Spies Espionage and Covert Operations From Ancient Greece to the Cold War eBook Michael Rank
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From the #1 bestselling author of History's Greatest Generals comes an exciting new book on the greatest spies in history and how their acts of espionage and covert operations changed the course of history.
Whether it is Aeneas Tacticus, who created Western military science; Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster who foiled numerous assassination attempts and forged an international spy network at the dawn of European colonialism; or Richard Sorge, the hard-drinking German spy for the Soviets whose interception of Axis military intelligence prevented the Russian army's collapse in World War II, each of these spies had a major impact on modern society.
This book will explore the lives and times of the ten greatest spies, or spy networks, in history. Some have taken on legendary status, such as Mata Hari, the World War One-era exotic dancer and courtesan who shared the bed chambers of so many French and German officers that she couldn't help but become a double agent. Others spied for pure ideological conviction, such as George Koval, the Iowa-born spy who leaked American nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, accelerating Russia's nuclear program by years and making the Cold War arm's race possible. Still others have attained a near-religious level of adoration -- Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary War-era spy, had a very short career but became America's first martyr and a treasured national symbol.
Whatever their reason for espionage, these spies represented the invisible hand of government power. Their lives were shrouded in mystery -- and many had backgrounds so convoluted that we still do not know their true loyalties, if they ever had any. But despite their enigmatic lives, they were the invisible hand that helped direct the course of history.
Spies Espionage and Covert Operations From Ancient Greece to the Cold War eBook Michael Rank
Often I wondered why the author was putting the information I the book. It dragged on in some places.Likewise, he uses advanced words, but then repeats a lot of the information in further chapters. If we're smarter enough to know the meaning of the words used, shouldn't we be smarter enough to remember a few minutes ago when we read the previous chapters?
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Spies Espionage and Covert Operations From Ancient Greece to the Cold War eBook Michael Rank Reviews
Great learning of how spies in older times worked
Not much to grab your interest here.
This book was ok. Not great, not bad.
Too short and misses a lot of important spies and occurences. Not that book I thought it would be. It basically just scratches the surface.
Developments were slow and their course untidy. Too many references to fictional spies while real life offered more interesting stories. Undeveloped escapes in several cases.
This is a fairly easy read that was eenjoyable to me. I like history and these sort of obscure stories are entertaining for the most part. It did drag in a few places but not much. Given the subject more detail was probably not an option.
I like Michael Rank's books. It is amazing the influence, positive or negative, that one person can have on the course of history,
He writes about things you sorta knew about but really gives you a much more complete picture. Easy read too.
Often I wondered why the author was putting the information I the book. It dragged on in some places.
Likewise, he uses advanced words, but then repeats a lot of the information in further chapters. If we're smarter enough to know the meaning of the words used, shouldn't we be smarter enough to remember a few minutes ago when we read the previous chapters?
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