert Nigel West, this book exposes the operations of Britain’s overseas intelligence-gathering organization, the famed Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, and traces its origins back to its ...

    $229.00

  • GCHQ
    NIGEL WEST
    The go-to intelligence expert and author of MI6 has “provided the clearest review of GCHQ and its predecessors in a publicly available book” (Firetrench). Signal intelligence is the most secret, and most misunderstood, weapon in the modern espionage arsenal. As a reliable source of information, it is unequalled, which is why Government Communications Headquarters, almost univer...

    $229.00

  • CHINA'S SPIES
    NIGEL WEST
    “China’s Spies is a necessary alarm for those who still nurse delusions of a rosy partnership with a benign rising power.”– The NYMAS Review While many of President Xia Jinping’s increasingly aggressive foreign policies, manifested by expansion into the South China Sea, trade confrontation with Australia, and political suppression in Hong Kong, have become obvious, there has be...

    $215.99

  • HITLER'S TROJAN HORSE
    NIGEL WEST
    "Nigel West has presented the most complete account of the Abwehr to date. It will serve as a valuable reference work." — Studies in Intelligence As the Second World War progressed and defeat for Hitler’s Third Reich in all theatres became ever more certain, the tight Abwehr network, built so effectively by its head, Admiral Canaris, began to unravel. High-level defections to t...

    $242.99