Secret Services
TALE OF THE SCORPION.
Pp. viii+232, 16 plates, appendix, glossary, index; med. 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1988. First edition. *Erratum slip loosely inserted. Previously Director of ASIO, the author describes the internal workings of the organisation and comments on many of the prominent matters involving..... 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
LA PISCINE.
The French Secret Service since 1944. Translated by W. D. Halls. Pp. xiv+344, glossary, notes, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Blackwell, London, 1989. First edition in English. *First published in French as La Piscine: les services secrets francais 1944-1984 by Editions du Seuil, Paris..... 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