Author : Scarlet Ingstad
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2021-02-24
Category :
ISBN :
The Battle of Yorktown is known as the final decisive battle of the Revolutionary War. Many people know of the heroics displayed by George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, and the Marquis de Lafayette...but very few know about a man named James Armistead. Without James, the war might very well have been lost.All proceeds from this novella are donated to Mount Vernon to continue historic preservation and education efforts.
Author : Clive Gifford
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781416971139
Spies Revealed uncovers the fascinating truth about real-life secret agents and the top-secret organizations they work for. From spymasters to moles, defectors to double agents, and sleepers to disguise experts, you'll discover who's who in espionage. See how real spies measure up to fictional secret agents. Read about secret codes and ciphers, cunning spy techniques, dead drops and special spy equipment. You can even become a spy yourself by following special missions that show you essential spy skills, including how to talk like a spy, how to track a target without being detected, and how to send secret messages. From history's most famous spies to the future of spy technology - including robo-spies and cyborg counterespionage - this fact-packed book is the ultimate guide to the mysterious world of spying.
Author : Priya Satia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2008-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 019971598X
At the dawn of the twentieth century, British intelligence agents began to venture in increasing numbers to the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire, a region of crucial geopolitical importance spanning present-day Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. They were drawn by the twin objectives of securing the land route to India and finding adventure and spiritualism in a mysterious and ancient land. But these competing desires created a dilemma: how were they to discreetly and patriotically gather facts in a region they were drawn to for its legendary inscrutability and by the promise of fame and escape from Britain? In this groundbreaking book, Priya Satia tracks the intelligence community's tactical grappling with this problem and the myriad cultural, institutional, and political consequences of their methodological choices during and after the Great War. She tells the story of how an imperial state in thrall to the cultural notions of equivocal agents and beset by an equally captivated and increasingly assertive mass democracy invented a wholly new style of "covert empire" centered on the world's first brutal aerial surveillance regime in Iraq. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources--from the fictional to the recently declassified--this book explains how Britons reconciled genuine ethical scruples with the actual violence of their Middle Eastern empire. As it vividly demonstrates how imperialism was made fit for an increasingly democratic and anti-imperial world, what emerges is a new interpretation of the military, cultural, and political legacies of the Great War and of the British Empire in the twentieth century. Unpacking the romantic fascination with "Arabia" as the land of espionage, Spies in Arabia presents a stark tale of poetic ambition, war, terror, and failed redemption--and the prehistory of our present discontents.
Author : David Lavery
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813181496
The Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows gaining large, mainstream audiences. By exploring the defining characteristics of cult TV, The Essential Cult TV Reader traces the development of this once obscure form and explains how cult TV achieved its current status as legitimate television. The essays explore a wide range of cult programs, from early shows such as Star Trek, The Avengers, Dark Shadows, and The Twilight Zone to popular contemporary shows such as Lost, Dexter, and 24, addressing the cultural context that allowed the development of the phenomenon. The contributors investigate the obligations of cult series to their fans, the relationship of camp and cult, the effects of DVD releases and the Internet, and the globalization of cult TV. The Essential Cult TV Reader answers many of the questions surrounding the form while revealing emerging debates on its future.
Author : Howard Brinkley
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 162107515X
They live in secret and their lives are fascinating. Howard Brinkley takes you inside the history of spying in this bundled anthology of three of his top-selling histories. The following books are bundled together at a discounted price in this anthology: *Spies of the American Revolution *Spies of the Civil War *Russian Espionage
Author : James M. Olson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1647121671
In To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence, former Chief of CIA counterintelligence James M. Olson offers a wake-up call for the American public, showing how the US is losing the intelligence war and how our country can do a better job of protecting its national security and trade secrets.
Author : Thomas J. Ryan
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1611211786
As intelligence experts have long asserted, ÒInformation in regard to the enemy is the indispensable basis of all military plans.Ó Despite the thousands of books and articles written about Gettysburg, Tom RyanÕs groundbreaking Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign: How the Critical Role of Intelligence Impacted the Outcome of LeeÕs Invasion of the North, June - July 1863 is the first to offer a unique and incisive comparative study of intelligence operations during what many consider the warÕs decisive campaign. Based upon years of indefatigable research, the author evaluates how Gen. Robert E. Lee used intelligence resources, including cavalry, civilians, newspapers, and spies to gather information about Union activities during his invasion of the North in June and July 1863, and how this information guided LeeÕs decision-making. Simultaneously, Ryan explores the effectiveness of the Union Army of the PotomacÕs intelligence and counterintelligence operations. Both Maj. Gens. Joe Hooker and George G. Meade relied upon cavalry, the Signal Corps, and an intelligence staff known as the Bureau of Military Information that employed innovative concepts to gather, collate, and report vital information from a variety of sources. The result is an eye-opening, day-by-day analysis of how and why the respective army commanders implemented their strategy and tactics, with an evaluation of their respective performance as they engaged in a battle of wits to learn the enemyÕs location, strength, and intentions. Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign is grounded upon a broad foundation of archival research and a firm understanding of the theater of operations that specialists will especially value. Everyone will appreciate reading about a familiar historic event from a perspective that is both new and enjoyable. One thing is certain: no one will close this book and look at the Gettysburg Campaign in the same way again.
Author : Allan Hepburn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300148488
'Intrigue' examines the tradition of the spy narrative in the 20th century, setting the historical contexts for the main themes of the genre, such as the Cambridge spy ring & the Profumo Affair. Hepburn offers a systematic theory of the conventions & attractions of espionage fiction.
Author : Matteo Faini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000170101
This book delves into the secret histories of the CIA, the FBI, and British and Italian intelligence to study how policymakers can control intelligence agencies and when these agencies will try to remove their own government. For every government they serve, intelligence agencies are both a threat and a necessity. They often provide vital information for national security, but the secrets they possess can also be used against their own masters. This book introduces subversion paradox theory to provide a social scientific explanation of the unequal power dynamic resulting from an often fraught relationship between agencies and their ‘masters’. The author also makes a case for the existence of ‘deep state’ conspiracies, including in highly developed democracies, and cautions those who denounce their existence that trying to control intelligence by politicizing it is likely to backfire. An important intervention in the field of intelligence studies, this book will be indispensable for intelligence professionals and policymakers in understanding and bridging the cultural divide between these two groups. It will also make for a fascinating and informative read to scholars and researchers of diplomacy, foreign policy, international relations, strategic and defence studies, security studies, political studies, policymaking and comparative politics.
Author : Timothy McCarthy
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1595586229
Presents essays and other writings from the famed historian, including his writings on the civil rights and antiwar movements, and provides historical and biographical context for each written work.
