The unsleeping eye : secret police and their victims / Robert J. Stove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stove, R. J. (Robert James), 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secret service--History.

Secret service.

History.

Physical Description:

367 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2003.

Summary:

The terms "Gestapo" and "KGB" have taken on an ominous meaning in every European language. But while there are many books about espionage, until now very little has been written about the history of secret policing, which played such a grim role in the annals of totalitarian movements of the 20th century. Filled with fascinating portraits of the secret policemen who defined the state of their art--Sir Francis Walsingham, Lavrenti Beria, Heinrich Himmler, J. Edgar Hoover--The Unsleeping Eye takes us inside the dark corners of government.

Contents:

Most dangerous and desperate treason: Elizabethan and Jacobean surveillance 9

The birth of the Modern: French surveillance from Richelieu to Fouche 67

The engineers of human souls: tsarism and communism 113

Show me a no-man not six feet under: German National Socialism 189

You don't fire God: J. Edgar Hoover's eye on America 237.

Notes:

"First published in 2002 as The unsleeping eye : a brief history of secret police and their victims by Duffy and Snellgrove, Sydney, Australia"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-353) and index.

ISBN:

189355466X

OCLC:

51204250