THE SECOND OLDEST PROFESSION: THE SPY AS PATRIOT, BUREAUCRAT, FANTASIST AND WHORE
Language: English
Published by Pan Books, 1987
- Softcover
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- Title
- THE SECOND OLDEST PROFESSION: THE SPY AS PATRIOT, BUREAUCRAT, FANTASIST AND WHORE
- Author
- Phillip Knightley
- Publisher
- Pan Books
- Publication year
- 1987
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0330299638
- ISBN 13
- 9780330299633
- Illustrator
- With B&W Illustrations
- Seller catalogs
- (Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare @ militaryhistorybooks.com )
The spy is as old as history but spy services are quite new. Britain founded the first, Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, in dubious circumstances in 1909. Others followed until no country considered itself a nation unless it had a corps of spies.
The biggest and most expensive is America's Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, formed as recently as 1947. The CIA's principle enemy was the Soviet Union's KGB, and the clash of these two giants has been the thrilling stuff of history, novels, films and plays.
In assessing the real role of the spy, Phillip Knightley brilliantly takes all the real characters of the spies themselves - Mata Hari, Sidney Reilly, Richard Sorge, Kim Philby, George Blake, James Jesus Angleton, Ruth Kuczinsky, the Rosenbergs - and answers the crucial question. Did they make any difference to the course of history? Or was spying the biggest confidence trick of our time?
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Military History Books was founded many years ago in London and, several iterations later, it's now in the capable and expert hands of Armed Forces Veterans based in the sunny South-West of England. The 7,000+ book inventory will be available on AbeBooks early in 2025 and one of the first tasks will be to append photographs and full descriptions to as many of the listings as possible; a huge task, as we're sure you'll agree.
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