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Published by Harvill, HarperCollins Publishers, Limited, 1987
ISBN 10: 0002721244ISBN 13: 9780002721240
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Collins Harvill, 1987
ISBN 10: 0002721244ISBN 13: 9780002721240
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 2.25.
Published by Brand: The Harvill Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0002721244ISBN 13: 9780002721240
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Winks, Robin W.
Published by Collins Harvill, 1987
ISBN 10: 0002721244ISBN 13: 9780002721240
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: Fair. Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within 2.25.
Published by Collins Harvill, 1987
ISBN 10: 0002721244ISBN 13: 9780002721240
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book.
Published by Collins Harvill 1987, 1987
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Collins London 1987, 1987
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket Very Good octavo 607pp., bibliog., index, Story of the Association between American Academia and its Intelligence services. Provides some explanation for the undisciplined and strategically disastrous nature of those agencies. Tape on endpapers o/w VG.
Published by Collins Harvill, 1987
ISBN 10: 0002721244ISBN 13: 9780002721240
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Fair. Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library. 2.25.
Published by Collins Harvill, London, 1987
ISBN 10: 0002721244ISBN 13: 9780002721240
Seller: killarneybooks, Inagh, CLARE, Ireland
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Oversized hardcover, 607 pages, b&w photos (pages 231-246), NOT ex-library. Weight over 1 kg (please note: extra shipping will be required). Book is clean, age-yellowed (free of foxing and age-spotting), with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. A faint discolouration to the side of the front blank endpaper. Gently bent tip of the outer corner of a portion of leaves. Unclipped dust jacket with two short corner-tears, a 1-inch closed horizontal incision, a few scratches. -- This book began as a casual conversation on the campus of Yale University. It ended as the fullest and best investigative account by an accredited historian into how the OSS was established, by whom, and what it achieved. Based on previously unpublished private papers, recently declassified documents, plus interviews with more than two hundred former OSS and CIA agents, Cloak & Gown explores the underlying bonds between the world of the university and that of the intelligence community. In this unique approach to the workings of secret operations, the book examines the real careers of men and women from university backgrounds - the campus, the library, the professors and athletes, the theorists and critics - as they are embroiled in the task of defending America. As a result, the reader comes to understand the conflicts, complexities, successes, and failures that are inherent when a democracy is confronted by the issues created by a need for intelligence. As Cloak & Gown shows, the paternity of the CIA by the OSS is clear. Of the thirteen thousand men and women who worked for the OSS, a great number helped establish the CIA. Of these, Yale men, and a few women, were numerous. Overall, the OSS recruited from the Ivy League universities, because those universities continued to require the ability to speak a foreign language for graduation, and from the largest of the state universities as well. Initially the American spy game was peopled largely by scholars. Why? Before Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy had nearly no maps, d information on any of the Pacific islands over which war with the Japanese might be fought. Only scholars could provide what was missing. The same was true in preparing to fight in North Africa, in the Middle East, and even in Europe. By the end of the war the OSS had achieved the finest index of strategic information in the world and, by doing so, changed the face of university education in America. From starting behind all major nations, at the end of the war only the British and Soviet forces could compete with the OSS. Here are intimate portraits of the men and women of the OSS. They included safecrackers, experts in Azerbaijani, the blue blood of society (Paul Mellon, David Bruce, John P. Marquand, Jr., William Vanderbilt), and the bartender from the Yale Club. Its critics called it "Oh So Social." Its admirers called it "Oh So Secret." Its story has never been told so well - until now. -- The book contains the fullest biography to date of James Angleton, the CIA's brilliant head of counter-intelligence; it unravels the story behind the publication of J.C. Masterman's The Double Cross System; it unlocks the secrets of Norman Holmes Pearson, one-time professor at Yale and head of X-2 (counterintelligence) in London during the Second World War. This study is therefore both valuable for its original work, filling as it does many gaps in the history of western intelligence and intensely readable. -- Contents: 1. The University: Recruiting Ground 2. The Campus: Langer, Lewis, Kent & Co. 3. The Library: Joseph Toy Curtiss 4. The Athlete: Donald Downes 5. The Professor: Norman Holmes Pearson 6. The Theorist: James Jesus Angleton 7. The Alumni: Returning to the Campus; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Published by Collins London 1987, 1987
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket Near Fine octavo 607pp., bibliog., index, Story of the Association between American Academia and its Intelligence services. Provides some explanation for the undisciplined and strategically disastrous nature of those agencies. Owner's stamp o/w VG.
Published by Collins Harvill, 1987
ISBN 10: 0002721244ISBN 13: 9780002721240
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Collins Harvill, 1987
ISBN 10: 0002721244ISBN 13: 9780002721240
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Collins Harvill, 1987
ISBN 10: 0002721244ISBN 13: 9780002721240
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: new. New.
Published by Collins Harvill 1987, 1987
Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, United Kingdom
First Edition
Paper browned else VG copy in scruffy dustjacket. 1st edition, 1st issue. Harold Wilson's copy. Provenance - Hansons Auctioneers - A Prime Minister's Life - The Collection of Harold & Mary Wilson - Friday 10 May 2019 ISBN 0002721244.