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The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century

Categorie	Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer	#329041-ZA12
Titel	The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century
Auteur	Knightley, Phillip
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Pimlico
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	1844130916
ISBN13	9781844130917
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The spy is as old as history but spy services are quite new. Britain founded the first, Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, in dubious circumstances in 1909. Others followed until no country considered itself a nation unless it had a corps of spies. The biggest and most expensive is America's Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, formed as recently as 1947. The CIA's principle enemy was the Soviet Union's KGB, and the clash of these two giants has been the thrilling stuff of history, novels, films and plays. In assessing the real role of the spy, Phillip Knightley brilliantly takes all the real characters of the spies themselves - Mata Hari, Sidney Reilly, Richard Sorge, Kim Philby, George Blake, James Jesus Angleton, Ruth Kuczinsky, the Rosenbergs - and answers the crucial question... (Lees verder). Did they make any difference to the course of history? Or was spying the biggest confidence trick of our time?
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Conditie	Goed
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