This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends A True Story
Nicole Perlroth
2021 · 2022 edition
528 pages
The most popular intelligence & espionage books
Intelligence and espionage books tell the true stories of spies and secret services. Double agents, code-breakers, covert operations and famous betrayals are reconstructed from archives and interviews. If you enjoy spy novels, the real history is often stranger and just as gripping.
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First Man In Leading from the Front
Ant Middleton
Published 2018
320 pages
Rise and Kill First The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Ronen Bergman
Published 2018
784 pages
The Great Game
Peter Hopkirk
Published 1990
576 pages
Killing the SS The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
2018 · 2025 edition
320 pages
The First Conspiracy The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
2018 · 2019 edition
413 pages
The Volunteer The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
Jack Fairweather
2019 · 2020 edition
528 pages
The Devil's Chessboard Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
David Talbot
2015 · 2016 edition
686 pages
Horse Soldiers The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
Doug Stanton
2005 · 2009 edition
393 pages
Countdown to Zero Day Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Kim Zetter
Published 2014
433 pages
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Giles Milton
2016 · 2017 edition
356 pages
Mossad
Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
2012 · 2015 edition
429 pages
Blind Man's Bluff
Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew
1998 · 1999 edition
544 pages
The Operator Firing the Shots that Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
Robert O'Neill
2017 · 2018 edition
368 pages
Area 51 An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Annie Jacobsen
Published 2011
523 pages
D-Day Girls The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
Sarah Rose
Published 2019
400 pages
Russian Roulette
Michael Isikoff, David Corn
Published 2018
352 pages
Sea Stories
Admiral William H. McRaven
Published 2019
496 pages
Failed States The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Noam Chomsky
2006 · 2024 edition
320 pages
Extraterrestrial The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Avi Loeb
2021 · 2022 edition
222 pages
Zero Fail The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
Carol Leonnig
Published 2021
560 pages
Operation Paperclip The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Annie Jacobsen
2013 · 2014 edition
592 pages
Dirty Wars The World is a Battlefield
Jeremy Scahill
2013 · 2014 edition
642 pages
Service A Navy SEAL at War
Marcus Luttrell, James D. Hornfischer
2012 · 2014 edition
416 pages