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1. Adams, James: Sellout. Aldrich Ames: The Spy Who Broke the CIA. London: Michael Joseph, 1995. Hardback, large 8vo, pp xi+322, illustrated with b/w plates. Stamp to the lower fore-edge otherwise Vg in Vg dust jacket. ISBN 0718138899. Stock ref 20550. £8.00
2. Bower, Tom: The Red Web: MI6 and the KGB Master Coup. London: Aurum Press, 1989. Hardback, large 8vo, pp ix+214, illustrated with b/w plates, maps in the end-papers. The story of how the KGB first compromised, and then controlled, MI6's entire intelligence network in the Baltic States of the USSR. Fine in near Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 11854. £7.50
3. Boyle, Andrew: The Climate of Treason: Five Spies Who Spied for Russia. London: Hutchinson, 1979 (reprint). Hardback, 8vo, pp 504, illustrated with b/w plates. Vg/Fine in Vg/Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 12874. £5.00
4. Cecil, Robert: A Divided Life: A Personal Portrait of the Spy Donald Maclean. New York: William Morrow, 1989. Paperback, large 8vo, pp xix+212, illustrated with b/w plates. Detailed account by a Foreign Office colleague who knew Maclean. Near Fine. Price includes UK postage. Stock ref 12824. £5.00
5. Deacon, Richard: The Greatest Treason: The Bizarre Story of Hollis, Liddell and Mountbatten. London: Century, 1989. Hardback, large 8vo, pp 212, illustrated with b/w plates. Vg+ in Vg price-clipped d/e. Stock ref 15950. £7.50
6. Deacon, Richard with Nigel West: Spy. Grafton (revised edition): Paperback. Stock ref 5578. £2.00
7. Foot, M.R.D. and J.M. Langley: MI 9: Escape and Evasion 1939-45. London: Book Club Associates, 1979 (reprint). Hardback, 8vo, pp 365, illustrated with maps. The British secret service that fostered escape and evasion 1939-1945 and its American counterpart. Vg in Vg dust jacket. Stock ref 13103. £6.50
8. Hyde, H. Montgomery: The Atom Bomb Spies. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980. Hardback, large 8vo, pp xii+236, illustrated with b/w plates. Vg in Vg dust jacket. Stock ref 12562. £6.50
9. Kahn, David: Hitler's Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978. Hardback, large 8vo, pp xiii+671, illustrated with b/w plates and in b/w in the text. The first full account of Hitler's intelligence machine. Near Fine in edge-worn dust jacket, torn to the head of the spine. Stock ref 13504. £15.00
10. Kessler, Ronald: Spy vs Spy: Stalking Soviet Spies in America. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1988 Hardback. pp 308. Vg/F in lightly scuffed dust jacket. Illustrated. Stock ref 163. £6.50
11. Knightley, Philip: Philby: The Life and Views of the KGB Masterspy. London: Andre Deutsch, 1988 (1st edition). Hardback, large 8vo, pp xi+291, illustrated with b/w plates. Vg in Vg price-clipped dust jacket. Stock ref 17712. £5.00
12. McGartland, Martin: Fifty Dead Men Walking. London: Blake, 1997. Hardback, large 8vo, pp vi+249. The heroic true story of a British secret agent inside the IRA. Vg+ in Vg dust jacket. ISBN 1857821785. Stock ref 20627. £5.00
13. O'Callaghan, Sean: The Informer: The Real Life Story of One Man's War Against Terrorism. London: Bantam, 1998. Hardback, large 8vo, pp xii+340. The most important intelligence agent in the history of the Irish State. Front board a little marked otherwise Vg in Vg dust jacket. Stock ref 12605. £7.50
14. Page Bruce, Leitch David and Knightley Phillip: Philby - The Spy Who Betrayed A Generation. London: Andre Deutsch, 1968. Hardback. First Edition with b/w photographs, Vg in dust jacket with closed tears, 296pp. Stock ref 602. £6.00
15. Pincher, Chapman: Their Trade is Treachery. NEL: Paperback. Stock ref 13478. £1.25
16. Powers, Thomas: Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda. New York: New York Review of Books, 2002. Hardback, 8vo, pp xxiii+450. Collection of essays on the secret service. Near Fine in near Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 13744. £10.00
17. Randle, Michael and Pat Pottle: The Blake Escape: How We Freed George Blake - and Why. London: Harrap, 1989 (1st edition). Hardback, large 8vo, pp vi+298, illustrated with b/w plates. Wrinkling to the tops of the first few pages otherwise Vg in Vg dust jacket. ISBN 0245547819. Stock ref 19789. £5.00
18. Roosevelt, Archie: For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. Hardback, large 8vo, pp xvi+500, illustrated with b/w plates. New light on the CIA and its management during the crucial years of the Cold War from one of its most prominent members. Vg+ in Vg dust jacket. Stock ref 17225. £7.50
19. Seale, Patrick and Maureen McConville: Philby: The Long Road to Moscow. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1973. Hardback, 8vo, pp xiv+282, illustrated with b/w plates. Vg in Vg dust jacket. Stock ref 9011. £8.00
20. Stafford, David: Churchill and Secret Service. London: Abacus, 2001 (reprint). Paperback, B format, pp xviii+462, illustrated with b/w plates. An account of Churchill's lifelong involvement with the world of intelligence, clandestine operations, counter-terrorism, counter-subversion and deception. Owner's inscription to the inside of the front cover otherwise Vg+. Stock ref 11303. £5.00
21. Stafford, David: Secret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive. London: BBC, 2000. Hardback, large 8vo, pp 254, illustrated with b/w plates. Fine in Vg+ dust jacket. Stock ref 16028. £3.50
22. Stafford, David: Churchill and Secret Service. London: Abacus, 2001 (reprint). Paperback, B format, pp xviii+462, illustrated with b/w plates. An account of Churchill's lifelong involvement with the world of intelligence, clandestine operations, counter-terrorism, counter-subversion and deception. Vg. ISBN 0349112797 Stock ref 19778. £2.50
23. Turnbull, Malcolm: The Spycatcher Trial. London: Heinemann, 1988 (Reprint) Hardback. pp viii+228. Vg/F in lightly scuffed dust jacket. Illustrated. Stock ref 162. £5.00
24. Volkman, Ernest and Blaine Baggett: Secret Intelligence. W.H. Allen: Paperback, 8vo. The inside story of America's espionage empire. Stock ref 6834. £3.00
25. West, Nigel: MI5. New York: Stein & Day, 1982. Hardback. First US edition. 365pp with b/w illustrations, Vg with dust jacket. The True Story of the Most Secret Counterespionage Organisation in the World. Stock ref 426. £8.50
26. West, Nigel: Unreliable Witness: Espionage Myths of the Second World War. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984. Hardback, large 8vo, pp ix+166, illustrated with b/w plates. The truth behind more than a dozen wartime myths. Vg in Vg dust jacket. Stock ref 8968. £7.50
27. Woodward, Bob: Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987. London: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Hardback, large 8vo, pp 543, illustrated with b/w plates. Creased ffep otherwise Fine book in lightly scuffed, price-clipped dust jacket. Stock ref 3998. £5.00
28. Wright, Peter: Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer. USA: Viking, 1987 (3rd printing Aug 1987). Hardback. pp 392. Vg/F in like dust jacket. Illustrated. Price includes Uk postage. Stock ref 156. £5.50
29. Wright, Peter: Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer. USA: Viking, 1987 (7th printing). Hardback. pp 392. Owner's sig to ffep otherwise Vg+ in Vg dust jacket. Stock ref 17317. £5.00
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