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EYE SPY Featured Trade Books/Videos
International Special Duties Operations in the World Wars
David Oliber
At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the transport of 'spies' across enemy lines by aircraft was not regarded as a priority. In fact, there was no formal organisation for these flights and no communications network between the air forces and their agents - apart from homing pigeons and the occasional telephone call. The situation had not improved to any great extent by the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Although dedicated air units had been established to fly the spies - or 'agents' as they were then known - their aircraft were hand-me-downs and their aircrews considered the 'Special Duties' (SD) role as a poor third to the more glamorous worlds of fighter and bomber operations. However, the tasks undertaken by these men and their aircraft were often more hazardous and demanding than any other type of wartime flying. The Second World War saw the rapid development of infrastructures by the Allies to support their SD operations, mirrored in other combatant nations' activities. Operating in all weathers, invariably at night, often at low level and usually without fighter escort, the SD squadrons and units paid a heavy price in aircrew killed and missing. By their very nature, these operations went unreported in wartime and for some considerable time thereafter. The exploits of British and Commonwealth, American, Free European, Soviet, German, Italian and Japanese airmen and units are recorded in this compelling narrative account. Hardback 256pp
ES968
£23.50/$45.00
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Operation Pewiwig
Frederick Boyce
In the closing months of the Second World War, General Eisenhower exhorted the Western Allied forces to redouble their efforts to break the German will to resist. In considering this appeal, General Gubbins, whose Special Operations Executive was making a significant contribution to the liberation of occupied territory, was faced with a fundamental difficulty in the case of Germany. Although opposition to Nazism was present in some areas, it was neither organised nor pro-Allied. Then someone had the idea of creating an entirely fictional German resistance movement and 'selling it' to the Nazi security authorities. From January until April 1945, SOE rained propaganda leaflets on the hapless population fleeing the ruins of their cities and the oncoming Allied ground forces; they broadcast messages to the 'resistance'; they planted the most scandalous lies about eminent Nazis; and at the end they even dropped four agents on fictitious missions. This imaginative response to Ike's exhortation and the sheer audacity of the operation itself demand to be told to a wider audience. Hardback 256pp.
ES969
£21.50/$45.00US
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2nd Edition
John Richard Thackrah
Terrorism is one of the primary concerns of the modern world and is increasingly becoming a major factor in all international relations in the 21st century. This revised and updated second edition of a major reference work in the area contains definitions and descriptions of all aspects of terrorism and political violence, including: individual terrorists, (e.g. Osama Bin-Laden, Carlos, Yasser Arafat, Abu Nidal, Unabomber) terrorist organisations, (e.g. Al-Qaeda, IRA, FARC, Hizbollah, Shining Path) terrorist incidents, (e.g. September 11th, Oklahoma Bombing, Omagh bombing, Bali bombing) countries affected by terrorism, (e.g. Israel, Columbia) types of terrorism, (e.g. eco-terrorism, bioterrorism, cyberterrorism) measures against terrorism, (e.g. counter-terrorism, Europol, CIA, FBI, etc.) forms of political violence, (e.g. civil war, ethnic conflict, kidnapping) history of terrorism, (eg. terrorism in the 1960s, 21st century terrorism) psychology of terrorism (e.g. terrorist types, terrorist beliefs) With a select bibliography for each reference and a detailed cross-referencing system throughout, the revised edition is an excellent resource for academics, students and policymakers. Paperback 288pp.
ES975
£25.00/$48.00US
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Encyclopedia of the World’s special forces
Tactics, History, Strategy and Weapons
This heavily illustrated informative book is the most comprehensive guide available to anyone interested in the special forces and it includes detailed listings and information on special force units and their tactics. - Special forces are trained small, elite teams of soldiers who perform operations deemed too risky or demanding for regular troops. - Special forces missions include counter-insurgency, hostage rescue, political assassination, sabotage, spying, covert surveillance and force ambush. - Most of these operations are performed deep behind hostile lines or within enemy strongholds. - With a battlefield effect out of all proportion to their numbers, special forces today are usually the first into combat and the last out. Hardback 256pp.
ES976
£28.50/$55.00
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Ommissions and Distortions
David Ray Griffit
With US political leaders - Democrat and Republican alike - embracing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, and an eager media receiving the Commission's 567 page report as the whole story, everyone who cares about the fate of American democracy will want to know something about what those pages actually say.
The Commission's account, has made an impression with its size, its endnotes, its detail, its narrative finesse. Yet under the magnifying glass of eminent theologian David Ray Griffin, author of The New Pearl Harbor (a book that explores questions that reporters, eyewitnesses, and political observers have raised about the 9/11 attacks), the report appears much shabbier. In fact, there are holes in the places where detail ought to be abundant: Is it possible that Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld has given three different stories of what he was doing the morning of September 11, and that the Commission combines two of them and ignores eyewitness reports to the contrary? Is it possible that the man in charge of the military that day, Acting Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers, saw the first tower hit on TV, and then went into a meeting, where he remained unaware of what was happening for the next 40 minutes? Is it possible, as the Commission reports, that the FAA did not inform the military that the fourth aeroplane appeared to have been hijacked, contrary to both common sense and the word of FAA employees?
David Ray Griffin's critique of the Commission's report makes clear that America's highest leaders have told tales that wear extremely thin when held up to the light of other eyewitness reports, research, and the dictates of common sense, and that the Commission charged with the task of investigating all of the facts surrounding 9/11 has succeeded in obscuring, rather than unearthing, the truth. Paperback 256pp.
ES977
£15.00/$30.00
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Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess
S J Hammrick
Among the more sensational espionage cases of the Cold War were those of Moscow’s three British spies - Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess. In this riveting book, S. J. Hamrick draws on documentary evidence concealed for almost half a century in reconstructing the complex series of 1947-1951 events that led British intelligence to identify all three as Soviet agents.
Basing his argument primarily on the Venona archive of broken Soviet codes released in 1995-1996 as well as on complementary Moscow and London sources, Hamrick refutes the myth of MI5’s identification of Maclean as a Soviet agent in the spring of 1951. British intelligence knew far earlier that Maclean was Moscow’s agent and concealed that knowledge in a 1949-1951 counterespionage operation that deceived Philby and Burgess.
Hamrick also introduces compelling evidence of a 1949-1950 British disinformation initiative using Philby to mislead Moscow on Anglo-American retaliatory military capability in the event of Soviet aggression in Western Europe.
Engagingly written and impressively documented, Deceiving the Deceivers breaks new ground in reinterpreting the final espionage years of three infamous spies and in clarifying fifty years of conjecture, confusion, and error in Anglo-American intelligence history. Hardback 288pp.
ES979
£22.50/$45.00
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How the World is Under Attack From A New Form of Crime
Peter Warren
Through profiles of individual victims and
companies, this exploration of cyber crime identifies the commonly used
criminal methods, such as viruses, spam, and junk e-mail, and the legal
rights of users against this increasingly international phenomenon.
Old-fashioned criminals are waking up to the new opportunities and
exponential payback of internet crime, adapting schemes like blackmail and
money laundering to this vast new landscape. To better expose the activity
of cyber felons who cost consumers in the United States about $50 billion
a year, this guide also gives preventative advice to help the not-so-savvy
computer users protect themselves from financial and identity theft on the
Internet. Paperback 288pp.
ES980
£12.99/$25.00
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The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
How Hitler's spy chief sabotaged the German war effort. Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Fuhrer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler would start a war Germany could not win. In 1938 he was involved in an attempted coup, undermined by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. In 1940 he sabotaged the German plan to invade England, and fed General Franco vital information that helped him keep Spain out of the war. For years he played a dangerous double game, desperately trying to keep one step ahead of the Gestapo. The SS chief, Heinrich Himmler, became suspicious of the Abwehr and by 1944, when Abwehr personnel were involved in the attempted assassination of Hitler, he had the evidence to arrest Canaris himself. Canaris was executed a few weeks before the end of the war. Hardback 352pp.
ES 1011
£23.00/$48.00
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A CIA Memoir
Floyd L Paseman
For thirty-five years, Floyd Paseman served
in the Operations Directorate of the Central Intelligence Agency. From spy
in the field to the top ranks of the Company's career agents, he
experienced it all as well as seven different presidential
administrations. While Pasemans account of his long service has enough
real-life derring-do to keep the reader engaged, of even greater interest,
however, are Pasemans observation on politics and the CIA, especially how
change of presidential administrations could bring sweeping, and often
negative changes to the agency.
- Johnson - declined to run for a second full term, broken by Vietnam
- Nixon - resigned in disgrace after ending Vietnam and opening relations
with China
- Ford - never elected caretaker
- Carter - hoist on the petard of fundamentalist Islam in Iran
- Reagan - first full, two-term president since Eisenhower and declared
war on the evil empire and brought the USSR to its knees with the threat
of a still fanciful Star Wars
- Bush the father - "won" the Cold War as the Soviet Union collapsed and "coalitioned"
Saddam out of Iraq
- Clinton - leader of the new world order, peace in our time, and dead
Rangers in the streets of Mogadishu
- Bush the son - 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq
In March 1967 author Paseman joined the CIA following successful service
as an army armor officer in Germany. Highly trained in the Chinese
language, most of his service was in the far east. Paseman served as chief
of the East Asia division at Langley and was also station chief Germany,
considered the agencys toughest Cold War field posting. Hardback 320pp.
About the Author
Floyd L. Paseman retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in January
2001 after a thirty-five year career in operations. He recently lived in
southern Virginia outside Williamsburg where he worked as an international
security consultant. Floyd Paseman died the weekend of May 7, 2005.
ES1057
£19.99/$42.00
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The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS in Their Own Words
Gordon Stevens
Based on over 120 hours of recently uncovered video and audio tape, The Originals tells the story of the birth of the SAS in the words of its founding members for the first time. Even David Stirling, founder of the regiment, contributed to the project - most historians believe he died without giving a single interview. It is also a very human story of a gang of misfits coming together to create a unit like no other: a maverick son of a Scottish laird; a boy who lied about his age to enlist; a policeman; a cheeky cockney; a Lincolnshire boxer; an Irish rugby international imprisoned for beating up his commanding officer; an Oxford rowing president and a quietly spoken man of God. The Originals covers the regiment's formation in 1941 to its supposed disbanding in 1945. With only two founding members alive today, it is not only an important document but a thrilling and moving read that will leave you reeling. A military history exclusive - the most important book ever written about the SAS in the words of its founding members. Hardback 352pp.
ES985
£22.50/$48.00
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A Dynasty of Spies
Vin Arthy
The crux of this absorbing and timely memoir of Cold War espionage is the swap of KGB agent Rudolph Abel for American pilot Frank Powers, back to their superpower homes in 1962. Abel had been caught spying in New York in the late 1950s; Powers shot down on a reconnaissance mission over Sverdlovsk in 1960. Yet astonishingly in 1983, it transpired that the man tried and convicted as Rudolph Abel was in fact ...Willie Fisher from Newcastle! The narrative traces Willie's story from Newcastle to Moscow to New York, tracing the birth of his father Heinrich to German parents in Russia. Despite marriage and a daughter and life in the northeast of England, Willie was dedicated to his Communist Party work, and an expertise with radio operation and his facility for languages. When Willie's spying activities were exposed in New York, cautious to the end he claimed to be Rudolph Abel, the name of an old comrade, and the Soviet authorities colluded in his deceit. This singular account of the changing face of communism and the evolution of a century in politics is also the story of a virtual dynasty of spies seen at work and at home - like father like son. Hardback 324pp.
ES990
£28.00/$50.00
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Religion, Terror, and The Future of Reason
Sam Harris
This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Sam Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favour of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behaviour and sometimes heinous crimes. He asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can no longer tolerate views that pit one true god against another. Most controversially, he argues that we cannot afford moderate lip service to religion -- an accommodation that only blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism. While warning against the encroachment of organised religion into world politics, Harris also draws on new evidence from neuroscience and insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological, brain-based need. He calls on us to invoke that need in taking a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this world. Hardback 336pp.
ES986
£14.99/$35.00
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MI6 AND THE MACHINERY OF SPYING
Philip H J Davies
MI6 and the Machinery of Spying is a study of the organisational evolution of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS aka MI6). It traces the development of the agency's internal structure from its inception until the end of the Cold War. The analysis examines how SIS' management structure has been driven by its operational environment on the one hand and its position within the machinery of British central government on the other. Particularly close attention is paid to the agency's institutional links to its consumers in Whitehall and Downing Street, as well as to the causes and consequences of its operational organisation and provisions for counter-espionage and security. The book presents a detailed response to assertions that the SIS was historically chronically mismanaged and badly organised, and to claims that it is unaccountable to political and public oversight. MI6 and the Machinery of Spying provides a critical evaluation of where SIS' organisation actually contributed both to its failures and its successes. It also argues that where SIS activities have resulted in public disasters and scandals the reason has usually been less its lack of accountability and control than the very high degree of control and direction exercised by opportunistic politicians and the senior Civil Servants. Paperback 408 pp
ES 1056
£23.99/$50.00
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The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll
The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution. Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government files and interviewed senior US officials and foreign spymasters. Here he gives the full inside story of the CIA's covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, explores how this sowed the seeds of bin Laden's rise, traces how he built his global network and brings to life the dramatic battles within the US government over national security. Above all, he lays bare American intelligence's continual failure to grasp the rising threat of terrorism in the years leading to 9/11 - and its devastating consequences. Paperback 736 pp.
ES1000
£11.99/$28.00
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The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews
Michael Smith
Frank Foley helped thousands of Jews escape from Germany. At the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann he was described as a Scarlet Pimpernel, risking his own life to save those threatened with death by the Nazis. But he remains virtually unknown, largely because his job as Passport Control Officer in Berlin was a cover for his real role as MI6 Head of Sation in the German Capital. Foley was a British spy, a fact that made his efforts on behalf of the Jews even more dangerous. He had no diplomatic immunity and was liable to arrest at any time. Yet he not only went into the concentration camps to get Jews out, he hid them in his own home, helped them to get forged passports and ignored the rules to provide them with visas for Palestine. One Jewish aid worker estimated that he saved tens of thousands of people from the Holocaust. In this acclaimed book, number 1 bestselling author Michael Smith uncovers a remarkable man and tells his story with characteristic intelligence and humanity. Paperback 304 pp.
ES987
£10.99/$24.00
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The Unknown Years of Combat and Counter-Insurgency
Tim Jones
The covert, clandestine operations of the Special Air Service (SAS), from the jungles of Malaya, Borneo and Brunei to the deserts and mountains of the Middle East, have been widely documented. There has always been intense fascination in the SAS, stoked by the regiment's "closed" organization and secretive activities. But no period of activity has remained more secret than the vital years after World War II when the regiment seemingly expired, only to rise miraculously from the dead to fight Communism in the Malaya emergency. Tim Jones' history pieces together the evidence to show that while the Malaya emergency re-established the SAS as a unique source of counter-guerilla expertise, the regiment lived on and was covertly involved in the Greek Civil War of 1945-49, a war unmatched in savagery until the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s. Hardback 252 pp.
ES989
£27.50/$55.00
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