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Britain’s Plot to Kill Hitler: The True Story of Operation Foxley and SOE by Eric Lee

30 April 2022 By Editor

Operation Foxley was the name of the secret plan supported by Winston Churchill to assassinate Hitler in 1944–45. More than 75 years after its conception, the assassination plan remains shrouded in mystery. Eric Lee’s new book is the product of painstaking research and sheds more light on this plan. This book asks what would have […]

Traitor in the Ice by KJ Maitland

31 March 2022 By Editor

Winter, 1607, and a man is struck down in the grounds of Battle Abbey, Sussex. Before dawn breaks, he is dead. Home to the Montagues, Battle has caught the paranoid eye of King James. The Catholic household is rumoured to shelter those loyal to the Pope, disguising them as servants within the abbey walls. And […]

Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby by Timothy Ashby

30 March 2022 By Editor

This is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan intelligence agent and diplomat who served as ambassador to Scotland during the Spanish Armada crisis. It provides a fresh social, political and foreign policy insight from the perspective of a gentleman spy who took part in some of the most important events of his time. Much of […]

Stealing the secret of silk: the first international industrial spies?

19 December 2021 By Jemahl Evans

Into the crisis-ridden Eastern Roman Empire of the 6th century two monks arrived with an audacious plan: to steal the secret of silk production from China. Why was this idea so important to Emperor Justinian? Jemahl Evans, author of The Charioteer, unravels what may have been the first recorded case of international industrial espionage in […]

A Beautiful Spy by Rachel Hore

16 September 2021 By Editor

It all began in the summer of 1928… Minnie is supposed to find a nice man, get married and have children. The problem is it doesn’t appeal to her at all. She is working as a secretary, but longs to make a difference. Then, one day, she gets her chance. She is recruited by the […]

Resistance by Mara Timon

2 September 2021 By Editor

It’s May, 1944. When spy Elisabeth de Mornay, code name Cécile, notices a coded transmission from an agent in the field does not bear his usual signature, she suspects his cover has been blown – something that is happening with increasing frequency. With the situation in occupied France worsening and growing fears that the Resistance […]

The women agents behind the D-Day invasion

29 August 2021 By Mara Timon

The Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June, 1944 – D-Day – is one of the most recognisable events of the Second World War, thanks not just to its importance militarily but to its coverage in books and films. Less well known is the complex and secret process of planning the invasion, and the significant […]

The Cold North Sea by Jeff Dawson

6 May 2021 By Editor

The North Sea, October 1904: When Russian warships bombard the Hull trawler fleet, killing innocent fishermen, public outrage pushes Britain and Russia to the brink of war, the sparks from which could inflame the entire Continent. Dr Ingo Finch, once of the Royal Army Medical Corps, is long done with military adventuring. But when a […]

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