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  • Exploring Intelligence Archives

    Enquiries into the Secret State

    Serie series Studies in Intelligence
    This edited volume brings together many of the world’s leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence.The book presents a series of documents, nearly all of which are published here for the first time, accompanied by both overview and commentary sections. The central ... Altre info

    75,07 €

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  • A Century of Spies

    Intelligence in the Twentieth Century

    Here is the ultimate inside history of twentieth-century intelligence gathering and covert activity. Unrivalled in its scope and as readable as any spy novel, A Century of Spies travels from tsarist Russia and the earliest days of the British Secret Service to the crises and uncertainties of today's post-Cold War world, offering an unsurpassed overview of the role of modern intelligence in every ... Altre info

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  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 From the First Atom Spy to 7/7 1945-2009

    PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service.The authors look in detail at MI5s role in the post-Cold War world; in particular, they consider its changing role as it took on the main responsibility in countering terrorist threats to ... Altre info

    11,53 €

  • The Changing Face of War

    Combat from the Marne to Iraq

    One of the most influential experts on military history and strategy has now written his magnum opus, an original and provocative account of the past hundred years of global conflict. The Changing Face of War is the book that reveals the path that led to the impasse in Iraq, why powerful standing armies are now helpless against ill-equipped insurgents, and how the security of sovereign nations may ... Altre info

    5,04 €

  • The Black Door

    Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers

    The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith’s Secret Service Bureau to Cameron’s National Security Council.Intelligence can do a prime minister’s dirty work. For more than a century, secret wars have been waged directly from Number 10. They have staved off conflict, defeats and British decline through ... Altre info

    11,01 €

  • The History Thieves

    Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation

    di Ian Cobain ...
    **'As British official records are still "going missing", the significance of Cobain's work only increases' David Olusoga'In an astonishing book, the writer Ian Cobain reveals the mass destruction of records and archives, and the false memory it has left us with' Andrew Marr**In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. As successive ... Altre info

    13,30 €

  • A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900

    Prize-winning British historian tells the story of the English-speaking peoples in the 20th centuryWinston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples ended in 1900. Andrew Roberts, Wolfson History prizewinner has been inspired by Churchill's example to write the story of the 20th century.Churchill wrote: 'Every nation or group of nations has its own tale to tell. Knowledge of the trials ... Altre info

    3,99 €

  • Moscow Rules

    Secret Police, Spies, Sleepers, Assassins

    di Douglas Boyd ...
    Serie series Espionage
    After the guns fell silent in May 1945, the USSR resumed its clandestine warfare against the western democracies. Stalin installed secret police services in the satellite countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Trained by his NKVD officers of the Polish UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVO, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS, Albania's Sigurimi and the Stasi of the German Democratic Republic ... Altre info

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  • Secret Service

    Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America

    Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada – from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations.Drawing on previously classified government records, the ... Altre info

    35,87 €

  • The Fear and the Freedom

    How the Second World War Changed Us

    di Keith Lowe ...
    The international bestselling author of Savage Continent examines how the world has been transformed by World War II.The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as WWII was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since, focusing on the changes that were brought about because of WWII ... Altre info

    13,61 €

  • A Brief History of the Spy

    Modern Spying from the Cold War to the War on Terror

    di Paul Simpson ...
    Serie series Brief Histories
    From the end of the Second World War to the present day, the world has changed immeasurably. The art of spying has changed too, as spies have reacted to changing threats. Here you will find the fascinating stories of real-life spies, both famous and obscure, from either side of the Iron Curtain, along with previously secret details of War on Terror operations.Detailed stories of individual spies ... Altre info

    4,49 €

  • Traitors

    How Australia and its Allies betrayed our ANZACs and let Nazi and Japanese war criminals go free

    di Frank Walker ...
    In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied powers would 'pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers in order that justice may be done'. Nowhere did they say that justice would be selective. But it would prove to be.TRAITORS outlines the treachery of the ... Altre info

    3,99 €