Espionage and secret services

Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction'Spellbinding .

Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors-and it assesses the potential for realizing any hopes we might have for reforming intelligence and espionage.

Raul Villamia's childhood in Cuba revolved around baseball and bloodshed.

The United States has struggled to define its approach to what has been called the "e;information battlefield"e; since the information era began.

This is the true story of the Englishman allegedly freed from a French prison after meeting John Amery, the treacherous son of a Cabinet minister, and sent back to Britain to spy - only to be caught, prosecuted and hanged as a traitor.

Sean Hartnett grew up in Cork in the 1970s where he observed the worst of the northern Troubles with fascination.

With the end of the Cold War and the dawning of a new century, the U.

In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign of security .

Russland führt einen Informationskrieg gegen den Westen.

All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively transparent governments.

A New York Times Notable BookWinner of 2022 Lionel Gelber PrizeThe first authoritative history of America's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners.

In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq.

Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.

Born into a Sephardic Jewish immigrant family, Dr.

'Pulse-pounding' Sinclair McKay | 'Truly masterful' Damien Lewis | 'Who needs spy fiction, when fact can provide as thrilling a story as this?

In Beauty Like The Night, Joanna Bourne, 'master of romance and suspense' (Teresa Medeiros) returns to the French Revolution, with a stirring tale of intrigue, espionage, and irresistible attraction.

Why are some multiethnic countries more prone to civil violence than others?

You've already broken codes in Sinclair McKay's bestselling Bletchley Park Brainteasers, now it's time to pit your wits against the secret heroes of MI5 and MI6 and find out if YOU have what it takes to be a spy!

From the moment man learned how to ascend off the ground, the strategic significance of air intelligence became apparent.

Maochun Yu tells the story of the intelligence activities of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in China during World War II.

Risk, Threats and the New Normal explains the new political and technological developments that created new domestic national security threats against the nation and the people of the United States.

There has been a shift in the way that we understand the forces behind imperialism.

By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic.

Based on hundreds of interviews with CIA officials, national security experts, and legislators, as well as a thorough culling of the archival record, America's Secret Power offers an illuminating and up-to-date picture of the CIA, stressing the difficult balance between the genuine needs of national security and the protection of individual liberties.

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) encompasses the various disciplines of wireless interception, cryptanalysis, communications intelligence, electronic intelligence, direction-finding, and traffic analysis.

Informed by the latest research in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics, El espaol y la lingstica aplicada responds to the central questions that lie at the heart of learning Spanish as a second or foreign language.

Nearly forty female agents were sent out by the French section of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War.

Dickie Metcalfe was not your typical secret agent, but he was larger than life in more ways than one.

Essays that reflect the changing climate of the United States and the world from “perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” (The New York Times Book Review).

Truth to Power, the first-ever history of the U.

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, led to one of the most brutal campaigns of World War II: of the estimated 70 million people who died in World War II, over 30 million died on the Eastern Front.

The history of secret intelligence, like secret intelligence itself, is fraught with difficulties surrounding both the reliability and completeness of the sources, and the motivations behind their release-which can be the product of ongoing propaganda efforts as well as competition among agencies.

In addition to being a major area of research within International Relations, peacebuilding and statebuilding is a major policy area within the UN and other international and regional organizations.

A Raid on the Red Sea is the thrilling, real-life tale of illegal gun-running in the Middle East.

Tasked with destroying as many British merchant ships as possible, German aristocrat Felix von Luckner and his ship the Seeadler succeeded in spectacular fashion.

Truth to Power, the first-ever history of the U.

The Threat From Within examines what drives Al Qaeda-inspired radicalization to violence, how to detect it, and how to confront it.

Gregory Treverton, former US National Intelligence council head, demonstrates how government intelligence must change.

"e;Broman's true tales of putting his life on the line recruiting and running spies in a dozen countries are the stuff of action movies.

John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century.

"e;There is a lack of quiet in Sylvia that craves for action.

This book is an in-depth examination of the relations between Ireland and the former East Germany between the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

An indispensable set of interviews on foreign and domestic issues with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival, "e;America's most useful citizen.

How is it possible for an agency of the United States government to be exempt from providing what the US Constitutions Appropriations Clause describes as a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money?

Tasked with destroying as many British merchant ships as possible, German aristocrat Felix von Luckner and his ship the Seeadler succeeded in spectacular fashion.