High profile cases such as the chemical poisonings of Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal, the unmasking of Anna Chapman as a Russian agent and the whistleblowing activities of Edward Snowden have kept spycraft in the headlines in the twenty-first century. But the heady days of wartime resistance and Cold War espionage are the true Golden Age of spying, and the thirty (well, technically thirty one) individuals featured in this chronological list all lived thrilling lives of intrigue, deception and almost unimaginable danger. From the glamour of Mata Hari to the greed of Aldrich Ames, and from the resilience of Odette Sansom to the ruthlessness of Markus Wolf, here is a selection of the twentieth century’s most fascinating spies and spymasters. YEVNO AZEF (1869-1918) By the turn of the twentieth century, Yevno Azef had risen through the ranks of a number of high profile European revolutionary organisations, taking charge of the combat wing of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in 190