SPYING: The Secret History of History
Inbunden bok. Black Dog & Leventhal. 2004. 166 sidor.
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Everyone, at some time in his or her life, fantasizes about being a spy--James Bond, Mata Hari, George Smiley, Maxwell Smart. At the new International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., more than a million visitors have stepped into the secret history of history--and have learned what it is really like to live undercover. This distinctive and fascinating book at once distills and expands upon that experience, with inside information on how spies do their jobs, interviews with operatives, and hundreds of photographs and descriptions of tools of the trade.
Biographies of legendary spies and how they completed their special operations are included, along with timelines showing the developments of bugs, surveillance tools, weapons, and disguises. Letters, maps, examples of disguises, dead drops, and rare photos make spies and their operations from 2000 BC to the present live and breathe on every page.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781579123956
- Titel
- Spying : the secret history of history
- Författare
- International Spy Museum (Washington, D.C.)
- Förlag
- New York : Black Dog & Leventhal
- Utgivningsår
- 2004
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spy business -- Spymasters -- Recruiting the perfect spy -- Building the perfect spy -- Codes, ciphers, and cheap cigars -- Spy shops -- Covers and disguises -- Master spies -- Operations -- Great spy failures -- Traitors -- Red scare -- Berlin: city of spies -- Wet work -- Caught! -- Spies in the sky -- Celebrity spies -- The culture of spies -- Epilogue.