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The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada.
Those who do not understand past mistakes are likely to repeat them. Intelligence is a prime example. At the outbreak of World War I, the grasp of intelligence shown by US President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was not in the same class as that of George Washington during the Revolutionary War and leading 18th-century British statesmen.
In this book, distinguished historian Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia - and shows its relevance today.
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Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes, and to sow havoc behind the fronts. In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance, to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Better read than listened to
- De B. In -t Veld en 03-25-17
De: Max Hastings
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Spying in America
- Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War
- De: Michael J. Sulick
- Narrado por: Kevin Pierce
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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Can you keep a secret? Maybe you can, but the United States government cannot. Since the birth of our country, nations large and small, from Russia and China to Ghana and Ecuador, have stolen the most precious secrets of the United States. Written by Michael Sulick, former director of CIA's clandestine service, Spying in America presents a history of more than 30 espionage cases inside the United States.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good history, bad analysis
- De Crus458 en 02-20-21
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- De: Stephen Kotkin
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 38 h y 47 m
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Volume One of Stalin begins and ends in January 1928 as Stalin boards a train bound for Siberia, about to embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He is now the ruler of the largest country in the world, but a poor and backward one, far behind the great capitalist countries in industrial and military power, encircled on all sides. In Siberia, Stalin conceives of the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book But First Time Listener Beware
- De Nostromo en 03-23-15
De: Stephen Kotkin
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Phantom Terror
- Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789 - 1848
- De: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 22 h y 30 m
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Phantom Terror explores this troubled, fascinating period, when politicians and cultural leaders from Edmund Burke to Mary Shelley were forced to choose sides and either support or resist the counterrevolutionary spirit embodied in the newly omnipotent central states. The turbulent political situation that coalesced during this era would lead directly to the revolutions of 1848 and to the collapse of order in World War I.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Mike Johnson en 07-14-15
De: Adam Zamoyski
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The Sleepwalkers
- How Europe Went to War in 1914
- De: Christopher Clark
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 24 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 778
The Sleepwalkers is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting take on a complex problem
- De Steve en 01-24-15
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Stalin
- New Biography of a Dictator
- De: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 18 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 338
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 302
This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an evil genius, Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies about specific events in the dictator's life while assembling many hundreds of previously unknown letters, memos, reports, and diaries into a comprehensive, compelling narrative of a life that altered the course of world history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it, but wouldn't want to live it
- De Neil en 01-12-20
De: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, y otros
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The Brothers
- John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
- De: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrado por: David Cochran Heath
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,818
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,605
John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In this book, Stephen Kinzer places their extraordinary lives against the backdrop ofAmerican culture and history. He uses the framework of biography to ask: Why does the United States behave as it does in the world?
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4 out of 5 stars
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A duel biography
- De Jean en 09-26-14
De: Stephen Kinzer
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A Peace to End All Peace
- The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
- De: David Fromkin
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 23 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 489
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 421
The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. Author David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still A Great Book On The Topic
- De Nostromo en 02-03-19
De: David Fromkin
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Heinrich Himmler
- The SS, Gestapo, His Life and Career
- De: Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 267
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Authors Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, notable biographers of the World War II German leaders Joseph Goebbels and Herman Goring, delve into the life of one of the most sinister, clever, and successful of all the Nazi leaders: Heinrich Himmler. As the head of the feared SS, Himler supervised the extermination of millions. Here is the story of how a seemingly ordinary boy grew into an obsessive and superstitious man who ventured into herbalism, astrology, and homeopathic medicine before finally turning to the “science” of racial purity and the belief in the superiority of the Aryan people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A new and insightful look at a Monster
- De Doc Pearce en 07-26-13
De: Roger Manvell, y otros
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Spymaster
- Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
- De: Tennent H. Bagley
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 777
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 695
From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus. Rising through its ranks through hard work and keen understanding of how the spy and political games are played, he “handled” American and British defectors, recruited Western operatives as double agents, served as a ranking officer at the East Berlin and Vienna KGB bureaus, and tackled special assignments from the Kremlin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An brilliant personal Cold War perspective
- De Iamnotaspy en 01-09-15
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Operation Snow
- How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harbor
- De: John Koster
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 279
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 254
On December 7, 1941, the nation of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and prompted the United States’ entry into the bloodiest war in human history. Americans have long debated the cause of the bombing; many have argued that the attack was a brilliant Japanese military coup or a failure of US intelligence agencies or even a conspiracy of the Roosevelt administration. But despite the attention historians have paid to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the truth about that fateful day has remained a mystery - until now.
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1 out of 5 stars
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PUT IT IN THE FILE BLAMING FDR FOR PEARL HARBOR
- De Ron en 11-21-20
De: John Koster
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Hitler's Hangman
- The Life of Heydrich
- De: Robert Gerwarth
- Narrado por: Napoleon Ryan
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 423
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Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the 20th century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the "Final Solution," Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A different perspective on the Third Reich
- De Robyn en 11-18-16
De: Robert Gerwarth
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A Man Called Intrepid
- The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero Whose Spy Network and Secret Diplomacy Changed the Course of History
- De: William Stevenson
- Narrado por: David McAlister
- Duración: 21 h y 27 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 481
A Man Called Intrepid is the account of the world’s first integrated intelligence operation and of its master, William Stephenson. Codenamed INTREPID by Winston Churchill, Stephenson was charged with establishing and running a vast, worldwide intelligence network to challenge the terrifying force of Nazi Germany. Nothing less than the fate of Britain and the free world hung in the balance as INTREPID covertly set about stalling the Nazis by any means necessary.
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3 out of 5 stars
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You have to wonder ...
- De Mike From Mesa en 04-15-14
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The Pope at War
- The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
- De: David I. Kertzer
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 250
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown and festered, making Pius XII one of the most controversial popes in Church history, especially now as the Vatican prepares to canonize him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Intellectually dishonest
- De ReviewAmazon384 en 04-08-23
De: David I. Kertzer
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The Venona Secrets
- Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors
- De: Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel
- Narrado por: Jim McCance
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 111
The Venona Files are several intercepted communiques between the Soviet Union and American Communists following WWII. Some historians and journalists are starting to regard the Cold-War-era American Communist Party as nothing more than a quaint club of polite if misguided ideologues. In The Venona Secrets, Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel intend to create a new impression of treacherous Americans "who willfully gave their primary allegiance to a foreign power, the USSR."
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Stalin Burreau in America
- De Doug en 07-09-13
De: Herbert Romerstein, y otros
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Agent Sniper
- The Cold War Superagent and the Ruthless Head of the CIA
- De: Tim Tate
- Narrado por: Tim Tate
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For two and a half years at the end of the 1950s, as a Lt. Colonel at the top of Poland’s espionage service, he smuggled more than 5,000 top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military documents, as well as 160 rolls of microfilm, out from behind the Iron Curtain. In January 1961, he abandoned his wife and children and made a dramatic defection across divided Berlin with his East German mistress to the safety of American territory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very entertaining cold war spy story
- De Jason en 12-18-21
De: Tim Tate