The history of INTERPOL, the organization that is active in over 179 countires.

Information about Operation Barbarossa became known to I.V. Stalin. The data on Hitler's insidious plan was obtained by Ilse Stöbe (‘Alta’), the head of a Soviet military intelligence group that operated in Berlin and had access to German state secrets. In December 1942, she was captured by Gestapo agents and executed by guillotine in a Berlin prison... Despite torture, ‘Alta’ did not betray...

In 1943, the battles on the Soviet-German front were the most brutal. The German command sought to regain the strategic initiative. The Battle of Kursk was to solve this problem. Carrying out the tasks of the Supreme Command Headquarters, Soviet military intelligence conducted hundreds of secret operations, trying to promptly reveal the plans of Hitler and his generals. Some of the operations...

The names of Richard Sorge, Rudolf Abel, and Nikolai Kuznetsov – heroic intelligence officers who largely ensured the success of major and minor military operations of World War II – are familiar to us from our school days. However, the hidden history of the greatest battles of the 20th century is not limited to a few well-known names, however worthy they may be. From this book, you will learn...

In 1944, Soviet military intelligence operated in new conditions: the Red Army was on the offensive, the situation was changing rapidly, and the Soviet General Staff needed more and more information about the enemy. Soviet military intelligence officers were assisted in gathering information about Nazi Germany by military intelligence officers from Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Norway, the...

This book is dedicated to the people often called ‘heroes of the invisible front.’ It is based on the memoirs of participants in unique operations conducted by our intelligence services during the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War. As is known, intelligence officers had their own front line. They competed with the enemy in military cunning, fought behind enemy lines, obtaining prisoners and...

All the works included in this collection are dedicated to the work of intelligence services during the First World War and were written by employees of these services. For Basil Thomson, head of the Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department during the First World War, there were almost no secrets that he was not privy to. Throughout the four years of the war, he was in constant contact...

An interesting series exploring the history of Russian/Soviet special services. The authors are often working with archival materials never before published.

The book covers the period of the 1920s and the 1930s and highlights the role played by the security organs of the VChK-OGPU to secure the security and ability of the Soviet Armed Forces to protect the national interests. The author seeks to reverse the negative image/view on the role of the agencies to strengthen the armed forces.

Deutsche Diplomaten und Ingenieure schmiedeten 1888 einen abenteuerlichen Plan: Eine Bahnlinie von Berlin über Istanbul bis zum Persischen Golf. Es dauerte Jahre, bis die ersten Schienen verlegt wurden, und erst in den 1930ern stellten die Engländer die Bahnstrecke fertig. Doch wozu dieses Mammutprojekt? Wollte man den Nahen Osten kolonialisieren? Und welche Rolle spielte Wilhelm II. bei diesem...