Ian Dear

Spy and Counterspy (eBook, ePUB)

Secret Agents and Double Agents from the Second World War to the Cold War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Spy and Counter-Spy is the final volume in a trilogy that covers the most fascinating examples of clandestien warfare during the Second World War, and the methods and technology employed. It explores Soviet espionage in Britain and the United States that began during the war and continued into the Cold War that followed it. Spy and Counter-Spy not only relates outstanding incidents of spying, both amateur and professional, but the counter-measures that were employed by governments to defeat those involved in espionage. It also shows how a few agents weaving a web of intrigue and deception, that in some cases, has not been completely untangled even today. Revealing the astonishing capacity of both men and women to deceive and betray their countries, their friends, their colleagues, and their lovers. Espionage was called The Great Game by one of its participants, and how it was played by both sides makes it a fascinating subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752479194
• Artikelnr.: 39117339

Autorenporträt

IAN DEAR is an historian with an unusual background in covert warfare. He served in the Royal Marines beofre working in the film and book publishing industries. He became a full time writer in 1979 specializing in military and maritime history and has written a vast number of books on secret operations of the war, including Marines at War, Escape and Evasion and Sabotage and Subversion (both The History Press) and Ten Commando. He spent five years as general editor of The Oxford Companion to World War II and co-edited, with the late Peter Kemp, The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea.