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The exhibition ‘Top Secret. Cinema and Espionage’ delves into the history of the world of secret agents and its intertwined depiction in television and movies
In Nathalia Holt’s group biography Wise Gals, five of the CIA’s pioneering female agents are brought in from the cold
From fast-paced spy thrillers and moving family sagas to dramatic reimaginings of historical epochs, we asked historians to tell us which new history books they have enjoyed the most in 2021
Reading a good book is a great joy. And recommending a good book is almost as enjoyable. I’ve long been fascinated by books on espionage, and this contributed in no small part to me eventually joining the Dutch intelligence world, and lately, rejoining it in some fashion. If you have favorite books that should be on this page, please let me know on @PowerDNS_Bert or bert@hubertnet.nl! I’m especially looking for books written from different perspectives.
Ursula Kuczynski, alias Ruth Werner, alias Agent Sonya, was a Red Army officer and an expert in radio communication, a saboteur, a first-rate spy and a successful writer. She achieved all of these things while raising a family, which was both a perfect alibi and a fateful trap. If her story is not well-known, it is because until now it has not been written about. Historian Ben Macintyre, the author of several books on the shadowy world of espionage and who has recently published the Spanish-language edition of his 2020 book Agent Sonya: Moscowâs Most Daring Wartime Spy, explains over th...