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Spying Through a Glass Darkly
Alvarez, David; Mark, Eduard
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Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; HBTW; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
For the period between World War II and the full onset of the Cold War, histories of American intelligence seem to go dark. Yet in those years a little known clandestine organization, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), emerged from the remnants of wartime American intelligence to lay the groundwork for what would become the CIA and, in ways revealed here for the first time, conduct its own secret warof espionage and political intrigue in postwar Europe. Telling the full story of this early and surprisingly effective espionage arm ofthe United States, Spying through a Glass Darkly brings a critical chapter ... Read more
For the period between World War II and the full onset of the Cold War, histories of American intelligence seem to go dark. Yet in those years a little known clandestine organization, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), emerged from the remnants of wartime American intelligence to lay the groundwork for what would become the CIA and, in ways revealed here for the first time, conduct its own secret warof espionage and political intrigue in postwar Europe. Telling the full story of this early and surprisingly effective espionage arm ofthe United States, Spying through a Glass Darkly brings a critical chapter ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Kansas United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700621927
SKU
V9780700621927
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About Alvarez, David; Mark, Eduard
David Alvarez is professor emeritus ofpolitics at Saint Mary’s College of Californiaand a former scholar-in-residence at theNational Security Agency. He has publishedmany books, including three with Kansas:Secret Messages: Codebreaking and AmericanDiplomacy, 1930–1945; Spies in the Vatican:Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to theHolocaust; and The Pope’s Soldiers: A MilitaryHistory of the Modern Vatican. At the time of his death in ... Read more
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