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Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Covers the development of espionage, intelligence, electronic warfare, codes & cyphers
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LES ARMES DES ESPIONS
by Deodat du Puy Montbrun

French text. A study of the equipment of espionage. The author looks at everything from the microphone or camera in a packet of cigarettes, drugs, information on buttons to satellite cameras

1972, Balland, Paris, , ,< R-03>,298pp. index.Illustrations, Endpapers marked. Scratch and rubbing on dw. Good, Fr.text,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 36020-01..............................£12.00 

COLONEL Z: THE SECRET LIFE OF A MASTER OF SPIES
by Anthony Read and David Fisher

The extraordinary story of Britain's most influential spymaster, Lt Col Sir Claude Marjoribanks Dansey. He fought the Matabele in Rhodesia, bandits in Borneo, rode with Churchill in S Africa, and was with the force that relieved Mafeking in the Boer War. He ran his own semi-private outfit in the 1930s reporting on German re-armament. In WWII he effectively ran MI6 and MI9 - the escape and evasion organisation. He was described by historian, Hugh Trevor-Roper as "corrupt, incompetent and cunning."

1984, Hodder & Stoughton, , 03400269103,< R-03>,361pp, bibliography, index, vg in dw, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 29222-01..............................£12.00 

SOLDIER INTO SPY
by R Rieul

The story of a French soldier captured in 1940. He escaped twice and reached Switzerland on his third attempt in 1943. He volunteered to become an intelligence agent and operated in France where he set up a network of sub-agents in Paris undertaking special missions. The liberation of Paris came just in time to prevent his capture by the Gestapo.

1986, William Kimber, , 0718306139,< R-03>,221pp, 14 ills., Storage wear only. Rubbed dw, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 7074-01..............................£10.00 

KILL THE FUHRER: SECTION X AND OPERATION FOXLEY
by Denis Rigden

During the Second World War, Britain's top secret Special Operations Executive plotted to assassinate Hitler. A small department of SOE known as Section X had the complex task of investigating how, when and where the deed might be done. Only Section X and a handful of other SOE staff knew of this top secret project, codenamed Operation Foxley. This book provides an insight into the shadowy world of Britain's wartime intelligence activities and how the secret plot against Hitler was planned from the corridors of Whitehall.

1999, Sutton Publishing, , 0750921951,< R-03>,214pp, 21 b/w photos, New in d/w, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 31963-01..............................£10.00 

THE RETURN OF THE DARK INVADER
by Captain von Ritelen

The second part of von Rintelen's memoirs is an account of many of the political events in Europe from 1921 onwards revealed at first hand through his connections with the principal figures involved. Much of the secret history of the growth of the new Germany is told here. Cheap edition stamped 'Colonial Edition' on inside cover.

1941, Peter Davies, , ,< R-03>,266pp, dw torn and foxed. Foxing on page edges,very light on some pages. Good, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 3415-01..............................£6.00 

PHILBY: THE LONG ROAD TO MOSCOW
by Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville

Who was Kim Philby? What drove him on his lonely and perilous career as Soviet Russia's top spy in the West? What sort of human being emerged from a lifetime of deception and terror? This life of Philby is a psychological thriller unfolding in such dramatic grounds as Hitler's Berlin, Dollfuss's Vienna, Franco's Spain, wartime London, Washington in the Cold War, the Middle East and finally Moscow.

1973, Hamish Hamilton, , 0241023670,< R-03>,xiv + 282pp, 12 ills, index, Good in rubbed dw, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 30141-01..............................£10.00 

THE GREAT SPY SCANDAL
by Donald Seaman and John S Mather

The inside story of the Burgess and Maclean debacle. An account of men who betrayed Britain to the Russians and destabilised MI6 by defecting to the Soviet Union. In 1951 Guy Burgess accompanied Donald Maclean in an escape to Moscow after Maclean fell under suspicion for espionage, even though Burgess himself was not suspected by the British Security Service.

1953, Daily Express, 1st edition, ,< R-03>,192pp, 80 ills, appendix, g in worn dw, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 13234-01..............................£10.00 

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ESPIONAGE: THE SPY'S WHO'S WHO
by Ronald Seth

Graphic descriptions of every major spy and important espionage incident from ancient times to the 1970's. Beria, the BND, the Deuxieme Bureau, Mata Hari, Powers and Walsingham are just a few of the entries.

1974, Book Club Associates, Book Club edition, ,< R-03>,683pp., dw worn with faded spine. Pages edges browning. Good., ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 2456-01..............................£7.00 

GENTLEMEN SPIES
by Kurt Singer

Spies and Spy masters of the 20th Century. Includes chapters on Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's Chief of Staff during Eisenhower's tenure at SHAEF and Director of the CIA from 1950 to 1953, Gerhart Eisler who had been revealed as a German communist spy in the U.S. since 1933, Wilhelm Franz Canaris, head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944, and Ernst Wollweber who was Minister of East Germany’s Stasi from 1953 to 1957.

1952, W H Allen Publishing, , ,< R-03>,224pp, 12 ills., ex-lib, covers & spine marked by damp & faded, txt g, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 25213-01..............................£9.00 

ENIGMA AND ITS ACHILLES HEEL
by Hugh Skillen

A scarce volume providing further insights into Enigma in WWII. The book includes Lt. Colonel Langer's report on the Battle of France, a history of the Enigma Machine, the personal experiences of a German Enigma/Geheimschreiber operator including the Russian Front and the Alpine Redoubt, the capture, interrogation and escape of Gustave Bertrand, German facsimile of the Enigma Cipher Machine instructions and more. The author spent four wartime years in wireless intercept with MI8, spending a year at Bletchley Park between D-Day and VE Day

1992, Major Skillen, , 0951519026,< R-03>,x + 225pp, 26 ills, drawings & maps, As new in d/w, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 12922-01..............................£44.00 

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