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Studies in Intelligence eBook Series

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  • Secrets of Signals Intelligence During the Cold War

    From Cold War to Globalization

    Edited by Matthew M. Aid, Cees Wiebes ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    In recent years the importance of Signals Intelligence (Sigint) has become more prominent, especially the capabilities of reading and deciphering diplomatic, military and commercial communications of other nations. This work reveals the role of intercepting messages during the Cold War. ... Read more

    $114.04 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

  • The Doomsday Machine

    Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

    by Daniel Ellsberg ...
    Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListForeign Affairs Best Books of the YearIn These Times “Best Books of the Year"Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books ListLitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week”</str... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Abyss

    The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

    by Max Hastings ...
    A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily TelegraphThe 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation.Max Hastings ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Body of Secrets

    Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency

    by James Bamford ...
    The National Security Agency is the world’s most powerful, most far-reaching espionage. Now with a new afterword describing the security lapses that preceded the attacks of September 11, 2001, Body of Secrets takes us to the inner sanctum of America’s spy world. In the follow-up to his bestselling Puzzle Palace, James Banford reveals the NSA’s hidden role in the most volatile world events of the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Puzzle Palace

    A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency

    by James Bamford ...
    The first book ever written on the National Security Agency from the New York Times bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Shadow Factory.In this groundbreaking, award-winning book, James Bamford traces the NSA's origins, details its inner workings, and explores its far-flung operations. He describes the city of fifty thousand people and nearly twenty buildings that is the Fort Meade ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Century of Spies:Intelligence in the Twentieth Century

    Intelligence in the Twentieth Century

    by Jeffery T. Richelson ...
    Here is the ultimate inside history of twentieth-century intelligence gathering and covert activity. Unrivalled in its scope and as readable as any spy novel, A Century of Spies travels from tsarist Russia and the earliest days of the British Secret Service to the crises and uncertainties of today's post-Cold War world, offering an unsurpassed overview of the role of modern intelligence in every ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Code Warriors

    NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union

    by Stephen Budiansky ...
    A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous “cult of silence” has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decadesThe National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Gambling with Armageddon

    Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Martin J. Sherwin ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War—how such a crisis arose, and why at the very last possible moment it didn't happen.In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Secret Sentry

    The Untold History of the National Security Agency

    by Matthew M. Aid ...
    In February of 2006, Matthew Aid's discovery of a massive secret historical document reclassification program then taking place at the National Archives made the front page of the New York Times. This discovery is only the tip of the iceberg of Aid's more than twenty years of intensive research, culled from thousands of pages of formerly top secret documents. In The Secret Sentry, he details the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Declassification Engine

    What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets

    by Matthew Connelly ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE • Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit?“A brilliant, deeply unsettling look at the history and inner workings of ‘the dark state'.... At a time when federal agencies are increasingly classifying or destroying documents with historical significance, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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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. He maps the size and shape of the Cold War state built in response to that perceived threat, and traces the arguments successive generations of ministers, the military and civil servants have used to justify the British ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD