Books reviewed in this issue of Bookshelf*
Current Issues
Intelligence for Homeland Security: An Introduction, by Jeffrey Douglas Dailey and James Robert Phelps
Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report, by the COVID Crisis Group. Reviewed by Radhika M.
The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How MI6 and the CIA Work Together, by Michael Smith
Memoir
Never Give an Inch: Fighting for an America I Love, Mike Pompeo
History
Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies, by Mark Hollingsworth
Before Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of the First World War, by Paul Gannon
Danger Zone: US Clandestine Reconnaissance Operations Along the West Berlin Air Corridors, 1945–1990, by Kevin Wright
Double Agent Balloon: Dickie Metcalfe’s Espionage Career for MI5 and the Nazis, by David Tremain
Forging Secrets: Faces and Facts Inside the Nazi Operation Bernhard Scheme, edited by Kiel Majewski et al.
Hitler’s Trojan Horse: The Fall of the Abwehr, 1943–1945, Vol. II, by Nigel West
The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy, by Alexander Rose. Reviewed by David Welker.
The Madam and The Spymaster: The Secret History of the Most Famous Brothel in War-time Berlin, by Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner, and Dr. Julia Schrammel
The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, The Cold War, and the World on the Brink, by William Inboden
The Soldier Statesman in the Secret World: George C. Marshall and Intelligence in War and Peace, by David Robarge
Spy Ships: One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines, by Norman Polmar and Lee J. Mathers
Intelligence Abroad
Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence & The Advent of Cyber, by John Blaxland and Clare Birgin
Fiction
Citizen Orlov, by Jonathan Payne. Reviewed by John Ehrman.
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*Unless otherwise noted, reviews are by Hayden Peake.