By Norman Polmar, Thomas Brooks and George Fedoroff 
span>Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei G. Gorshkov was the product of a tradition unlike those of his Western contemporaries. He had a unique background of revolution, civil war, world wars, and the forceful implementation of an all-controlling communist dictatorship. Out of this background of violence and overwhelming transformation came a man with a clear understanding of the value of navies, but with his own unique ideas about the kind of navy that the Soviet Union required, and the role that navy should play in Soviet military and national strategy.

By John Keegan
In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about military intelligence. 

By Greville Wynne
This classic is the story of Oleg Penkovsky, how the Brits recruited him and how the US/UK team handled him.

By David Hoffman
This is the story of Adolf Tolkachev who, from the US  Navy's perspective,  was the most valuable Soviet spy CIA recruited in the closing days of the Cold War. It was a purely CIA operation with no naval intelligence participation, but the info Tolkachev provided was of inestimable value to the U.S. Navy.

By Scott W. Carmichael
The story of Ana Montes, one of DIA's premier analysts who was working for the Cubans the entire time (16 years) and had the highest clearances.

NOTE: 60 Minutes did an extensive story in 2023 (updated in 2024) on Ana Montes (article with link to video)  

By Sandy Grimes 
This book details how the very patient work of two CIA women finally uncovered Aldrich Ames.

By Pete Early 
This is the story of John Walker and his spy ring -- one of the most serious penetrations of the U.S. Navy. 

By Ron Olive
Jonathan Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highly sensitive secrets from almost every major intelligence agency in the United States. In just eighteen months he sold more than one million pages of classified material to Israel. No other spy in U.S. history has stolen so many secrets, so highly classified, in such a short period of time. Author Ronald Olive was in charge of counterintelligence in the Washington office of the Naval Investigative Service that investigated Pollard and garnered the confession that led to his arrest in 1985 and eventual life sentence. His book reveals details of Pollard's confession, his interaction with the author when suspicion was mounting, and countless other details never before made public. Olive points to mistaken assumptions and leadership failures that allowed Pollard to ransack America's defense intelligence long after he should have been caught.

By Marcus Luttrell with James D. Hornfischer
Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him -- and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice everything-including themselves-for the sake of family, nation, and freedom.

By Mark Bowden
The inside story of how the interrogators of Task Force 145 cracked Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s inner circle—without resorting to torture—and hunted down al-Qaeda’s man in Iraq