Best Espionage (Non-Fiction)

Descrizione
True Spy stories
1
The Codebreakers
di David Kahn
1,222 utenti
12 recensioni
4.1
3 Members
lquilter, LoriAnnK, John_Vaughan
2
Bridge of Spies
di Giles Whittell
279 utenti
8 recensioni
3.8
2 Members
Chatterbox, LoriAnnK
4
Agente Zigzag
di Ben Macintyre
1,696 utenti
81 recensioni
3.9
2 Members
aulsmith, John_Vaughan
5
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
di Sarah Helm
441 utenti
20 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
lquilter, LoriAnnK
6
The Fourth Man
di Andrew Boyle
171 utenti
3 recensioni
3.1
Member
John_Vaughan
8
Mask of Treachery
di John Costello
114 utenti
1 recensione
½ 3.5
Member
John_Vaughan
9
The Dangerous Otto Katz: The Many Lives of a Soviet Spy
di Jonathan Miles
25 utenti
1 recensione
4
Member
Chatterbox
10
Double Cross : The True Story of the D-Day Spies
di Ben Macintyre
1,059 utenti
45 recensioni
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
11
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
di Jennet Conant
771 utenti
28 recensioni
3.2
Member
John_Vaughan
12
A Man Called Intrepid
di William Stevenson
1,174 utenti
13 recensioni
4.2
Member
Chatterbox
13
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
di Milton Bearden
287 utenti
4 recensioni
4
Member
Bretzky1
14
Operation Mincemeat
di Ben Macintyre
1,940 utenti
96 recensioni
3.9
Member
Chatterbox
15
The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby
di Phillip Knightley
192 utenti
4 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
John_Vaughan
16
Casey: The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey: from the OSS to the CIA
di Joseph E. Persico
101 utenti
½ 4.5
Member
Bretzky1
Spiegazioni
Bretzky1: Interesting for how much power Casey wielded in a position not known for having a seat at the big table, and instructive for why intelligence chiefs should stay away from policy
17
A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs
di Theodore Draper
117 utenti
½ 3.4
Member
Bretzky1
18
Between Silk and Cyanide
di Leo Marks
1,014 utenti
32 recensioni
4.1
Member
John_Vaughan
19
Our Own Backyard: The United States In Central America, 1977-1992
di William M. LeoGrande
58 utenti
1 recensione
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
Spiegazioni
Bretzky1: Not strictly a story about espionage; but does cover a lot of the CIA's rather amateurish activities in Central America
20
Cacciatore di spie
di Peter Wright
1,723 utenti
16 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
John_Vaughan
21
Operation Solo: The FBI's Man in the Kremlin
di John Barron
107 utenti
2 recensioni
½ 4.6
Member
Bretzky1
22
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956
di David Holloway
158 utenti
2 recensioni
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
Spiegazioni
Bretzky1: Deals in part with Soviet espionage against American and British nuclear programs in the 1940s and 1950s
23
The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA
di Antonio J. Mendez
390 utenti
8 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
24
The Secret War against Hanoi
di Richard H. Shultz Jr.
126 utenti
1 recensione
4
Member
Bretzky1
26
One Point Safe
di Andrew Cockburn
59 utenti
3.8
Member
Bretzky1
Spiegazioni
Bretzky1: American efforts, both overt and covert, to prevent Russian nuclear materials from winding up in even more dangerous hands
27
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
di Judith Miller
679 utenti
6 recensioni
½ 3.3
Member
Bretzky1
28
Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
di Bill Gertz
163 utenti
½ 3.3
Member
Bretzky1
29
Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA
di Morten Storm
130 utenti
2 recensioni
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
Spiegazioni
Bretzky1: A good story, but one that I can't quite trust as being fully truthful
30
Class 11: Inside the CIA's First Post-9/11 Spy Class
di T. J. Waters
144 utenti
2 recensioni
½ 3.3
Member
Bretzky1
32
Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
di John Keegan
1,068 utenti
19 recensioni
½ 3.5
Member
Bretzky1