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Loose Lips Sink Ships

May 16, 2017 | SuzyQ
Three minutes to doomsday : an agent, a traitor, and the worst espionage breach in US history by Joe Navarro
Stalin's Englishman : Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge spy ring by Andrew Lownie

Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies--Maclean, Philby, Blunt--brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.

The main enemy : the inside story of the CIA's final showdown with the KGB by Milt Bearden
The puzzle palace : a report on America's most secret agency by James Bamford
Code warriors : NSA's codebreakers and the secret intelligence war against the Soviet Union by Stephen Budiansky
Donovan's Devils : OSS commandos behind enemy lines--Europe, World War II by Albert Lulushi
Spy : the inside story of how the FBI's Robert Hanssen betrayed America by David Wise
Operation Mincemeat : how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an Allied victory by Ben Macintyre
A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal by Ben Macintyre
How to catch a Russian spy : the true story of an American civilian turned double agent by Naveed Jamali
Treason in the blood : H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the spy case of the century by Anthony Cave Brown
A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII by Sarah Helm
Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII by Scott Miller
The new spymasters : inside the modern world of espionage from the Cold War to global terror by Stephen Grey
The winter fortress : the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb by Neal Bascomb
Double agent : the first hero of World War II and how the FBI outwitted and destroyed a Nazi spy ring by Peter Duffy
Shadow enemies : Hitler's secret terrorist plot against the United States by Alex Abella
Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day by Stephan Talty