The Second Oldest Profession - Softcover

Knightley, Phillip

 
9781844130917: The Second Oldest Profession
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1844130916 ISBN 13: 9781844130917
Verlag: Pimlico, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Phillip Knightley is the author of ten non-fiction books. He is best known for The Second Oldest Profession and The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker. He has met nearly every spy chief on both sides in the spy Cold War and spent one week with the British traitor Kim Philby in Moscow in 1988 debriefing him just before he died. Knightley has also dined with several heads of the KGB, several chiefs of the British Secret Intelligence Service, the Inspector General of the CIA, and the director of its anti-Soviet operations. For twenty years he was a special correspondent of The Sunday Times and a member of the Insight Team. He has served as a representative in Europe for the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and twice been nominated Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. He spends most of him time writing books and articles for publications around the world. He lives in Britain, India and Australia.

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Verlag
Pimlico
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1844130916
ISBN 13 
9781844130917
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
528
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