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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995
ISBN 10: 0374158533ISBN 13: 9780374158538
Seller: Giant Giant, Reston, VA, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Good condition.No marking/highlighting.Cover and pages may show some wear.Not Satisfied? Contact us to get a refund.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995
ISBN 10: 0374158533ISBN 13: 9780374158538
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear & toning to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Small stain on title page, otherwise text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
Published by Oxford University Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0192880349ISBN 13: 9780192880345
Seller: Southern Maryland Books, Waldorf, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: New.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
ISBN 10: 0374529450ISBN 13: 9780374529451
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
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Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995
Seller: The Groaning Board, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine first edition hardcover, no writing or marks. Eggshell boards, black back-strap. Jacket Fine, no edge wear, not price-clipped. A groundbreaking work of research, this is the dramatic story of France's intelligence networks, from the "black chambers" of the time of Napoleon to the formation of the SDECE (CIA) and the DST (FBI). 623 pages. M03793.
Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1996
ISBN 10: 033357656XISBN 13: 9780333576564
Book
Hardback. First published in 1996, a history of the French secret services which provides an account of France's spy networks and draws on previously restricted documentary evidence. 1996, First UK edition. A fine copy in a near fine, unclipped d/w which is now in a protective cover.
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Published by Oxford U. P. Oxford 1997, 1997
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st ed. thus stiff wrappers As New octavo xiv + 623pp., appendix, bibliog., index, Very comprehensive, good coverage of WWI. Excellent bibliography.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1995
ISBN 10: 0374158533ISBN 13: 9780374158538
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 623 pp. Spine bumped. Jacket price clipped. The untold history of France's intelligence services, the SDECE and the DST. Heavy book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by London: Macmillan, 1996
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback in Dust Wrapper. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with white titling to the spine) Physically 9½" x 6¼" (1.5 kg); (xiv) 623pp; Index; Includes: List of abbreviations; ISBN: 0-3335-7656-X || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #196222|| Condition: Very Good in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper unevenly faded on the lower panel. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. The contents complete, clean and tight.
Published by NY. 1995. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
white & black 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing so stated. xiv+623p. appendix. bibliography. notes. index. history of france. world war i. world war ii. vietnam wars. algerie francaise. covert operations. espionage. secret societies. conspiracy theory. ~"A groundbreaking work of research, The French Secret Services is the dramatic, previously untold story of France's intelligence networks, from the "black chambers" of the ancien régime and Napoleon to the formation of the SDECE (CIA) and the DST (FBI), from the Dreyfus Affair to the Rainbow Warrior debacle. If the role of intelligence is to reduce uncertainty, the peculiar culture of the French secret services~often oblivious to civil~intelligence relations~hindered France in constructing a rational response to the greatest threat to national survival in the first half of the twentieth century: the German menace. A leader in cryptoanalysis during the Great War, France repeated the mistakes of 1914 in 1940, when General Maurice Gamelin, demoralized by overwhelming German power, set in motion a strategy anchored in the wishful thinking that a dramatic advance into Belgium and Holland would unhinge the German war plan. The rise of the Resistance during the Second World War would lead to the creation of a separate Gaullist intelligence service (BCRA), but, as Porch points out, its efficacy as an instrument of intelligence~gathering and military action was far more limited than Dwight Eisenhower's claim~that the French Resistance was worth SIX divisions during the invasion of France~suggests. Unquestionably, the colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria constitute two of the most traumatic events in the history of post~World War II France. Porch offers an explosive, in~depth look at France's constant underesti mation of Vietminh capabilities~largely a product of racism, he argues~and brilliantly analyzes the disasters of Cao Ban in 1950, in which 6,000 men were lost; the decision to occupy Dien Bien Phu, justifiable from a strategic perspective but eerily reminiscent of 1914 and 1940; and the twisted logic for trafficking in the opium trade. France would withdraw from Indochina only to confront rebellion in Algeria, where the secret services countered terror with terror. Assassinations of Arab political leaders and FLN contacts were sponsored by the SDECE's Service Action; widespread torture became the common means of obtaining information; brazen sabotage resulted in countless civilian casualties and the extermination of entire Algerian villages was sanctioned by none other than G2~the intelligence section of the general staff itself. Special operations often took over from intelligence to make up for strategic failures. Short term gains, as the Ben Barka affair demonstrated, often spawned strategic disasters, threatening France's long term national and international interests. Ranging from diplomatic and military intelligence to covert operations, industrial espionage, and the "dirty tricks" of politicians which continue to play a significant role in French political life today, The French Secret Services explains the sometimes bizarre operations of French intelligence in the context of France's divided political culture and of its self~image as a world power.
Published by MacMillan, London, 1996
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Hard. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Pages bright, boards tidy, light edge wear to dust jacket, spotting on closed edges, spot stain on closed reading edge 3cm. Size: 8vo.
Published by Macmillan London, 1995
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition
Macmillan, London. 1995. First edition. Hardback with DW. Large thick 8vo. Small nick to spine of book and to dust wrapper. Wrapper a little shelf worn. A nice clean copy.
Published by Farmer, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1995
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hard Cover. 1st Edition. 623 paes. Pages and endpapers clean, very good condition. Quarter bound with black cloth over white boards. Red title on spine. Grey illustrated dust jacket price clipped. NF/NF.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995
ISBN 10: 0374158533ISBN 13: 9780374158538
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Louis Agassiz Fuertes et al Illustrations (illustrator). 1st Edition. Stated First Printing. DJ in archival cover.