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Forgotten Voices of the Secret War

by Roderick Bailey
Drawing on the the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive and featuring a mass of previously unpublished personal testimonies, this tells the stories of SOE agents, HQ staff, diplomats, aircrew and naval personnel in their own words.
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GCHQ

by Richard Aldrich
In this ground-breaking book, Richard Aldrich traces GCHQ's evolvement from a wartime code-breaking operation staffed by eccentric crossword puzzlers, to one of the world leading espionage organisations.
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Gentleman Spymaster

by Geoffrey Elliot
This is one man’s fascinating story. It is also the story of the extraordinary contribution that Robertson and his colleagues in British counter-intelligence made through the XX or ‘Double Cross’ system.
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Graven With Diamonds

by Nicola Shulman
Courtier, spy, wit, diplomat, assassin, lover of Anne Boleyn, and favourite both of Henry and his sinister minister Thomas Cromwell, the brilliant Wyatt was admired and envied in equal measure. Here Nicola Shuman tells his story.
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Heroines of SOE

by Beryl E Escott
Tells the stories of some of the war's bravest women the SOE operatives who lived and died for their country. Inspiring and exciting these women are real role models.
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Ian Fleming & SOE's Operation Postmaster

by Brian Lett
This is a true story of a force of ‘licensed to kill’ secret agents, commanded by a real war time secret service chief code names M, with whom Ian Fleming worked, and upon whom his James Bond stories were based.
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King's Henchman

by Anthony Adolph
The King's Henchman is the story of Henry Jermyn, a story of love, family, regicide, adversity and last-minute escapes, set against the backdrop of bloody Civil War.
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Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May - September 1940

by Paul Addison & Jeremy Crang
From May to September 1940 the Ministry of Information compiled daily reports on the morale of the nation for circulation within Whitehall.
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Live & Let Spy

by Steve Gibson
The only first-hand account of BRIXMIS - the British Army's most secret unit of the Cold War. Written by the Tour Officer of BRIXMIS as it conducted its last mission before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Major Ferran's Hat

by David Cesarani
The gripping true story of the murder, in Palestine in 1947, of a Jewish activist by a British counter-terrorist officer and the subsequent cover-up.
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