Spying - The Secret History of History: Dangerous Missions, Great Escapes, Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence, Hidden Weapons, Smuggling, Tools and Techniques of The Trade, Codes and Code-Breakers, Surveillance, Disguises and Secret Identitets, Dossiers and Documents, Enemies and Allies and Much Moore

Here, in Spying: The Secret History of History, take us behind the scenes and shows us how the world of espionage really works in this fully illustrated, informationpacked history of espionage throughout ages and across the globe. Learn about how, in biblical times, Moses sent out spies to scout the territory ahead before leading his people into the Promised Land. Or how, in 1861, during the Civil War Rose 0'Neal Greenhow passed information to Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard concerning the northern army's plans for its campaign in the South. Her information granted the Confederates victory at the first battle of Bull Run. Read about twentieth-century spy operations that have changed the course of modern history, including Operation OVERLORD, which precipitated the Allied landing on the beaches of Normandy and is considered one of the world's greatest military deceptions. Sypying is full of and little-known details about every aspect of the second oldest profession, from biographies of the world's most ingenious spies to trade secrets behind the perfect cover and disguise. Learn how to crack actual codes and ciphers. Get a glimpse inside the nefarious world of what the Soviets termed "wet work" - the sometimes necessary need to assassinate an enemy. Discover thr myriad complexities behind the greatest spy operations known to mankind, as well as the greatest failures. Find out why the truth about the spy game can be stranger than what we read about and see in a John LeCarré novel or a James Bond film. Photographs of artifacts, documents and letters, weapons, surveillance tools and disguises make spies and their operations from 2000 BC to the present live and breathe on every page.
Dek. laminatbd. med sk.omsl. International Spy Museum, Washington, 2004, 166 sid.

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