The Secret History of MI6

7 best books like The Secret History of MI6 (Keith Jeffery): Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire, Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, Three Cups of Tea, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Author

Tim Weiner

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President...

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Author

Lawrence Wright

A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews...

Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

Author	Alex von Tunzelmann
ISBN	0743285883

Tunzelmann has concocted a very readable and balanced history of the last days of Empire. Tunzelmann avoids demonizing any sect, individual or nation and shows the circuitous routes through which every decision was squeezed out, many tragedies averted and many more inadvertently precipitated....

Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5

Author	Christopher M. Andrew
ISBN	0307263630

An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation...

Three Cups of Tea

Author	Sarah L. Thomson
ISBN	0142414123

This young readers edition of the worldwide bestseller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present. Includes new photos and illustrations, as well as a special interview by...

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Author

Steve Coll

A finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction

Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic...

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops

Author

Damien Lewis

When France fell to the Nazis in the winter of 1939, Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that Britain would resist the advance of the German army--alone if necessary. To help defeat the seemingly unstoppable German war machine, Churchill called for the swift and secret development of a very...