The Secret World: A History of Intelligence (Paperback)
Christopher Andrew (author)Published: 04/07/2019
'... comprehesive, digestable and startling... a stellar achievment' - The Times
God sent out spies into the land of Canaan.
The first mention of espionage in world literature is in the Book of Exodus. From there, Christopher Andrew traces shifts in the ancient world from divination to what we would recognise 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? This fascinating book provides the answers.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780140285321
Number of pages: 960
Weight: 698 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 42 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'The Secret World is both brilliant in its sweep and near-miraculous in the detail and confident judgements provided on two and a half millenia of spying.' - The Financial Times
'To make such a work accurate, comprehesive, digestable and startling, and all in a single volume, is a stellar achievment' - The Times
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