The secret war : treason, espionage, and modern fiction / Eva Horn ; translated from the German by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.
Horn, Eva.; Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey, 1960-
2013
PR830.S65 H6713 2013 (Mapit)
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Title The secret war : treason, espionage, and modern fiction / Eva Horn ; translated from the German by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.
Author Horn, Eva.
Uniform Title Geheime Krieg. English
ISBN 9780810127630 paperback
0810127636 paperback
Imprint Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description x, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm
Call Number PR830.S65 H6713 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.087209
Note "Originally published in German as Der geheime Krieg: Verrat, Spionage und moderne Fiktion in 2007 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey, 1960-
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Translating betrayal: signpost for the secret war / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
Introduction: treason, secrets, and fiction
Part 1. Borges
a poetics of treason
Part 2. Treason and secrecy in the modern age
Chapter 1. The age of treason
Chapter 2. Logics of political secrecy
Chapter 3. Secret intelligence
Part 3. The great game
Chapter 4. Strategic space
Chapter 5. Local knowledge
Chapter 6. The partisan, the traitor
Part 4. Spies, male and female: the First World War and the war of the sexes
Part 5. Agents of the world revolution
Chapter 7. "Bertolt Brecht, minstrel of the GPU"
Part 6. Cold War
Chapter 8. War games: war as hypothesis
Chapter 9. The human factor
Part 7. State paranoia
Part 8. Invisible government: JFK
Part 9. After 9/11
Chapter 10. The future of enmity: nets, swarms, viruses
Conclusion.

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