The secret world : a history of intelligence / Christopher Andrew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrew, Christopher M., author.

Series:

Henry L. Stimson lectures, Yale University.

The Henry L. Stimson Lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--History.

Intelligence service.

Espionage--History.

Espionage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 896 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some colour), portraits

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first-ever detailed, comprehensive history of intelligence, from Moses and Sun Tzu to the present day 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 U.S. 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 eighteenth-century British statesmen. In this book, the first global history of espionage ever written, distinguished historian Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia-and shows us its relevance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: The Lost History of Global Intelligence

1. In the Beginning: Spies of the Bible and Ancient Egypt from Moses to the Last Supper

2. Intelligence Operations in Ancient Greece: Myth and Reality from Odysseus to Alexander the Great

3. Intelligence and Divination in the Roman Republic

4. The Art of War and the Arthashastra: How China and India Took an Early Lead over Greece and Rome

5. The Roman Empire and the Untermenschen

6. Muhammad and the Rise of Islamic Intelligence

7. Inquisitions and Counter- Subversion

8. Renaissance Venice and the Rise of Western Intelligence

9. Ivan the Terrible and the Origins of Russian State Security

10. Elizabeth I, Walsingham and the Rise of English Intelligence

11. The Decline of Early Stuart and Spanish Intelligence, and the Rise of the French Cabinet Noir

12. Intelligence and Regime Change in Britain: From the Civil War to the Popish Plot

13. Intelligence in the Era of the Sun King

14. Codebreakers and Spies in Ancien Régime Europe: From the Hanoverian Succession to the Seven Years War

15. Intelligence and American Independence

16. The French Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars

17. The Napoleonic Wars

18. Intelligence and Counter- Revolution. Part I: From the Congress of Vienna to the 1848 Revolutions

19. Intelligence and Counter- Revolution. Part II: From 1848 to the Death of Karl Marx

20. The Telegraph, Mid-Century Wars and the 'Great Game'

21. 'The Golden Age of Assassination': Anarchists, Revolutionaries and the Black Hand, 1880- 1914

22. The Great Powers and Foreign Intelligence, 1890- 1909

23. Intelligence and the Coming of the First World War

24. The First World War. Part I: From the Outbreak of War to the Zimmermann Telegram

25. The First World War. Part 2: From American Intervention to Allied Victory

26. SIGINT and HUMINT between the Wars

27. The 'Big Three' and Second World War Intelligence

28. Intelligence and the Victory of the Grand Alliance

29. The Cold War and the Intelligence Superpowers

30. 'Holy Terror': From the Cold War to 9/11

Conclusion: Twenty- First- Century Intelligence in Long- Term Perspective

Bibliography

Abbreviations Used in the Notes and References

Notes

Acknowledgements

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780300240528 (electronic book)

030024052X (electronic book)

OCLC:

1050870997