military intelligence

Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer recounts his experiences serving with an elite group of intelligence operators in Afghanistan, where he led a black-ops team in the fight against the Taliban.

Chris Mackey, a senior interrogator at Bagram Air Base and in Kandahar, along with five other interrogators, describes how soldiers specially trained in the art of interrogation went face-to-face with al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners. Discusses interrogation strategies, rewriting techniques, and tactics grounded in the Cold War.

D-Day, June 6, 1944, was a stunning military accomplishment but it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the Double Cross system, which specialized in turning German spies into double agents, tricked the Nazis into believing that the Allies would attack at Calais and Norway rather than Normandy, thereby keeping the bulk of Hitler's army away from the actual invasion site. Now the story is told from the point of view of the five spies who formed the Double Cross nucleus. And there was a shadowy sixth spy, whose heroic sacrifice is revealed here for the first time.

Tells the story of the covert operations that took place during the Korean War, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the events, decisions, and personality conflicts in the United Nations and in the Communist high commands.

A comprehensive analysis of the relationship between Nazi Germany's espionage organization Abwehr and the American OSS during World War II, providing details on Abwehr's collaboration with the Allies and other German resistance groups.

Offers a comprehensive account of the covert paramilitary and espionage campaign the United States executed against North Vietnam from 1964 to 1972.

In a quiet graveyard in rural England a well-dressed man is digging at a tomb. He is careful not to disturb the occupant?s slumbers as he removes a deeply buried package. He recovers the find and drives away. Shortly afterwards, another man also approaches the grave. He, however, is disappointed. This nerve-tingling operation is part of a cat-and-mouse plot played out between the police and the possessor of a rare and valuable Enigma machine that had been stolen from Bletchley Park. This bizarre episode in Bletchley Park?s history is as mysterious as the activities of the wartime codebreakers who worked there. In this gripping detective story Christine Large, Director of Bletchley Park, reveals the theft?s inside story and explains exactly how the person in possession of the machine was caught.

An American Army lieutenant presents his memoirs of the guerrilla activities of the White Tigers special operations force in the Korean War.

A history of codebreaking during World War II, looking at the efforts of British and American operatives to crack Japanese, German, and British diplomatic codes, and highlighting the work of some of the codebreaking heroes of the long conflict.