The secret world : a history of intelligence / Christopher Andrew.
Andrew, Christopher M., author.
2018
JF1525.I6 A53 2018eb
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Title
The secret world : a history of intelligence / Christopher Andrew.
Author
Andrew, Christopher M., author.
ISBN
9780300240528 (electronic book)
030024052X (electronic book)
9780300238440
0300238444
Published
New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, 2018.
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 948 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, portraits.
Call Number
JF1525.I6 A53 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.1209
Summary
"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 codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do not understand past mistakes are likely to repeat them. Intelligence is a prime example. At the outbreak of World War I, the grasp of intelligence shown by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was not in the same class as that of George Washington during the Revolutionary War and leading eighteenth-century British statesmen. In this book, the first global history of espionage ever written, distinguished historian Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia--and shows us its relevance."--Page [2] of cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 761-818) and index.
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Introduction: the lost history of global intelligence
In the beginning: spies of the Bible and ancient Egypt from Moses to the Last Supper
Intelligence operations in ancient Greece: myth and reality from Odysseus to Alexander the Great
Intelligence and divination in the Roman Republic
The Art of War and the Arthashastra: how China and India took an early lead over Greece and Rome
The Roman Empire and the Untermenschen
Muhammad and the rise of Islamic intelligence
Inquisitions and counter-subversion
Renaissance Venice and the rise of western intelligence
Ivan the Terrible and the origins of Russian state security
Elizabeth I, Walsingham and the rise of English intelligence
Decline of early Stuart and Spanish intelligence, and the rise of the French Cabinet Noir
Intelligence and regime change in Britain: from the Civil War to the Popish Plot
Intelligence in the era of the Sun King
Codebreakers and spies in the Ancien Régime Europe: from the Hanoverian succession to the Seven Years War
Intelligence and American Independence
French Revolution and the revolutionary wars
Napoleonic Wars
Intelligence and counter-revolution Part I: from the Congress of Vienna to the 1848 revolutions
Intelligence and counter-revolution Part II: from 1848 to the death of Karl Marx
Telegraph, mid-century wars and the 'Great Game'
'Golden Age of Assassination': anarchists, revolutionaries and the black hand, 1880-1914
Great powers and foreign intelligence, 1890-1909
Intelligence and the coming of the First World War
First World War Part I: from the outbreak of the war to the Zimmermann Telegram
First World War Part II: from American intervention to Allied victory
SIGINT and HUMINT between the wars
'Big Three' and Second World War intelligence
Intelligence and victory of the Grand Alliance
Cold War and the intelligence superpowers
'Holy Terror': from the Cold War to 9/11
Conclusion: twenty-first century intelligence in long-term perspective.

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