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Spooks 1945-2009

by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas
PO Box 500, London W2’; the nondescript address from behind which one of the world’s most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britain’s Security Service.
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Spy Who Loved

by Clare Mulley
The first woman to work as a British secret agent during the Second World War Krystyna Skarbek (aka Christine Granville) survived great danger only to be murdered in a seedy hotel in 1952
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The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5

by Christopher Andrew
To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent historian.
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The Man Who was George Smiley

by Michael Jago
Michael Jago's brilliant account of Bingham's life is not just the story of a perfect spy, it is also of a writer whose thrillers transcended the genre, exploring the emotions behind the darkest human behaviour.
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The Real Enigma Heroes

by Phil Shenahan
Phil Shanahan tells the extraordinary story of the three men who saved countless Allied lives and shortened the war by a year, as well as the efforts to recognise their bravery.
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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park

by Sinclair McKay
The first history for the general reader of life at Bletchley Park, and an amazing compendium of memories from people who were there.
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The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010

by Peter Hennessy
This updated edition of The Secret State revises Hennessy's picture of the Soviet threat that was presented to ministers from the last days of the Second World War to the 1960s.
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The Secret War in Italy

by William Fowler
Fascinating account of secret operations on the Italian front in World War II.
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The Secrets of Station X

by Michael Smith
Michael Smith constructs his absorbing narrative around the reminiscences of those who worked and played at Bletchley Park, and their stories add a very human colour to their cerebral activity.
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The War That Never Was

by Hart-Davis, Duff
As discussed on Radio Four's Today programme this tells the story of a secret war fought by British mercenaries in the Yemen in the early 1960s.
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