Reading Tips for Winter Days

The winter days are getting shorter, darker and colder, but no worries! Here are six books about espionage and intelligence that will make time fly fast. This is the real stuff, told by people involved and thorough research. I really enjoyed reading these books. Highly recommended! Don't waste that winter, make it exciting and fascinating!

Must read books on intelligence (click to enlarge)

📖 The Billion Dollar Spy - A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal, by David Hoffman (read review)
📖 The Widow Spy - My CIA Journey from the Jungles of Laos to Prison in Moscow, by Martha Peterson. More about Martha Peterson.
📖 Nuking the Moon  -  And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board, by Vince Houghton (read review)
📖 Russians Among Us - Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies, by Gordon Corera.
📖 Deep Undercover - My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America, by Jack Barsky (read review)
📖 The Moscow Rules - The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War, Antonio and Jonna Mendez.

Did you read one of these books, then share your thoughts with the readers in the comments underneath this post.

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Arduino PicoEnigma Simulator

PicoEnigma
by @arduinoenigma

Arduino Enigma recently developed the tiny PicoEnigma, a universal physical Enigma simulator only 4 inch or 10 cm in size. He already made the Enigma Uno, Mega Enigma, Enigma Z30, and even build the Enigma Uhr switch for the plugboard.

Visit his PicoEnigma page for more details. The Arduino Enigma blog has the complete family of Enigma sims and many technical details on all projects. The circuit boards are found at Oshpark. Arduino Enigma is also on Youtube. The unique hand-made PicoEnigma and other types are available on eBay and on tindie.

Meanwhile, there's a race going on at the Enigma World Code Group forum to see who can build the smallest physical Enigma simulator. Incredible how they manage to build those tiny things. Just for fun, but technically true pieces of art.

I already wrote about his tiny touch screen Enigma Uno in 2014,  but he just couldn't stop creating different new versions in various sizes.

Visit Cipher Machines and Cryptology to learn everything about the fascinating Enigma cipher machine, how it was used by the German military during WWII and the Enigma Sim software for PC.