Biteback Publishing imprint: 402 books
Gurkha
The True Story of a Campaign for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
The course of a life can be altered by the smallest decisions; the most innocuous events can turn out to have the greatest of consequences. On a Sunday afternoon in 2004, local politician Peter Carroll invited four men into his Folkestone home and promised to help them fight for the right to settle...
An Inconvenient Genocide
Who Now Remembers the Armenians?
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The most controversial question that is still being asked about the First World War - was there an Armenian genocide? - will come to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians worldwide will commemorate its centenary and Turkey will deny that it took place, claiming that the deaths of over half of the...
Franco's Friends
How British Intelligence Helped Bring Franco to Power in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Falangist uprising in July 2011, Franco's Friends tells the little-known true story of how MI6 orchestrated the coup that brought General Franco to power in Spain in 1936, leading to the Spanish civil war and 40 years of right-wing dictatorship....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In 1921, MI5 commissioned a comprehensive, top-secret review of the organisation's operations during the First World War. Never intended for circulation outside of the government, all seven volumes of this fascinating and unique document remained locked away in MI5's registry ... until now. Recently...
Kim Philby
A story of friendship and betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Kim Philby, the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring, was the Cold War's most infamous traitor, a Soviet spy at the heart of British intelligence. Philby joined Britain's secret service MI6 during the war and went on to head the section tasked with rooting out Russian spies before becoming...
Operation Garbo
The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
He was GARBO to the Allies and ALARIC to the Germans – the most successful double agent of the Second World War. Indeed, his spy network across Britain was so highly regarded that he was decorated for his achievements … by both sides.
Throughout the war, GARBO kept the Germans supplied with reports...
Six
The Real James Bonds 1909-1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The first part of acclaimed author Mick Smith’s epic, completely unauthorised history of Britain s external intelligence community. Six tells the complete story of the service’s birth and early years, including the tragic, untold tale of what happened to Britain’s extensive networks in Soviet...
The Bedbug
Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Klop Ustinov was Britain's most ingenious spy - but he was never licensed to kill. Instead, he was authorised to bemuse and beguile his enemies into revealing their deepest, darkest secrets. From the Russian Revolution to the Cold War, he bluffed and tricked his way into the confidence of everyone...
by Michael Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park are now believed to have shortened the duration of the Second World War by up to two years. During the dark days of 1941, as Britain stood almost alone against the the Nazis, this remarkable achievement seemed impossible. This extraordinary book, originally...
Tony Benn
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Tony Benn has been portrayed as both hero and villain, as a creative and as a destructive force. This comprehensively revised edition of Jad Adams's classic biography, is written with unparalleled access to Benn's private records, and describes the long and turbulent career of one of the most charismatic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
As the governing party of peace and reform, and then as the third party striving to keep the flame of freedom alive, the Liberal Party, the SDP and the Liberal Democrats have played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its...
by Edwin Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Inside Russian Politics is an intelligent, critical and engaging account of the realities of contemporary Russian politics. It is distinctive in widening our view of Russia beyond the standard account of global power plays and resurgent authoritarian menace. Putin matters, but he is not Russia. Russian...
The Treacherous Path
An Insider’s Account of Modern Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
In 1991, Vladimir Yakunin, a Soviet diplomat and KGB officer, returned from his posting in New York to a country that no longer existed.
The state that he had served for all his adult life had been dissolved, the values he knew abandoned. Millions of his compatriots suffered as their savings...
Under Every Leaf
How Britain Played the Greater Game from Afghanistan to Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Delving into an encyclopaedic array of little-known primary sources, William Beaver uncovers a vigorous intelligence function at the heart of Victoria’s Empire. A cadre of exceptionally able and dedicated officers, they formed the War Office Intelligence Division, which gave Britain’s foreign...