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All reviews were published in The Journal of Intelligence History and its
predecessors, the IIHSG Newsletter.

 

A

  • Allen, George W.: None So Blind. A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001). reviewed by Hayden B. Peake
  • Alvarez, David: Spies in the Vatican. Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2002). reviewed by Sigurd Hess
  • Arif, K.M: Khaki Shadows. Pakistan 1947-1997 (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2001). reviewed by Doron Arazi

 

B

  • Bauer, Friedrich L.: Decrypted Secrets. Methods and Maxims of Cryptology, 4th revised and extended edition (Berlin: Springer, 2007). reviewed by Wolfgang Krieger
  • Beesly, Patrick: Very Special Intelligence. The Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre, 1939-1945 (London: Greenhill Books/Pennsylvania, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000). reviewed by Jürgen Rohwer
  • Blair, Clay: Hitler's U-Boat War. Vol.1. The Hunters 1939-1942 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997). reviewed by Jürgen Rohwer
  • Bower, Tom: The Red Web. MI 6 and the KGB Master Coup (London: Aurum Press,1989). reviewed by Sigurd Hess
  • Budiansky, Stephen: Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (New York, NY: The Free Press, 2000). reviewed by David Gonnerman

 

C

  • Calder, James D.: Intelligence, Espionage and Related Topics: An Annotated Bibliography of Serial, Journal, and Magazine Scholarship, 1844-1998 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999). reviewed by Shlomo Shpiro
  • Cohen, Stan and Don DeNevi (with Richard Gay): They Came to Destroy America . The FBI Goes to War Against Nazi Spies & Saboteurs Before and During World War II ( Missoula : Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 2003). reviewed by Reinhard R. Doerries

 

D

  • Doerries, Reinhard R.: Hitler's Last Chief of Foreign Intelligence. Allied Interrogations of Walter Schellenberg (London/Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2003). reviewed by Ralph Erskine

 

E

  • Eichner, Klaus, and Andreas Dobbert: Headquarters Germany. Die USA-Geheimdienste in Deutschland (Berlin: edition ost, 1997). reviewed by Shlomo Shpiro
  • Ensign, Eric S.: Intelligence in the Rum War at Sea 1920-1933 (Washington, D.C.: Joint Military Intelligence College, 2001). reviewed by Jan G. Heitmann
  • Erskine, Ralph and Michael Smith, eds.: Action this Day (London: Bantam Press, 2001). reviewed by Jürgen Rohwer

 

F

  • Fischer, Benjamin, ed.: At Cold War's End: US-Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991 ( [Reston, VA]: Central Intelligence Agency, 1999). reviewed by Henning Crome
  • Fisher, Louis: Nazi Saboteurs on Trial. A Military Tribunal and American Law ( Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2003). reviewed by Reinhard R. Doerries

 

G

  • Galérant, Germain and Jacques Heulliard: Le Combat de la Rougemare. Un Western entre Beauvais et Rouen pendant la guerre 1914-1918 (Luneray: Editions Bertout, 1989). reviewed by Hilmar-Detlef Brückner
  • Ganser, Daniele: NATO's Secret Armies. Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (London: Frank Cass, 2005). reviewed by Peer Henrik Hansen
  • Grimmer, Reinhard, Werner Irmler, Willi Opitz and Wolfgang Schwanitz, eds.: Die Sicherheit. Zur Abwehrarbeit des MfS, 2 vols. (Berlin: Verlag Neues Berlin, 2002). reviewed by Bodo Wegmann

 

H

  • Harper, Stephen: Kampf um Enigma. Die Jagd auf U 559 (Hamburg: E. S. Mittler & Sohn, 2001). reviewed Jürgen Rohwer
  • Herman, Michael: Intelligence Power in Peace and War (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1996). reviewed by Sigurd Hess

 

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K

  • Kahn, David: The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004). reviewed by Emil Levine and Mark Stout
  • Keipert, Maria, Peter Grupp, eds.: Biographisches Handbuch des deutschen Auswärtigen Dienstes 1871-1945, [Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service, 1871-1945], Volume 1, A-F (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2000). reviewed by Reinhard R. Doerries
  • Kinsman, Gary, Dieter Buse and Mercedes Steedman, eds.: Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2000). reviewed by Michael Salter
  • Kohnen, David: Commanders Winn and Knowles. Winning the U-Boat War with Intelligence, 1939-1943 (Krakow: The Enigma Press, 1999). reviewed by Jürgen Rohwer
  • Klooz, Marie Stuart: Japanese Diplomatic Secrets (1933 Manuscript). The Only Publication Ever Seized by the U.S. Government with Analytical Articles from Cryptologia Ed. Emil Levine. Published as a CD at Laguna Hills, California, by Aegean Park Press, 2001. reviewed by David Kahn

 

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M

  • McKay, Craig G., and Bengt Beckman: Swedish Signal Intelligence 1900-1945 (London, Frank Cass Publishers, 2003). reviewed by Sigurd Hess
  • Meulstee, Louis and Rudolf F. Staritz: Clandestine Radio. Wireless for the Warrior , Vol. 4, (Ferndown/ Dorset : Wimborne Publ. Ltd., 2004). reviewed by Bernd Lippmann
  • John H. Morrow, Jr., The Great War: An Imperial History ( London : Routledge, 2004). reviewed by Reinhard R. Doerries

 

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P

  • Delo Penkovskogo. Moscow: TERRA, 1997. reviewed by Jürgen Schmidt
  • Peretruchin, Igor K.: Agenturnaia kli … ka – Trianon. Vospominaniia kontrrazved … ika [Agent Cover Name Trianon – Memoirs of a Counter-Espionage Officer] (Moscow: Zentrpoligraf, 2000). reviewed by Jürgen Schmidt
  • Prados, John, ed.: America Confronts Terrorism: Understanding the Danger and How to Think About It (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002). reviewed by Giles Scott-Smith
  • Prados, John: Combined Fleet Decoded. The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001). reviewed by Gerhard Krebs

 

Q

R

  • Ritchie, Sebastian: Our Man in Yugoslavia . The Story of a Secret Service Operative ( London : Frank Cass, 2004). reviewed by Ljuba Dornik Šubelj
  • Roewer, Helmut, Stefan Schäfer, and Matthias Uhl, eds.: Lexikon der Geheimdienste im 20. Jahrhundert [Dictionary of Intelligence Services in the 20th Century] (München: F.A. Herbig, 2003). reviewed by Reinhard R. Doerries

 

S

  • Sales, Leigh: Detainee 002. The Case of David Hicks (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007). reviewed by Frank Cain
  • Scalia, Joseph Mark : Germany‘s Last Mission to Japan. The Failed Voyage of U 234 (Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2000). reviewed by Jürgen Rohwer
  • Scott-Smith, Giles and Hans Krabbendam, eds.: The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe 1945-1960 (London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003). reviewed by Frank Schumacher
  • Schirmann, Léon: Mata-Hari. Autopsie D'Une Machination (Paris: éditions italiques, 2001). reviewed by Hilmar-Detlef Brückner
  • Shishkin, Oleg: Bitva za Gimalai. NKVD: Magiya i spionazh (Moscow: Olma Press Publishers, 1999). reviewed by Jürgen Schmidt
  • Sibley, Katherine A. S.: Red Spies In America. Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004). reviewed by Robert O. Kirkland
  • Sinagra, Filippo, ed.: La Crittografia nel Movimento di Liberazione Italiano (Cryptography in the Italian Liberation Movement), 2007. reviewed by Augusto Buonafalce
  • Smith, Michael: Killer Elite. The Inside Story of America 's Most Secret Special Operations Team ( London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006). reviewed by Eric Denécé
  • Smith, Michael: The Spying Game. The Secret History of British Espionage (London: Politico’s, 2003). reviewed by Ben de Jong
  • Steele, Robert David: On Intelligence. Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (Fairfax, VA.: FCEA International Press, 2000). reviewed by Wolfgang Braumandl
  • Stephan, Robert W.: Stalin's Secret War. Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941-1945 ( Lawrence , KS : Univ. Press of Kansas , 2004). reviewed by Clayton D. Laurie
  • Stafford, David: Spies Beneath Berlin (London: John Murray, 2002). reviewed by Frank Cain
  • Stripp, Alan: The Code Snatch (Cambridge: Vanguard Press, 2001). reviewed by Jürgen Rohwer

 

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U

  • Ulfkotte, Udo: Verschlußsache BND (München: Koehler & Amelang Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1997). reviewed by Sigurd Hess
  • Unverhau, Dagmar, ed.: State Security and Mapping in the German Democratic Republic. Map Falsification as a Consequence of Excessive Secrecy? (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2006). reviewed by Wolfgang Krieger

 

V

  • Velidov, Aleksey: Pokhozhdeniya terrorista. Odisseya Yakova Blumkina (Moscow: Sovremmenik Publishers, 1998). reviewed by Jürgen Schmidt

 

W

  • Wegmann, Bodo: Die Militäraufklärung der NVA (Berlin: Verlag Dr. Köster, 2005). reviewed by Gerhard Schmid
  • Weiser, Benjamin: A Secret Life. The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country (New York: Public Affairs, 2004). reviewed by Peer Henrik Hansen
  • White, Jeffrey: “Shakespeare for Analysts. Literature and Intelligence.” Occasional Paper No. 10. Joint Military Intelligence College. Center for Strategic Intelligence Research. Washington, July 2003. reviewed by David Kahn
  • Wilkie, Andrew: Axis of Deceit. The Story of the Intelligence Officer who Risked all to Tell the Truth About WMD and Iraq (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2004). reviewed by Frank Cain
  • Winer, Stan: If Truth Be Told: Secrecy and Subversion in an Age Turned Unheroic (Eastbourne: Antony Rowe, 2004). reviewed by Anja Becker
  • Wise, David: Spy. The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America (New York: Random House, 2002). reviewed by Ken Campbell

 

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Y

  • Yuriko, Onodera: An den Gestaden der Ostsee. Onodera Makato als japanischer Heeresattaché in Riga und Stockholm, 1936-1938, 1940-1945. ed. Gerhard Krebs. Tokio 1999. reviewed by Jürgen Schmidt

 

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