Studies in Intelligence 67, No. 3 (Extracts, September 2023)

Reviews—Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf, September 2023

Compiled and reviewed by Hayden Peake, with contributions from others.

Books reviewed in this issue of Bookshelf*

Current Issues

Intelligence for Homeland Security: An Introduction, by Jeffrey Douglas Dailey and James Robert Phelps

Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report, by the COVID Crisis Group. Reviewed by Radhika M.

The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How MI6 and the CIA Work Together, by Michael Smith

Memoir

Never Give an Inch: Fighting for an America I Love, Mike Pompeo

History

Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies, by Mark Hollingsworth

Before Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of the First World War, by Paul Gannon

Danger Zone: US Clandestine Reconnaissance Operations Along the West Berlin Air Corridors, 1945–1990, by Kevin Wright

Double Agent Balloon: Dickie Metcalfe’s Espionage Career for MI5 and the Nazis, by David Tremain

Forging Secrets: Faces and Facts Inside the Nazi Operation Bernhard Scheme, edited by Kiel Majewski et al.

Hitler’s Trojan Horse: The Fall of the Abwehr, 1943–1945, Vol. II, by Nigel West

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy, by Alexander Rose. Reviewed by David Welker.

The Madam and The Spymaster: The Secret History of the Most Famous Brothel in War-time Berlin, by Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner, and Dr. Julia Schrammel

The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, The Cold War, and the World on the Brink, by William Inboden

The Soldier Statesman in the Secret World: George C. Marshall and Intelligence in War and Peace, by David Robarge

Spy Ships: One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines, by Norman Polmar and Lee J. Mathers

Intelligence Abroad

Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence & The Advent of Cyber, by John Blaxland and Clare Birgin

Fiction

Citizen Orlov, by Jonathan Payne. Reviewed by John Ehrman.

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*Unless otherwise noted, reviews are by Hayden Peake.