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The life of Dusko Popov, a Serbian playboy who eventually came to serve the Abwehr, MI5, MI6, and the FBI…
as a spy. Discusses his entanglements with espionage, murder, assassins, and lovers, as well as his role as the inspiration for the fictional James Bond. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2016The secret war: spies, ciphers, and guerrillas 1939-1945
By Max Hastings. 2016
Author of Retribution (DB 66833) and Catastrophe 1914 (DB 78009) examines the use of spycraft and guerrilla warfare during World…
War II. Discusses individual countries' intelligence programs, major personalities, technology, and specific programs considered and implemented. Considers the impact of these programs on the outcome of the war. 2016A former top Pentagon official traces how war has transitioned from being considered, typically, a temporary state of affairs between…
times of peace to a continuous state. Argues that when the boundaries around war disappear, one risks destroying the founding values of America and invites chaos. 2016A discussion of how leaders of the American Revolution united the thirteen colonies by using propaganda to link British tyranny…
to colonial prejudices and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Native Americans. 2016A chronicle of the fourteen-year manhunt and capture of Balkan war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, as well as…
the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president who became the first head of state to stand before an international tribunal for war crimes. Some violence. 2016Missing man: the American spy who vanished in Iran
By Barry Meier. 2016
In 2013, it was revealed that former FBI agent turned private investigator Robert Levinson, who had disappeared in Iran six…
years prior, had been there on a mission for the CIA and was captured. Interviews and CIA files weave together the story of Levinson's time in Iran and the efforts to rescue him. 2016The longest trail: writings on American Indian history, culture, and politics
By Alvin M. Josephy. 2015
A collection of articles, speeches, papers, essays, and book introductions and chapters, provides a look at Native American history and…
policies related to their rights in North America. The time period covered stretches from the first settlements in the East to the long trek of the Nez Perce Indians in the Northwest. 2015Near and distant neighbors: a new history of Soviet intelligence
By Jonathan Haslam. 2015
An account of Soviet intelligence services from the October Revolution to the end of the Cold War. The author examines…
Nikita Khrushchev and his successors' use of codes and ciphers, as well as the reasons they discarded ideological recruitment in favor of blackmail and bribery. 2015Masters of empire: Great Lakes Indians and the making of America
By Michael A. McDonnell. 2015
Historian profiles Native American tribes of the Great Lakes region, particularly the Anishinaabe Odawa, who populated the Straits of Mackinac…
in Michigan. Traces their history, alliances and rivalries, and prominent members, including Charles-Michel Mouet de Langlade, an active participant in the territorial wars of the 1700s. 2015Cyberphobia: identity, trust, security and the Internet
By Edward Lucas. 2015
Senior editor at the Economist examines the culture surrounding cybercrimes--crimes involving computers--in the early twenty-first century. Topics include hackers, identity…
theft, corporate and political warfare using computers, the darknet where illegal and morally questionable transactions occur, and how to understand and protect oneself against these risks in everyday life. 2015Portrait of Allen Welsh Dulles and his reign as the longest-serving director of the CIA. Utilizes government documents, intelligence sources,…
personal correspondence, journals, and exclusive interviews to characterize Dulles, his work, and his questionable behavior and tactics. Bestseller. 2015Surprise attack: from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
By Larry Hancock, Larry J Hancock. 2015
An examination of over sixty years of military and terror threats against America, as well as of the intelligence tools…
and practices that provided warnings of those attacks. Traces the evolution and application of these intelligence practices and discusses why these warnings have often failed to interdict or intercept actual attacks. 2015A life of lies and spies: tales of a CIA covert ops polygraph interrogator
By Alan B. Trabue. 2015
Memoirs from a former CIA officer, describing his work polygraphing foreign spies and his many other adventures, beginning with his…
induction to the CIA in 1971. He details many of his high-adrenaline experiences as well as humorous stories. He also discusses the CIA's use of polygraph and interrogation in validating information. 2015How to catch a Russian spy: the true story of an American civilian turned double agent
By Ellis Henican, Naveed Jamali. 2015
In 2008 the author, an average American, aided an initially reluctant FBI duo in taking down a top Russian spy…
based at the United Nations, using only what he'd learned about spying from books, films, games, and TV. In the process, he spent four years as a civilian double agent. Some strong language. 2015In the ever-changing world of espionage, the world's spymasters have begun to shun human intelligence gathering, replacing it with technical…
methods such as satellite photography and global communications interception. Journalist Stephen Grey examines how this has failed at times, however, and provides a history of favored techniques and technologies. 2015Off the radar: a father's secret, a mother's heroism, and a son's quest
By Cyrus Copeland. 2015
An American civilian, Max Copeland, was seized by the Revolutionary Guards in Iran in 1979 and charged with espionage. The…
author, Max's son, relates how his mother, Shahin, attempted to free Max, and he searches to uncover just who his father really was. Strong language. 2015A very dangerous woman: the lives, loves and lies of Russia's most seductive spy
By Jeremy Dronfield, Deborah McDonald. 2015
Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg began a passionate affair with British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart in the…
early twentieth century, even while spying on him for the Bolsheviks. The authors recount Moura's attempts to save Lockhart and her continued espionage after later fleeing to England. Some descriptions of sex. 2015Our man in Charleston: Britain's secret agent in the Civil War South
By Christopher Dickey. 2015
Journalist Christopher Dickey recounts the work of Robert Bunch, who served as British consul in Charleston in 1853. His work…
also encompassed sending intelligence to the British government and working against his neighbors' plans for a new Confederacy, even on the brink of the American Civil War. Some strong language. 2015An indigenous peoples' history of the United States (ReVisioning American history #3)
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. 2014
A history of the United States exploring the perspective of its indigenous peoples. Dunbar-Ortiz analyzes how native tribes actively resisted…
national expansion and examines the systematic destruction of the lives and cultures of the native civilizations present in North America before European colonization. Violence. 2014Editor-in-chief of Truthdig Robert Scheer discusses the widespread surveillance of the general public conducted by corporations and government agencies and…
condemns the erosion of privacy rights. He argues that the information revolution, despite its positive elements, contains the seeds of freedom's destruction in the form of a surveillance state. 2015