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After a stalled career in espionage, a Soviet spy was assigned to an archive. What he learned made him decide to smuggle its ...

1. As the commander of an outmatched Continental Army, George Washington relied on his spies to anticipate enemy movements and thereby even the odds with the British. The letters Alexander Rose quotes ...

When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. The book that started the military technothriller genre.

These autumn months are a good time for the reader who comes in from the cold. There’s a new book about spies hitting shelves just about every week, including a sequel to “The Spy Who Came in From the ...

As Americans scrutinize the accidental leak of a high-level U.S. group chat, several books detail other mishaps in the annals of global conflict. As the history of war shows, incompetence is a common ...

Early one morning last week FBI agents rapped sharply on the doors of five Detroit houses, made five arrests. Agents in New York boarded a freighter, made a sixth. Four of the prisoners—a countess, a ...