"No Frederick Forsyth thriller could be as gripping as this real-life story" of British intelligence, brave WWII resisters, and 16,000 homing pigeons ( Daily Mail).Between 1941 and 1944, Britain dropped sixteen thousand homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe, from Bordeaux, France to Copenhagen, Denmark, as part of a spy operation code-named Columba. Returning to MI14, the secret government branch in charge of the "Special Pigeon Service," the...

LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily guarded archive in the world. The answe...

With intrigue that rivals the best le Carré novels, Russians Among Us tells the explosive story of Russian espionage efforts against the United States and the West—from the end of the Cold War to the present and the significant threat of hacking the 2020 electionSpies have long been a source of great fascination in the world of fiction, but sometimes the best true spy stories happen in real life. Russians Among Us tells the full story of Putin’s escalating espionage campaign in the...

A.Q. Khan was the world's leading black market dealer in nuclear technology, described by a former CIA Director as "at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden." A hero in Pakistan and revered as the Father of the Bomb, Khan built a global clandestine network that sold the most closely guarded nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya. Here for the first time is the riveting inside story of the rise and fall of A.Q. Khan and his role in the devastating spread of nuclear technology over ...

From the host of The Rest is Classified podcast, this is the secret history of MI6 - from the Cold War to the present day.'The history of MI6 in the words of real spies' Mail on Sunday'The best post-1949 account of British intelligence I have read' Spectator'As gripping as any novel' IndependentThe British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shr...

With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the presentSpies have long been a source of great fascination in the world of fiction, but sometimes the best spy stories happen in real life. Russians Among Us tells the full story of Putin’s escalating espionage campaign in the West, the ...

LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily guarded archive in the world. The answe...

From the host of The Rest is Classified podcast, this is the secret history of MI6 - from the Cold War to the present day.'The history of MI6 in the words of real spies' Mail on Sunday'The best post-1949 account of British intelligence I have read' Spectator'As gripping as any novel' IndependentThe British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth sin...

The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II.Between 1941 and 1944, British intelligence dropped sixteen thousand homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe, from Bordeaux, France to Copenhagen, Denmark, as part of a spy operation code-named Columb...

A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum unveils the shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway’s secret life as a spy for both the Americans and the Soviets before and during World War II.While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime military intelligence expert, began to discover tantalizing clues that suggested Ernest Hemingway’s involvement in the Second World War was much more complex and dangerous than has been ...

The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. U.S. military planners decided they needed a plan to slow the juggernaut they expected when and if a war began. The plan was Special Forces Berlin.Their mission should hostilities commence was to wreak havoc behind enemy lines, and buy time for vastly outnumbered NATO forces to conduct a breakout from the city. In reality it was an ambitious and extremely dangerou...

An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas...IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as ...