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In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
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Description for In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence
Paperback. The full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship, ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11 - now told for the first time. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JPSH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 138 x 215 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time. Why did we ever start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years ago. First we put our faith in them to help win wars, then we turned against the bloodshed and expense, and asked our spies instead to deliver peace and security. By the end of World War II, Britain and America were cooperating effectively to that end. At its peak in the 1940s and ... Read more
In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time. Why did we ever start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years ago. First we put our faith in them to help win wars, then we turned against the bloodshed and expense, and asked our spies instead to deliver peace and security. By the end of World War II, Britain and America were cooperating effectively to that end. At its peak in the 1940s and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198701903
SKU
V9780198701903
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About Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is Emeritus Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard, the Free University of Berlin, and Toronto. The founder of the Scottish Association for the Study of America, of which is he the current honorary president, he has also published widely on intelligence history, including The CIA and American Democracy ... Read more
Reviews for In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence
What [In Spies We Trust] does (and very well) is examine American and British cooperation over intelligence, which has underpinned the "special relationship" for a century.
Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph