The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945, by Max Hastings-A revisionist view of intelligence in World War II, questioning the value of “humint”Īgents of Influence: A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II by Henry Hemming-British interference in American politics in WWIIĬode Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became World War II’s Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis-A woman was World War II’s most highly decorated spy The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies by Jason Fagone-An extraordinary woman codebreaker who caught gangsters during the 1930s and Nazi spies during World War II. Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler’s Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin by Howard Blum-The startling Nazi plot to kill FDR, Churchill, and StalinĪ Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America’s Most Important Spy in World War IIby Lucas Delattre-The little-known tale of the top American spy in Nazi Germany Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Story by Richard Bassett-The secret history of World War II Books about espionage before and during World War II German spies and saboteurs in the United States. Within each section, they’re listed in alphabetical order by the authors’s last names. The most remarkable of these books are David Talbot‘s revisionist biography of Allen Dulles, The Devil’s Chessboard Dana Priest and William Arkin’s extraordinary expose of the military-intelligence complex, Top Secret and Max Hastings’ revisionist history of secret intelligence in World War II, The Secret War.Įach of the more than thirty titles below is linked to my review of the book. This post was updated on February 11, 2023. Since January 2010, I’ve read more than thirty excellent nonfiction books about espionage. But, for assurance that what I read is less likely to be fictional, there’s nothing like an in-depth nonfiction treatment of the field by a credible author. In fact, many of those authors are veterans of the intelligence game and should know what they write about. A few authors are particularly diligent about research and accuracy, so most of what I’ve picked up is probably true. For good or ill, a fair amount of what I’ve learned about espionage over the years has come from reading spy stories.
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