Espionage
🥇 01
ROGUE HEROES
🖋️ Ben Macintyre
🏢 Crown
The history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of war.
🥈 02
THE SECRET HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II
🖋️ Neil Kagan and Stephen G Hyslop
🏢 National Geographic Society
An illustrated account of the spies, code breakers and covert operations behind the battle lines.
🥉 03
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SECRET SIX
🖋️ Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
🏢 Sentinel
The story of the Culper spy ring, which aided the American cause during the Revolution.
04
THE SECRET WAR
🖋️ Max Hastings
🏢 Harper
The increasing importance of intelligence during World War II.
05
SECRET SERVICE DOGS
🖋️ Maria Goodavage
🏢 Dutton
The canine teams who protect the President of the United States.
06
THE PIGEON TUNNEL
🖋️ John le Carré
🏢 Viking
A memoir by the great spy novelist.
07
RED NOTICE
🖋️ Bill Browder
🏢 Simon & Schuster
A successful American hedge fund manager in Russia was expelled by kleptocrats who then seized his property.
08
THE BILLION DOLLAR SPY
🖋️ David E Hoffman
🏢 Anchor
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's biography of Adolf Tolkachev, who spied for the United States inside the Soviet Union.
09
AVENUE OF SPIES
🖋️ Alex Kershaw
🏢 Crown
An American family's resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris.
10
THE SPY WHO COULDN'T SPELL
🖋️ Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
🏢 NAL
The FBI's hunt for a traitor whose espionage scheme employed complex coded messages that were all the more baffling to decipher due to his dyslexia.