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ISBN: 9781566636971 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago I.R. Dee
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ISBN: 9781668000694 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
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Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin's means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, during, and after the Cold War. There was nothing "unprecedented" about Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. It was simply business as usual, new means used for old ends. The Cold War started long before 1945. But the West fought back after World War II, mounting its own shadow war, using disinformation, vast intelligence networks, and new technologies against the Soviet Union. Spies is an inspiring, engrossing story of the best and worst of mankind: bravery and honor, treachery and betrayal. The narrative shifts across continents and decades, from the freezing streets of St. Petersburg in 1917 to the bloody beaches of Normandy; from coups in faraway lands to present-day Moscow where troll farms, synthetic bots, and weaponized cyber-attacks being launched on the woefully unprepared West. It is about the rise and fall of eastern superpowers: Russia's past and present and the global ascendance of China. Mining hitherto secret archives in multiple languages, Calder Walton shows that the Cold War started earlier than commonly assumed, that it continued even after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, and that Britain and America's clandestine struggle with the Soviet government provides key lessons for countering China today. This fresh reading of history, combined with practical takeaways for our current great power struggles, make Spies a unique and essential addition to the history of the Cold War and the unrolling conflict between the United States and China that will dominate the 21st century.
ESPIONAGE--HISTORY --- INTELLIGENCE SERVICE--USSR--HISTORY --- INTELLIGENCE SERVICES --- INTELLIGENCE SERVICE--USA--HISTORY --- INTELLIGENCE SERVICE--CHINA--HISTORY --- COLD WAR --- WORLD POLITICS --- ESPIONAGE --- Since 1900
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ISBN: 9780805094978 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Time Books/Henry Holt and Company,
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During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world.John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In this book, Stephen Kinzer places their extraordinary lives against the background of American culture and history. He uses the framework of biography to ask: Why does the United States behave as it does in the world?The Brothers explores hidden forces that shape the national psyche, from religious piety to Western movies―many of which are about a noble gunman who cleans up a lawless town by killing bad guys. This is how the Dulles brothers saw themselves, and how many Americans still see their country's role in the world.Propelled by a quintessentially American set of fears and delusions, the Dulles brothers launched violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries from Cuba to Iran.The story of the Dulles brothers is the story of America. It illuminates and helps explain the modern history of the United States and the world.
DULLES, JOHN FOSTER, 1888-1959--BIOGRAPHY --- DULLES, ALLEN, 1893-1969--BIOGRAPHY --- USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS --- STATESMEN--USA--BIOGRAPHY --- CABINET OFFICERS--USA--BIOGRAPHY --- INTELLIGENCE SERVICE--USA--HISTORY --- USA. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY --- Statesmen --- Spies --- Cabinet officers --- Intelligence service --- History --- Dulles, John Foster, --- Dulles, Allen, --- United States. --- Officials and employees --- United States --- Foreign relations
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