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  • Red Apple

    Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York

    by Phillip Deery ...
    The history of what six men endured during the post-World War II Red Scare in New York City.From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preserve freedom, they ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russians in Cold War Australia

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Phillip Deery, Ruth Balint, Boris Frankel, Elena Govor, Ellen Gray, Justine Greenwood, Philip Mendes, Mara Moustafine0, Ebony Nilsson1, Jayne Persian2, Nicholas Pitt3 ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    Russians in Cold War Australia explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given assisted passage to Australia and other Western countries in the wake of the Second World War. With the Soviet Union and Australia as enemies, skepticism surrounding the immigrants' avowed anti-communism ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Spies and Sparrows

    ASIO and the Cold War

    by Phillip Deery ...
    In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own spy-hunting agency: ASIO. By the 1950s its counterespionage activities were increasingly supplemented by attempts at countersubversion - identifying individuals and organisations suspected of activities that threatened ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • GCHQ

    by Richard Aldrich ...
    As we become ever-more aware of how our governments “eavesdrop” on our conversations, here is a gripping exploration of this unknown realm of the British secret service: Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ).GCHQ is the successor to the famous Bletchley Park wartime code-breaking organisation and is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the country. During the war, it ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Spies

    The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

    by Calder Walton ...
    The “riveting” (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin’s means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • Agents of Influence

    How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies

    by Mark Hollingsworth ...
    There’s no such thing as a former KGB man...'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of RevengeAgents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politics on a near-inconceivable scale. In 1985, 1,300 KGB officers were stationed in the USA. The FBI only had ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Stalin's Englishman

    The gripping true story of 'Cambridge Five' spy Guy Burgess from the bestselling author of ENTITLED

    by Andrew Lownie ...
    The unputdownable biography of the enigmatic spy and traitor Guy Burgess: 'More riveting than a spy novel' - Sunday TelegraphGuy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Dead Doubles

    The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Rings

    by Trevor Barnes ...
    The astonishing but true story of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War—and the international manhunt that seized global attention as it revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB operatives.The dramatic arrest in London on January 7, 1961 of five Soviet spies made headlines worldwide and had repercussions around the globe. Alerted by the CIA, Britain's security service, MI5, had ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Defence of the Realm

    The Authorized History Of M15

    by Christopher Andrew ...
    To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives for the first time to an independent historian. In The Defence of the Realm, Christopher Andrew reveals the precise role of the Security Service in 20th-century British history, from its founding by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909 through two world wars and up to and including its ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of a Spy

    A History of Espionage and Betrayal

    by Michael Smith ...
    For fans of both real spy dramas and fictional ones—both Ben Macintyre and John le Carré—the story of why spies spy.Why do people put their lives at risk to collect intelligence? How do intelligence services ensure that the agents they recruit do their bidding and don't betray them? What makes the perfect spy? Drawing on interviews with active and former British, American, Russian, European, and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 From the First Atom Spy to 7/7 1945-2009

    by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas ...
    PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service.The authors look in detail at MI5s role in the post-Cold War world; in particular, they consider its changing role as it took on the main responsibility in countering terrorist threats to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Enemies Within

    Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain

    by Richard Davenport-Hines ...
    What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands?With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies.Enemies Within is a new history of the influence of Moscow on Britain told through the stories of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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