Espionage

Chris Corin exposes the huge apparatus created by Tsarist Russia to combat the threat of revolution.

David Nicholas reveals the skill and good fortune behind Britain’s First World War intelligence operation, and the coup by which the Zimmermann Telegram was cracked, tipping the balance in getting the US to join the Allied war effort.

Simon Kitson explores the prevalence of spying for and against the Nazis in southern France after the German invasion.

Stephen Tyas uncovers a skeleton in the closeted world of espionage.

Andrew Cook compares notes from Soviet sources and recently released MI5 files on Klaus Fuchs, the British nuclear physicist and spy who helped the Soviet Union develop the atom bomb.

The scientist was found guilty of betraying atomic secrets on March 1st, 1950.

John Bossy has painstakingly reconstructed from clues and evidence, a hitherto untold story of intellectual intrigue, spying and double-cross in Elizabethan England.

Bernard Porter on espionage, past and present.

Popular obsession with German espionage in the early 1900s proved to be well-founded, as Nicholas Hiley shows in an examination of the prewar activites of a group of agents controlled by the 'Kaiser's Spymaster'.