Books similar like The Secret World: A History of Intelligence

On Grand Strategy

A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades

John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost tw…

Buy this book on Amazon

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from the man hailed by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter”

The Talmud says…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Seventh Floor (Damascus Station, #3)

Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other people’s secrets. Now they must steal each other’s.

A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to se…

Buy this book on Amazon

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. Thi…

Buy this book on Amazon

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When …

Buy this book on Amazon

Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic

A major new and definitive work by the author of Iran: Empire of the Mind. Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Tehran in February 1979 was a key moment in post-War international politics. A large, well-pop…

Buy this book on Amazon

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, po…

Buy this book on Amazon

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s

Buy this book on Amazon

The City of Belgium

Buy this book on Amazon

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

The Bhagavad-gita (“Song of God”), which forms eighteen chapters in the epic Mahabharata, presents the core of the Vedic philosophy in a relatively brief seven hundred verses. Celebrated and revered f…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldier relates the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the Ame…

Buy this book on Amazon

Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service

The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service unv…

Buy this book on Amazon

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the st…

Buy this book on Amazon

Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly

Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games Evy Poumpouras shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security force in…

Buy this book on Amazon

Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War

Buy this book on Amazon

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time—collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping…

Buy this book on Amazon

Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5

Buy this book on Amazon

The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel

Buy this book on Amazon

A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intellig…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Science of Storytelling

Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Secret World: A History of Intelligence

Similar books (20)