Intelligence officer (33 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. viii, 270. xiv pp publisher's cataloge at the back, frontispice, 6 illustrations including photographs and drawings of battle scenes and other illustrations taken from The Illustrated London News and a sketch map of the wstern side of the Bosphorous. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. Very good but for a short tear at the top of the spine to board edge at the back. No date, but gift inscription to ffep dated 1919. The scene is the struggle between Ottoman European provinces and the declining Turkish Empire.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Zustand: Very Good. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 346pp., and 32pp of advertisements Bound in publisher's tan cloth, which is decorated. Very little wear or rubbing, though some light soiling on front board and spine. Owner's lable on front board and book has two diffrent stamps on front end page. Text is bright and clear. Very strong, tight copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Zustand: Very Good. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 346pp., and 32pp of advertisements Bound in publisher's tan cloth, which is decorated. Very little wear or rubbing, though some light soiling on front board and spine. Owner's lable on front board and book has two diffrent stamps on front end page. Text is bright and clear. Very strong, tight copy. . . . . …

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8'' x 5¼''. Contains 288 printed pages of text. Dusty page edges, name to each end paper. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with chips and tears, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 33 pages + adverts. Original red cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine and black lettering and decoration to the front board, good with some general wear and rubbing to extremities and joints, cloth somewhat marked and unevenly faded. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, end papers marked, some read wear. A good only copy. Size: 8vo. Book. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Crown8vo, frontis, [10], 319, 32 p. Five illustrations and endpaper map. Original dark blue pictorial (with soldier holding a rifle with bayonet dripping red blood) cloth, gilt. Brief inscription dated 1904 otherwise a VG copy.

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Zustand: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. Contains [vii] 279 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs. Slightest hint of tanning to the text block edges. Near Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0356104001 ESPIONAGE (Clandestine).…

Zustand: Good. The Boy Galloper by The Intelligence Officer, 1903.Publisher: William Blackwood, Edinburgh.Binding: hardback cloth.Illustrated: yes.Description / Condition: Some edge wear/browning/marks/edge tears to boards. Replacement maps overlayed to replacement endpapers. Ownership mark to first page along with another ownership mark and stamp to half-title page. Light foxing to pages with minor creases in places. Please see pictures for further information.…

Zustand: Very Good. Sixth impression. Hardback. Original blue cloth with black titles. Covers slightly worn and marked, spine slightly dulled with slight nicking at edges, otherwise very good. No jacket.

For information regarding Thomson's eventful career (he interrogated Mata Hari) see his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p., landscape 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged. Typed onto the letterhead is the reference 'A. L. K.' The note reads: 'Dear Mrs. Vickers, | Certainly I will. If you will ask for Sergeant Tansley when you arrive at Folkestone he will see you through. I will warn him of your coming.'.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth effect covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains (vi), 202 pp. Spotting to the fore edge. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Member of the P.B.F.A. RUSSIAN [Military].…

Zustand: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original conker cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, publisher's device to the front board. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains frontispiece, (viii), 370 + [xiv] pp with 7 illustrations including drawings of battle scenes and other illustrations taken from The Illustrated London News and a sketch map of the western side of the Bosphorous. The scene is the struggle between Ottoman European provinces and the declining Turkish Empire. In Very Good clean and sharp condition, no dust wrapper. Customs duty applies for orders shipped into the EU from outside the EU, Delivered Duty Paid (DDP), our shipping price includes DDP. Member of the P.B.F.A. TURKEY (History and Culture).…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A very scarce first edition of this exciting investigation into the German spy system at the start of the First World War. First edition. Very scarce. A detailed work exploring the spy system in Germany at the start of the First World War, with chapters on training, military spies, naval espionage, diplomatic espionage, communications, female spies, agents provocateurs, and more. Written by "Ex-Intelligence Officer" attributed to Lionel James. In the original paper binding. Externally, smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the rear board. Light sunning to the spine with a small tear to the tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Folio (215 x 275 mm). 1 p. With the letterhead of Mohamed El-Chafai Bomboatman, a stamp dealer in Port Said. Four stamps pasted down, and handwritten signed note. An extraordinary document presenting examples of four stamps designed by T. E. Lawrence for the Arab Revolt, sent directly to His Majesty King George V, who has noted in his own hand: "These stamps are the new issue since the Sherif of Mecca has been on our side", signed simply "Geo". Reportedly, George V (an avid stamp collector) received around 400 Hijaz stamps. - What Lawrence and George V would have both understood was that postage stamps were a useful political tool. As Oriental Secretary at the Arab Bureau, Sir Ronald Storrs (1881-1955), wrote in his memoirs: "Shortly after the Arab Revolution we found that its success was being denied or blanketed by Enemy Press (which was of course quoted by neutrals), and we decided that the best proof that it had taken place would be provided by an issue of Hajaz postage stamps, which would carry the Arab propaganda" (quoted in Beech). Storrs also described how he "wandered with Lawrence round the Arab Museum in Cairo collecting suitable motifs in order that the design in wording, spirit and ornament, might be as far as possible representative and reminiscent of a purely Arab source of inspiration. Pictures and views were avoided, for these never formed part of Arab decoration, and are foreign to its art: so also was European lettering" (Beech). - T. E. Lawrence himself mentioned the stamps in a letter to his brothers in July 1916, excited by the prospect of design and paying special attention to a scheme to use flavoured gum on the back, which involved strawberry essence on the red stamps and pineapple juice on the green stamps. Both red and green are in fact represented here, though with their flavour untested. - The final designs were in fact the work of two men, neither of them Lawrence himself. First, Agumi Effendi Ali, who designed the ¼ piastre stamp (seen in green) and the ½ piastre stamp (seen in red), which David Beech states were inspired by the carved panels on the principal door of the al-Salih Talayi Mosque in Cairo and by the last page of a Holy Qur'an in the 14th century Mosque of Sultan Barquq, respectively. Second, Mustafa Effendi Ghozlan, who designed the 1 piastre stamp (seen in blue), inspired by "an ancient prayer niche in the Mosque of al-Amri at Qus in Upper Egypt" (Beech). This particular collection also includes an orange stamp, interestingly, noted as worth 1/10 piastre. - "Perhaps without this philatelic connection Lawrence might never have become 'Lawrence of Arabia'. For it was on this, his first visit to the Hijaz, that he met one of the sons of King Husayn of Hijaz, Emir Faysal (1885-1933) who was to become successively Commander of the Northern Army in the Arab Revolt 1916-1918, King of Syria from 1918 until 1920 when he was deposed by the French, and finally King of Iraq 1921-1933" (Beech). - A small closed tear, but a fine survival. - David R. Beech, "Hejaz: The First Postage Stamps of 1916 and T E Lawrence", in: The London Philatelist 114 (205), 323-327.…

Map of Iran, on thick "tracing paper", 62 x 49cms, closed tear of fold, minor damage, ow good condition, with stamp ("Graphics") and label, c.8 x 2.5cm stating "[symbol used for] Principal Cities | [symbol used for] Towns and Villages which have date palms in their neighbourhood". From the Papers of V.H.W. Dowson, expert on date production and Intelligence Officer. Author of Key Publications: Dates and Date Cultivation of Iraq (1921) and Dates: Handling, Processing, and Packing (FAO, 1962). See Image.…

Zustand: Very good. [New York], November 14, 1932., 1932. Very good. - Over 85 words typed on his 8-5/8 inch high by 6-1/2 inch wide "90 Broad Street" stationery. Addressing the young campaign volunteer Seymour J. Halpern, William J. Donovan, the future head of the Office of Strategic Services, writes, "We have been through a hard fight together. We did not win the title but we did a real job." He goes on to show his appreciation to the young autograph collector, "I want you to know that I appreciate that the fight could not have been fought as it was if it had not been for your continued loyalty and support. Please accept this as my symbol of appreciation." Signed in full "William J. Donovan". Donovan ran for Governor of New York State to succeed FDR in 1932. A Republican, he lost to Herbert Lehman. Folded in half for mailing, the edges are soiled and there are tears to the edges of the fold. Very good. To house his law firm, in March of 1932 Colonel William J. Donovan leased a large suite of offices in the Stone & Webster Building at 90 Broad Street in New York City. The American attorney, diplomat, soldier, and intelligence officer William J. Donovan (1883-1959) is best known as the head of the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services which was the war time precursor to the CIA. A veteran of World War I, Donovan was awarded the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the National Security Medal. In 1941, FDR established the Office of the Coordination of Information with Donovan as its director. Once the U.S. entered the war, the COI became the OSS in June of 1942 with Donovan, now a major general, as its head. Donovan created the OSS as a military psychological warfare service, to include both psychological and unconventional warfare. The service would soon include elements that would be called "special operations" the first phase of which would be intelligence penetration, including research and analysis and propaganda, followed by a second stage incorporating sabotage and subversion. This second stage would be followed by guerilla action, commando raids, and support of resistance movements. An avid autograph collector in his youth, the then 19-year old campaign volunteer, the future Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. …

4 pp. 8vo. Double sheet. With autograph envelope. To Albert Yarwood at his shipbuilding company in Northwich, Cheshire, chiefly referring to progress on H.M.S. Auxiliary Aquarius, "I've had letters from Singapore about the Aquarius, which seems to have been adopted as a Station Pet! If she does half what they ask of her, she will be a wonder ship. The only criticism so far is that she is a bit hot, in the engine room. So I suppose the poor old chief is still sweating! He'll qualify for a jockey in two or three years time"; also discussing at length a new way of creating a new floor of mahogany sawdust for his cottage, Clouds Hill, in Dorset, where Yarwood supplied materials.…

4to. 1½ pp. To the politician Ernest Thurtle, acknowledging his success in abolishing the British Army's death penalty to punish crimes such as desertion or cowardice: "Then the Lords gave me a fright. Lord Allenby too, whom I like and admire. Surely if I had been in London, able to see him, he would at least have kept silence - if not supported you. Yet doesn't it make you surer you were right, to see all the General Staff opposing you? In the end you downed the Lords, as you had downed the Government. I feel it is a blessed victory. The old state of law hurt me. It was such a damnable judgement upon our own flesh & blood [.] I haven't really said thank you for all you did: because I feel that it was only your duty really. People who care anything at all about their countries don't like to see them fouling themselves [.]". - After over 300 British soldiers had been executed by firing squad following brief trials during World War I, Thurtle had first introduced his measure for the law's abolition in 1924. - A few small marginal tears to the folds.…

Various sizes (folio, 4to, 8vo). A total of 460 typescript and 177 manuscript pp. (9 of which comprise merely 2 lines) in 26 fascicles, assembled as 11 portfolios. With a few newspaper clippings as well as 1 photograph each of Hagia Sophia and the gate of Dolmabahce Palace, mounted on cardboard as postcards. A highly important and extensive archive from the secret personal papers of General Auguste Sarrou, France's chief spymaster in the Levant and Turkey during the critical period between 1917 and 1923, when the Near and Middle East were completely re-ordered following the demise of the Ottoman Empire. It features numerous "top secret" spy reports, correspondence and dossiers of political analysis, providing stellar insights into France's central role in shaping the destiny of Syria, Lebanon and Turkey, working to counteract the forces unleashed by Lawrence of Arabia during the Arab Revolt. - The present archive consists of dozens of classified intelligence reports, political masterplans and field notes. Most of the documents are typescripts or carbon copies of typescripts (many written by Sarrou), intended for distribution amongst only the most senior French military and political officials. The documents span Sarrou's entire career, dating from 1908 to the 1960s, although the bulk of the documents concern the critical period from 1917 to 1923. It includes a typescript copy of Sarrou's autobiography, written at the end of his 60-year-long career in espionage and diplomacy in Turkey, the Balkans and the Middle East; a series of papers relating to Sarrou's time serving as a gendarme in Macedonia in the decade prior to World War I, when he notably befriended many leaders of "Young Turks"; and a further series of papers outline his secret "Mission d'Orient", a grand operation to support French ambitions in Syria, Lebanon and Anatolia. Furthermore, a series of highly important and secret analytical reports written by Sarrou provide a "game plan" for how France was to rule Syria and Lebanon (importantly, the Quay d'Orsay largely followed Sarrou's advice as matters unfolded). Notable is Sarrou's brutally unflattering assessment of Emir Faisal, Lawrence of Arabia's old comrade. Additionally, there is an intriguing manuscript report of a meeting held between Arab intellectuals and Djemal Pasha, the Ottoman War Minister, the day before the fall of Damascus, as well as a series of fascinating reports concerning the 1921 attempt on the life of General Henri Gouraud, the French High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon. Another series of 25 typescript "Secret" intelligence reports compiled by the Service des informations de la Marine dans le Levant (S.I.L.) in Port Said in 1918 and 1919 contain fascinating raw field intelligence on Anti-French elements throughout the Middle East, as well as the efforts of French assets to counteract these forces through counterespionage and propaganda. A diverse collection of typescript and manuscript research documents, as well as correspondence from key assets, assembled by Sarrou from 1919 to 1922, is supplemented by a series of highly insightful typescript reports, written by Sarrou to advise the French government on the situation in Turkey from 1921 to 1931, covering the rise of Atatürk's new republic and French efforts to gain influence in Ankara. Finally, there is a collection of letters, documents and postcards from Sarrou's mid to later career, from the late 1920s until his retirement in the mid-1960s. - Many of the elements of the present archive are likely unique survivors, while a couple examples of some of the typescripts may exist in various French official archives. A detailed list is available upon request.…

8vo. 2 pp. and 2 lines on bifolium. "Dear Lady Young I wonder if you (and His Ex.) are still there? Your letter to me sat at 2 Smith Square (Sir H. B. not knowing my whereabouts) till last night, when I called and collected it. I am sorry. Most of my addresses are like that. Would you be so good as to register / T. E. Shaw / Clouds Hill / Moreton / Dorset / as my likeliest spot, in future? It represents my cottage on the heath, which will be home after March when the RAF bring themselves, not reluctantly, to dispense with my help? I'm sorry not to have seen you. I wanted, while you were yet in Nyasa-land, to beg of His Ex. The rectangular skin of a small (1 sq. yard) lion, for my hearth-rug. But Ronald Storrs whom I saw at Southampton about a month ago told me you had been promoted to his province, and that there were no lions. Ronald was physically a very sick man. Mentally he was fighting hard to keep brisk too hard for his health, I fear. The wreck of an old companion is too near a sight for sorrow, even. I hope Africa suits, after your trial of Asia and Europe. My respects to the Governor! Tell him I saw the fraudulent Abdulla, the other day. Exactly as he was, body & mind. Now, that's the way. / Yours sincerely TE Shaw / A poor letter: but I picture you again in Africa, and my squib spluttering in the void". - Between 1916 to 1918, Abdullah I of Jordan worked with the British guerrilla leader T. E. Lawrence (with whom he had actually never jarred), and played a key role as architect and planner of the Great Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule, leading guerrilla raids on garrisons. From 1921 until his assassination in 1951, Abdullah ruled Jordan, first as Emir under a British Mandate from 1921 to 1946, then as King of an independent nation from 1946 onwards.…