Best Espionage (Non-Fiction)

Description
True Spy stories
1
The Codebreakers
by David Kahn
1,302 members
12 reviews
4.1
3 Members
lquilter, LoriAnnK, John_Vaughan
2
Bridge of Spies
by Giles Whittell
337 members
10 reviews
3.8
2 Members
Chatterbox, LoriAnnK
4
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
by Ben Macintyre
1,898 members
87 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aulsmith, John_Vaughan
5
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
by Sarah Helm
490 members
21 reviews
4.1
2 Members
lquilter, LoriAnnK
6
The Fourth Man
by Andrew Boyle
194 members
7 reviews
3.1
Member
John_Vaughan
8
Mask of Treachery
by John Costello
131 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
John_Vaughan
9
The Dangerous Otto Katz: The Many Lives of a Soviet Spy
by Jonathan Miles
29 members
1 review
4
Member
Chatterbox
10
Double Cross : The True Story of the D-Day Spies
by Ben Macintyre
1,233 members
46 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
11
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
by Jennet Conant
835 members
32 reviews
3.2
Member
John_Vaughan
12
A Man Called Intrepid
by William Stevenson
1,327 members
17 reviews
4.1
Member
Chatterbox
13
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
by Milton Bearden
334 members
3 reviews
4
Member
Bretzky1
14
Operation Mincemeat
by Ben Macintyre
2,296 members
105 reviews
3.9
Member
Chatterbox
15
The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby
by Phillip Knightley
213 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
John_Vaughan
16
Casey: The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey: from the OSS to the CIA
by Joseph E. Persico
114 members
½ 4.5
Member
Bretzky1
Explanations
Bretzky1: Interesting for how much power Casey wielded in a position not known for having a seat at the big table, and instructive for why intelligence chiefs should stay away from policy
17
A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs
by Theodore Draper
125 members
½ 3.4
Member
Bretzky1
18
Between Silk and Cyanide
by Leo Marks
1,100 members
33 reviews
4.1
Member
John_Vaughan
19
Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992
by William M. LeoGrande
67 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
Explanations
Bretzky1: Not strictly a story about espionage; but does cover a lot of the CIA's rather amateurish activities in Central America
20
Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
by Peter Wright
1,902 members
18 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
John_Vaughan
21
Operation Solo: The FBI's Man in the Kremlin
by John Barron
127 members
2 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
Bretzky1
22
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956
by David Holloway
185 members
2 reviews
4
Member
Bretzky1
Explanations
Bretzky1: Deals in part with Soviet espionage against American and British nuclear programs in the 1940s and 1950s
23
The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA
by Antonio J. Mendez
423 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
24
The Secret War against Hanoi
by Richard H. Shultz Jr.
145 members
1 review
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
26
One Point Safe
by Andrew Cockburn
64 members
3.8
Member
Bretzky1
Explanations
Bretzky1: American efforts, both overt and covert, to prevent Russian nuclear materials from winding up in even more dangerous hands
27
Germs : Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
by Judith Miller
764 members
6 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
Bretzky1
28
Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
by Bill Gertz
172 members
½ 3.3
Member
Bretzky1
29
Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA
by Morten Storm
157 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
Explanations
Bretzky1: A good story, but one that I can't quite trust as being fully truthful
30
Class 11: Inside the CIA's First Post-9/11 Spy Class
by T. J. Waters
162 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
Bretzky1
32
Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
by John Keegan
1,179 members
20 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Bretzky1