Espionage

Codebreakers work in Hut 3 at Bletchley Park during the Second World War

Second World War

Bletchley Park: Britain’s wartime intelligence factory

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Female spies of the Civil War era

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Britain’s foreign policy secrets

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Second World War

The mystery of Donald Maclean

Alan M Turing and colleagues working on the Ferranti Mark I Computer, 1951.

Second World War

Alan Turing: The man, the enigma

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Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

Second World War

My history hero: Krystyna Skarbek

From The Library

President Kennedy holds a press conference shortly before the failed 'Bay of Pigs' invasion of Cuba. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Bay of Pigs invasion: Kennedy’s Cuban catastrophe

Adolf Hitler in uniform. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Second World War

The Third Reich’s nuclear programme: Churchill’s greatest wartime fear

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Second World War

Britain’s secret wartime prison

Children at the Berlin Wall on Sebastianstrasse, Berlin - Kreuzberg - in around 1964. (Photo by Lehnartz/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The secret history of the Berlin Wall

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British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Attlee’s secret war with Stalin

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First World War

Money, love and revenge: the motivations of spies through history

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Second World War

A legendary spymaster

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Second World War

The evolution of British code-breaking