Translated primary-source documents & field manuals

Original documents and field manuals — translated, preserved, and published for readers who want the source itself.

Primary sources and practical manuals from the historical record, translated into English and available in paperback. New titles added regularly.

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Strategy & Field Manuals

Original manuals on influence, persuasion, strategy, and the physical realities of special operations.

8 titles →

Intelligence & Espionage Tradecraft

First English translations of internal Soviet and KGB documents — counterintelligence methodology, agent operations, and investigative technique, classified “Top Secret” at the time of issue.

22 titles →

Raison d'État & Statecraft

The seventeenth-century canon of reason-of-state — now in their first complete English translations.

9 titles →

Biography & History

The life of Joseph Fouché — Napoleon's Minister of Police — in first English translations.

4 titles →

Philosophy

Classic works of argument and persuasion.

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About Octant Press

Octant Press is an international publishing house with a focused catalog: rigorous, evidence-based books on influence and communication, and first English translations of intelligence tradecraft, reason-of-state classics, and works of history — preserved and made available in paperback. No gatekeepers, no bloat, just the material.

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