Books, Film, and Television Reviewed in
Studies in Intelligence
2009
Current Topics and Issues
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the
Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen (53 4
[December], Matthew P.)
The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelli-
gence from the End of the Cold War to the Inva-
sion of Iraq by John M. Diamond (53 1 [March],
Roger Z. George)
The Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a
Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in
Afghanistan by Doug Stanton. (53 3 [Septem-
ber], J.R. Seeger)
Intelligence for an Age of Terror by Gregory F. Tre-
verton (53 4 [December], Bookshelf)
General Intelligence
Handbook of Global Security and Intelligence:
National Approaches, Peter Gill, Mark Phythian,
Stuart Farson, and Shlomo Shpiro, eds. (53 2
[June], Michael Warner)
Human Intelligence, Counterterrorism, and National
Leadership: A Practical Guide by Gary Berntsen,
(53 2 [June], Bookshelf)
Intelligence Theory: Key Questions and Debates,
Peter Gill, Stephen Marrin, and Mark Phythian,
eds. (53 2 [June], J.M. Webb)
Following book titles and author names are the Studies in Intelligence issue in which the review appeared and the name of the
reviewer. All Bookshelf reviews are by Hayden Peake.
Studies in Intelligence Vol. 53, No. 4 (December 2009)
Of Knowledge and Power: The Complexities of
National Intelligence by Robert Kennedy (53 4
[December], Bookshelf)
Secret Intelligence: A Reader, Christopher Andrew,
Richard J. Aldrich, and Wesley K. Wark (eds.)
(53 3 [September], Bookshelf)
Terrorism 2005–2007: A Chronology by Edward F.
Mickolus (53 3 [September], Bookshelf)
Vaults, Mirrors and Masks: Rediscovering U.S.
Counterintelligence, Jennifer E. Sims and Burton
Gerber (eds.) (53 4 [December], Bookshelf)
The Real Spy’s Guide to Becoming A Spy by Peter
Earnest with Suzanne Harper (53 4 [December],
Bookshelf
Strategic Intelligence: A Handbook for Practitioners,
Managers and Users by Don McDowell (53 3
[September], Peter C. Oleson)
Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How to
Be A Counterintelligence Officer by William R.
Johnson, (53 2 [June], Bookshelf)
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Historical
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of
Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship
by James Scott (53 4 [December], Bookshelf)
The Central Intelligence Agency: A Documentary
History by Scott C. Monje (53 3 [September],
Bookshelf)
Churchill’s Wizards: The British Genius for Decep-
tion 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin (53 3 [Sep-
tember], Bookshelf)
Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and
Secret Operations by Richard C. S. Trahair and
Robert C. Miller (53 3 [September], Bookshelf)
L’espionne: Virginia Hall, une Americaine dans la
guerre by Vincent Nouzille. (In French) (53 1
[March], M.R.D. Foot)
Historical Dictionary of Air Intelligence by Glenmore
S. Trenear-Harvey (53 3 [September], Bookshelf)
Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage by Nigel West,
(53 2 [June], Bookshelf)
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a
Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s
Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb (53 3
[September], Bookshelf)
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring
in Wartime Washington by Jennet Conant (53 1
[March], Bookshelf)
James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, & the Craft of
Counterintelligence by Michael Holzman (53 3
[September], Bookshelf) See also David
Robarge’s review of James Angleton’s appear-
ances in literatures and film in Studies 53 4
(December)
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Ser-
vice by Andrew Meier (53 2 [June], Bookshelf)
Intelligence Around the World
British Intelligence: Secrets, Spies and Sources by
Stephen Twigge, Edward Hampshire, and Gra-
ham Macklin(53 1 [March], Bookshelf)
CIA’s Eye on South Asia by Anuj Dhar (53 2 [June],
Bookshelf)
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My Life As A Spy: One of America’s Most Notorious
Spies Finally Tells His Story by John A. Walker,
Jr. (53 4 [December], Bookshelf)
Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America’s First
Spy by M. William Phelps (53 4 [December],
Bookshelf)
Operation Kronstadt: The Greatest True Tale of
Espionage to Come Out of the Early Years of MI6
by Harry Ferguson (53 3 [September], Bookshelf)
OSS Training in the National Parks and Service
Abroad in World War II by John Whiteclay Cham-
bers, II (53 4 [December], Clayton D. Laurie)
The Secret War in El Paso: Mexico Revolutionary
Intrigue, 1906–1920 by Charles H. Harris III and
Louis R. Sadler. (53 4 [December], Mark Ben-
bow)
Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service
by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. (53 1 [March], Bob
Bergin)
SPYMASTER: My Thirty-Two Years in Intelligence
and Espionage Against the West by Oleg Kalu-
gin (53 3 [September], Bookshelf)
The Spy Who Came in from the Co-op: Melita Nor-
wood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage by
David Burke (53 3 [September], Bookshelf)
The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War: Katharine Gun
and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion
by Marcia and Thomas Mitchell (53 4 [Decem-
ber], Bookshelf)
Vietnam Declassified: CIA and Counterinsurgency
in Vietnam by Thomas L. Ahern, Jr. (53 4
[December], Hayden Peake)
Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Intelligence,
by Ephraim Kahana and Muhammad Suwaed (53
4 [December], Bookshelf)
Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of
Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas by Paul
McGeough (53 4 [December], Bookshelf)
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Intelligence Around the World (continued)

Memorias de un Soldado Cubano: Vida y Muerte de
la Revolucion [Memories of a Cuban Soldier: Life
and Death of the Revolution], by Dariel Alarcon
Ramirez aka “Benigno” (53 3 [September], Juan)
Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan,
1904–05: Secret Operations on Land and at Sea,
Evgeny Sergeev (53 4 [December], Bookshelf)
SPOOKS: The Unofficial History of MI5 by Thomas
Hennessey and Claire Thomas (53 4 [Decem-
ber], Bookshelf)
Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups—
Six Decades of Espionage Against America and
Great Britain by Chapman Pincher (53 4 [Decem-
ber], Bookshelf)

Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelli-

gence Inside MI5 and MI6 by Gordon Thomas
(53 3 [September], Bookshelf)

Fiction

North from Calcutta by Duane Evans (53 3 [September] Bookshelf)

Special Review Issue

See also Studies in Intelligence Special Review Supplement, Summer 2009, in which the following fictional
works in literature, film, and television are discussed by numerous reviewers (not listed here).
Master and Commander et al. by Patrick O’Brian
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Crescent Moon Rising by Kerry Collison
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Rogue’s March by W. T. Tyler
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
One Day in September (movie)
Munich (movie)
The Siege (movie)
9/11 Documentary (movie)
Hamburg Cell (movie)
Baghdad ER—The 86th Combat Support
Hospital in Iraq (HBO documentary)
Body of Lies (movie)
The Bourne Identity (movie)
Burn Notice (television)
The Recruit (movie)
Taken (movie)
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