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

Kak byli dobyty svedeniia o podgotovke Germanii k napadeniiu na SSSR

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 author looks at the hidden battles of spies, intelligence and special services during World War Two.

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...

The book talks about important participants of Russian intelligence and counterintelligence during Civil War and World War II.

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...