How did Great Britain and France, the largest imperial powers of the early twentieth century,
cope with mounting anticolonial nationalism in the Arab world? What linked domestic …

The prewar history of the Japanese intelligence community demonstrates how having power
over much, but insight into little can have devastating consequences. Its postwar history …

Intelligence is a subject that fires the popular imagination. Whether in fact or fiction, stories of
agents working undercover against all odds to obtain secret information or engage in …

British grand strategy in the 1930s had two cardinal elements: security of the home islands
and Imperial Defence. This article questions the view that Britain did not have a strategic …

How serious was the threat of pre-war Japanese espionage and clandestine operations to
western interests? The question, constantly asked before 1941, was rarely addressed …

We argue that British intelligence was transformed during the eleven years that Winston
Churchill and Clement Attlee were in power. This change focused on the relationship …

'Russian intelligence operations are a seam of 20th century European history that can no
longer be ignored… Volodarsky enhances our understanding. His is not the last word–we'll …

This book is new in every aspect and not only because neither the official history nor an
unofficial history of the KGB, and its many predecessors and successors, exists in any …

Frederick Rutland's intelligence activities in interwar Los Angeles have been the subject of
much analysis since the war. Interpretations range from the assertion of his biographer that …

The intelligence literature on the Pacific War of 1941–1945 is grossly asymmetrical. Mainly
American and British authors have examined many aspects of the Allied intelligence war …