The Secret World [Signed by the Author]; A History of Intelligence

Andrew, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0713993669 / ISBN 13: 9780713993660

Published by Allen Lane, 2018

About this Item

Dust jacket is bright and unmarked with gilt titles, minor creasing to upper spine, unclipped; paper-covered boards, no marks, corners sharp; binding is tight; colour illustrations, no marks aside from Christopher Andrew's signature on title page.; 6.37 X 2.27 X 9.45 inches; 948 pages; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret World [Signed by the Author]; A History of Intelligence
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713993669
• ISBN 13: 9780713993660
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The first mention of espionage in world literature is in the Book of Exodus.'God sent out spies into the land of Canaan'. From there, Christopher Andrew traces the shift in the ancient world from divination to what we would recognize as attempts to gather real intelligence in the conduct of military operations, and considers how far ahead of the West - at that time - China and India were. He charts the development of intelligence and security operations and capacity through, amongst others, Renaissance Venice, Elizabethan England, Revolutionary America, Napoleonic France, right up to sophisticated modern activities of which he is the world's best-informed interpreter. What difference have security and intelligence operations made to course of history? Why have they so often forgotten by later practitioners? This fascinating book provides the answers.

About the Author

Christopher Andrew is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and former Chair of the Faculty of History at Cambridge University. He is also chair of the British Intelligence Study Group, Founding Co-Editor of Intelligence and National Security, former Visiting Professor at Harvard, Toronto and the Australian National University, and a regular presenter of BBC Radio and TV documentaries. His most recent book, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, was a major international bestseller. His fifteen previous books include The Mitrokhin Archive volumes 1 and 2, and a number of path-breaking studies on the use and abuse of secret intelligence in modern history.