The Secret World. A History of Intelligence Penguin (370052331)

'The most comprehensive narrative of intelligence compiled ... отсутствует' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Captivating, insightful and masterly' Edward Lucas, The TimesThe history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long historie of intelligence operations has bear largely forgotten. Впервые mention espionage in world literature is the Book of Exodus. Из них, Christopher Andrew traces shift v ancient world from divination to what would recognize atempts to gather real intelligence in the conduct of military operations, and considers how through the West - that time - China and India were. Я написал развитие intelligence and security operations and capacity through, amongst others, Renaissance Venice, Elizabethan England, Revolutionary America, Napoleonic France, right up to sophisticated modern activities of which he is the world's b. What difference have security and intelligence operations к course of history? Why have they so often forgotten последние практикующие? Этот fascinating book provides the answers.