Secret Services
TALE OF THE SCORPION.
Pp. viii+232, 16 plates, appendix, glossary, index; med. 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, slight shelf wear; dust wrapper, backstrip lightly faded; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1988. First edition. *With erratum slip loosely inserted. Previously Director of ASIO, the author describes the internal workings of the organisation and comments..... More
TRACKING THE AXIS ENEMY.
The Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence. Pp. xii+308, notes, selected bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black papered boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 1998. First edition. More
SECRET SERVICE CHIEF.
Pp. xii+260, 8 plates; demy 8vo; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, spine cloth slightly wrinkled; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges lightly worn, front flap creased; Heinemann, London, 1963. First U.K. edition. *First published by Harper, USA in 1961. An account of the career of a former head of the..... More
ULTRA AND MEDITERRANEAN STRATEGY 1941-1945.
Pp. 496, text maps, appendices, notes, list of personalities, cover names, main events, glossary, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, foxed; endpapers offset and foxed, leaves browned and edges quite foxed; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989. First U.K. edition. *The David Levine copy, with his..... More
THE FINISH.
The Killing of Osama bin Laden. Pp. xviii+266, acknowledgements and notes; med. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Grove Press, London, 2012. Australian printing. More
THE RED WEB.
MI6 and the KGB Master Coup. Pp. x+214, 16 plates, endpaper maps, sources, index; med. 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Arum Press, London, 1989. First edition. More
SECRET CHANNEL TO BERLIN.
The Masson-Schellenberg Connection and Swiss Intelligence in World War II. Translated from the German by Karl Vonlanthan with additional translations for the 2004 edition by Frances Stirnemann-Lewis. Pp. xxii+522, 32 plates, occasional text illustrations and map, notes, available source material, bibliography, glossary, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in..... More
SECRET DAYS.
Code-breaking in Bletchley Park. Pp. xxii+202, 8 coloured and 16 black & white plates, text illustration of Bletchley Park layout, glossary, selective chronology, further reading, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Frontline Books, London, 2011. First edition. *The author was a code breaker at Bletchley..... More
THE STORM PETRELS.
The first Soviet defectors, 1928-1938. Pp. 258(last blank), text map, index; med. 8vo; red boards, spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Collins, London, 1977. First edition. *The story of early Soviet defectors who changed sides for various reasons and accounts of their escapes from Russia. More
MRS ZIGZAG.
The Extraordinary Life of a Secret Agent's Wife. Foreword by Nigel West. Pp. 192, 8 plates, notes, index; med. 8vo; white cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; The History Press, Stroud, 2013. First edition. More
PLUNGING POINT: intelligence failures, cover-ups and consequences.
Foreword by Phillip Knightley. Pp. xiv+384(last blank)+[2](blank), occasional text illustrations, appendices, endnotes, bibliography; med. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, edges a trifle worn, security sticker on recto of the lower wrapper; margins of leaves a little browned; Harper Collins Publishers, Sydney, 2005. First edition. More
WIDOWS.
Pp. 576(last blank), notes, index; med. 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; lower edges of leaves lightly soiled; Macdonald, London, 1989. First U.K. edition. *First published by Crown Publishers, New York, 1989. The story of the 25 year intelligence war between the Soviet Union and the USA..... More
MASK OF TREACHERY.
Pp. [ii]+762(last blank), 12 plates, notes and sources, documents and index; black boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, lower edge of leaves a trifle soiled; Collins, London, 1988. First edition. *An in-depth analysis of the Soviet recruitment of agents at..... More
Op. JB.
Pp. xiv+256(last blank), 8 plates, 2 maps, endpaper maps, appendix, index; med. 8vo; black boards , spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; leaves browned; Simon & Schuster, London, 1996. First edition.*Operation James Bond was ordered by Major Desmond Morton, head of the ultra-secret M Section of naval intelligence. The aim..... More
DECEPTION IN WORLD WAR II.
Pp. xiv+248, 16 plates, primary sources, notes, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly worn, with a small closed tear in the bottom edge of front panel, the flaps and verso foxed; endpapers and edges of leaves quite foxed; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1979..... More
THE FOURTH ARM.
Psychological Warfare 1938-1945. Pp. 200, appendix, select bibliography, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed and a little foxed; endpapers a trifle offset and very lightly foxed, edges of leaves a trifle browned and foxed; Davis-Poynter, London, 1977. First edition. *From the library of..... More
CHURCHILL'S SECRET WAR.
Diplomatic Decrypts, The Foreign Office and Turkey 1942-44. Pp. xvi+208, 8 plates, appendices, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; pictorial laminated boards; dust wrapper; Chancellor Press, London, 2000. *First published by Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1997. More
SECRET CLASSROOMS.
An untold story of the Cold War. Introduction by D. M. Thomas. Pp. x+246, 19 plates (3 coloured), select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, lower fore-corners slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges worn and lightly split, small closed tear in head of backstrip; edges of leaves..... More
THE MAN BEHIND THE ROSENBERGS.
Translated by Catherine Dop. Pp. xxvi+432, 32 plates, notes, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, small crease and chip at foot of backstrip; Enigma Books, New York, 2001. First U.S. edition. *First published in French as Confession d'un agent sovietique by Editions du..... More
THE SECRET HISTORY OF PWE.
The Political Warfare Executive 1939-1945. Introduction by Andrew Roberts. Pp. xxvi+496, 8 plates, glossary, select bibliography for further study of PWE, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, leaves a little browned; St Ermin's Press, London, 2002..... More
THE GEHLEN MEMOIRS.
The first full edition of the Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen 1942-1971. Translated by David Irving. Pp. 382(last blank), 12 plates, appendix, glossary, biographical data, index; demy 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in silver, edges of boards slightly browned; dust wrapper, backstrip sunned; Collins, London, 1972. First U.K. edition. *First..... More
MI5 MI6.
Britain's Security and Secret Intelligence Services. Pp.192, numerous text illustrations, some coloured, select bibliography, index; med. 4to; black boards, spine lettered in gilt, slightly marked; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; Bison Books, London, 1989. First edition. *An overview of the activities on MI5 and MI6, the operations and people involved. More
SEARCHING FOR EVERARDO.
Pp. [vi]+330; med. 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; small tape mark on upper free endpaper; Macmillan, London, 1997. First U.K. edition. *Terrorism, disappearance, official cover-ups, the CIA and Guatemala. More
PHOENIX.
Policing the Shadows. Pp. xviii+286(last blank), frontispiece portrait, 16 plates, appendices, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; leaves browned, small split in fore-edge of the title page; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1996. First edition. *The secret war against terrorism in Northern Ireland. More