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Chile, the CIA and the Cold War - A Transatlantic Perspective (Hardcover): James Lockhart Chile, the CIA and the Cold War - A Transatlantic Perspective (Hardcover)
James Lockhart
R3,035 Discovery Miles 30 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter-American and transatlantic national, regional and world-historical trends into a century-long Cold War narrative. He argues that Chileans made their own history as highly engaged internationalists while reassessing American and other foreign-directed intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare operations in Chile and southern South America. The book transcends a well-known, US-centred historiography while offering a more equitable and global interpretation of Chile's Cold War experience than previously possible. This advances research that has progressively expanded the framework of Chile's Cold War experience since the arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in the UK for human rights violations more than 20 years ago.

Spies in the Himalayas - Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs (Hardcover): M.S. Kohli, Kenneth Conboy Spies in the Himalayas - Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs (Hardcover)
M.S. Kohli, Kenneth Conboy
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage.

After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India, which had just fought a border war with its northern neighbor, were both justifiably concerned. The CIA knew it needed more information on China's growing nuclear capability but had few ways of peeking behind the Bamboo Curtain. Because of the extreme remoteness of Chinese testing grounds, conventional surveillance in this pre-satellite era was next to impossible.

The solution to this intelligence dilemma was a joint American-Indian effort to plant a nuclear-powered sensing device on a high Himalayan peak in order to listen into China and monitor its missile launches. It was not a job that could be carried out by career spies, requiring instead the special skills possessed only by accomplished
mountaineers. For this mission, cloaks and daggers were to be replaced by crampons and ice axes.

"Spies in the Himalayas" chronicles for the first time the details of these death-defying expeditions sanctioned by U.S. and Indian intelligence, telling the story of clandestine climbs and hair-raising exploits. Led by legendary Indian mountaineer Mohan S. Kohli, conqueror of Everest, the mission was beset by hazardous climbs, weather delays, aborted attempts, and even missing radioactive materials that may or may not still pose a contamination threat to Indian rivers.

Kept under wraps for over a decade, these operations came to light in 1978 and have been long rumored among mountaineers, but here are finally given book-length treatment. Spies in the Himalayas provides an inside look at a CIA mission from participants who weren't agency employees, drawing on diaries from several of the climbers to offer impressions not usually recorded in covert operations. A host of photos and maps puts readers on the slopes as the team attempts repeatedly to plant the sensor on a Himalayan summit.

An adventure story as well as a new chapter in the history of espionage, this book should appeal to readers who enjoyed Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" and to anyone who enjoys a great spy story.

The Ideal Man - The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War (Paperback): Joshua Kurlantzick The Ideal Man - The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War (Paperback)
Joshua Kurlantzick
R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war—and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds outsiders never saw. As the Cold War reached Thailand, America had a choice: Should it, as Thompson believed, help other nations build democracies from their traditional cultures or, as his ex-OSS friend Willis Bird argued, remake the world through deception and self-serving alliances? In a story rich with insights and intrigue, this book explores a key Cold War episode that is still playing out today. Highlights a pivotal moment in Cold War history that set a course for American foreign policy that is still being followed today Explores the dynamics that put Thailand at the center of the Cold War and the fighting in neighboring Laos that escalated from sideshow to the largest covert operation America had ever engaged in Draws on personal recollections and includes atmospheric details that bring the people, events—and the Thailand of the time—to life Written by a journalist with extensive experience in Asian affairs who has spent years investigating every aspect of this story, including Thompson's tragic disappearance

The Dangerous Trade - Spies, Spying and the Making of Europe (Paperback, New Ed.): Michael J. Levin, Alan Marshall, Steve... The Dangerous Trade - Spies, Spying and the Making of Europe (Paperback, New Ed.)
Michael J. Levin, Alan Marshall, Steve Murdoch; Edited by Paolo Preto, Christopher Storrs, …
R961 Discovery Miles 9 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An academic but accessible study of espionage and its impact, this is the first in a series of studies in early modern European history edited by leading historians.

A Very Expensive Poison - The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West (Paperback,... A Very Expensive Poison - The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West (Paperback, Main)
Luke Harding 1
R460 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R41 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

1st November 2006: Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty-two days later he dies, killed from the inside by Polonium - a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia. This is the inside story of the life and death of Litvinenko and of Russia's new cold war with the west. Harding traces the journey of the nuclear poison across London, from hotel room to nightclub, assassin to victim. It's a deadly trail that leads back to Vladimir Putin, and to a regime exposed by the Panama Papers. Luke Harding's investigation into the death of Alexander Litvinenko, A Very Expensive Poison, may also help us shed light on the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury. From the author of the No.1 New York Times bestseller Collusion.

Hitler's Secret War - The Nazi Espionage Campaign Against the Allies (Paperback): Charles Whiting Hitler's Secret War - The Nazi Espionage Campaign Against the Allies (Paperback)
Charles Whiting
R391 R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Save R38 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In the shadows was another war... An unputdownable account of the Nazi spy operation and how it ultimately failedDuring the Second World War there was, behind the scenes, a bitter conflict was stamped 'Top Secret'. It was a war of infiltration and misdirection, espionage and assassination. And the Nazis were determined not to let anyone best them. Revealing the full extent of Nazi's secret intelligence networks, bestselling author Charles Whiting takes the reader into organisations like the Abwehr, Germany's renowned military intelligence bureau, and features interviews with key figures like such key figures as Giskes, who fooled the Americans at the Battle of the Bulge, and Ritter, who stole the highly classified US Norden bombsights. There are accounts of hubris, heroism and cowardice; stunning triumphs and excruciating defeats, all out of the public eye and revealed only decades later. Over a period of thirty years, Whiting met and interviewed a huge number of Nazi and Allied survivors involved in what came to be known as 'The War in the Shadows'. The result is an extraordinary and gripping story combining great cunning with staggering incompetence. Perfect for readers of Ben Macintyre and Max Hastings, Hitler's Secret War outdoes the best spy novel and demonstrates yet again that fiction cannot rival history.

Man Without A Face - The Autobiography Of Communism's Greatest Spymaster (Paperback, New Ed): Anne McElvoy, Markus Wolf Man Without A Face - The Autobiography Of Communism's Greatest Spymaster (Paperback, New Ed)
Anne McElvoy, Markus Wolf
R609 Discovery Miles 6 090 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

For decades, Markus Wolf was known to Western intelligence officers only as "the man without a face." Now the legendary spymaster has emerged from the shadows to reveal his remarkable life of secrets, lies, and betrayals as head of the world's most formidable and effective foreign service ever. Wolf was undoubtedly the greatest spymaster of our century. A shadowy Cold War legend who kept his own past locked up as tightly as the state secrets with which he was entrusted, Wolf finally broke his silence in 1997. "Man Without a Face" is the result. It details all of Wolf's major successes and failures and illuminates the reality of espionage operations as few nonfiction works before it. Wolf tells the real story of Gunter Guillaume, the East German spy who brought down Willy Brandt. He reveals the truth behind East Germany's involvment with terrorism. He takes us inside the bowels of the Stasi headquarters and inside the minds of Eastern Bloc leaders. With its high-speed chases, hidden cameras, phony brothels, secret codes, false identities, and triple agents, "Man Without a Face" reads like a classic spy thriller--except this time the action is real.

Seduced by Secrets - Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World (Hardcover): Kristie Macrakis Seduced by Secrets - Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World (Hardcover)
Kristie Macrakis
R1,326 Discovery Miles 13 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

More fascinating than fiction, Seduced by Secrets takes the reader inside the real world of one of the most effective and feared spy agencies in history. The book reveals, for the first time, the secret technical methods and sources of the Stasi (East German Ministry for State Security) as it stole secrets from abroad and developed gadgets at home, employing universal, highly guarded techniques often used by other spy and security agencies. Seduced by Secrets draws on secret files from the Stasi archives, including CIA-acquired material, interviews and friendships, court documents, and unusual visits to spy sites, including "breaking into" a prison, to demonstrate that the Stasi overestimated the power of secrets to solve problems and created an insular spy culture more intent on securing its power than protecting national security. It recreates the Stasi's secret world of technology through biographies of agents, defectors, and officers and by visualizing James Bond like techniques and gadgets. In this highly original book, Kristie Macrakis adds a new dimension to our understanding of the East German Ministry for State Security by bringing the topic into the realm of espionage history and exiting the political domain."

The Reform of FBI Intelligence Operations (Paperback): John T. Elliff The Reform of FBI Intelligence Operations (Paperback)
John T. Elliff
R1,398 Discovery Miles 13 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Acts of terrorist violence and foreign espionage may pose a serious threat to the security of the United States; yet recent disclosures demonstrate the great risk in giving an agency such as the FBI unlimited authority for gathering intelligence about terrorists and spies. Taking into account the findings and recommendations of the post-Watergate inquiries into FBI operations, John Elliff analyzes the legal and policy questions posed by a "security police" in a nation committed to constitutional government and the rule of law. The author draws on his experience both as principal consultant for the Police Foundation's research on FBI intelligence operations and as head of the Church committee's congressional staff task force on domestic intelligence. He examines the changes made in the structure and policy framework for FBI intelligence operations, including issues not fully resolved by reorganization and new guidelines. He also covers the standards and procedures for dealing with misconduct by FBI personnel. Dr. Elliff concludes that the present restrictions on FBI activities are necessary and that close supervision and control by the Attorney General will allow the Bureau to operate effectively without depriving law-abiding persons of their privacy or their freedom. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Christopher Marlowe - Poet & Spy (Paperback): Park Honan Christopher Marlowe - Poet & Spy (Paperback)
Park Honan 2
R1,046 Discovery Miles 10 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous 'putative portrait' of Marlowe at Cambridge. The biography uses for the first time the Latin writings of his friend Thomas Watson to illuminate Marlowe's life in London and his career as a spy (that is, as a courier and agent for the Elizabethan Privy Council). There are new accounts of him on the continent, particularly at Flushing or Vlissingen, where he was arrested. The book also more fully explains Marlowe's relations with his chief patron, Thomas Walsingham, than ever before. This is also the first biography to explore in detail Marlowe's relations with fellow playwrights such as Kyd and Shakespeare, and to show how Marlowe's relations with Shakespeare evolved from 1590 to 1593. With closer views of him in relation to the Elizabethan stage than have appeared in any biography, the book examines in detail his aims, mind, and techniques as exhibited in all of his plays, from Dido, the Tamburlaine dramas, and Doctor Faustus through to The Jew of Malta and Edward II. It offers new treatments of his evolving versions of 'The Passionate Shepherd', and displays circumstances, influences, and the bearings of Shakespeare's 'Venus and Adonis' in relation to Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander'. Throughout, there is a strong emphasis on Marlowe's friendships and so-called 'homosexuality'. Fresh information is brought to bear on his seductive use of blasphemy, his street fights, his methods of preparing himself for writing, and his atheism and religious interests. The book also explores his attraction to scientists and mathematicians such as Thomas Harriot and others in the Ralegh-Northumberland set of thinkers and experimenters. Finally, there is new data on spies and business agents such as Robert Poley, Nicholas Skeres, and Ingram Frizer, and a more exact account of the circumstances that led up to Marlowe's murder.

Three Years in Afghanistan (Paperback): Gregg L Davis Three Years in Afghanistan (Paperback)
Gregg L Davis
R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sharpening Strategic Intelligence - Why the CIA Gets It Wrong and What Needs to Be Done to Get It Right (Paperback, New):... Sharpening Strategic Intelligence - Why the CIA Gets It Wrong and What Needs to Be Done to Get It Right (Paperback, New)
Richard L. Russell
R950 R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Save R82 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book critically examines the weaknesses of U.S. intelligence led by the Central Intelligence Agency in informing presidential decision-making on issues of war and peace. It evaluates the CIA's strategic intelligence performance during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods as a foundation for examining the root causes of intelligence failures surrounding the September 11th attacks and assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs in the run up to the Iraq war. Intelligence expert Richard L. Russell probes the roots causes of these failures which lie in the CIA's poor human intelligence collection and analysis practices. Russell argues that none of the post-9/11 intelligence reforms have squarely addressed these root causes of strategic intelligence failure and it recommends measures for redressing these dangerous vulnerabilities in American security.

Perpetual (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Brian Huey Perpetual (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Brian Huey
R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Letter from Uday Hussein Proving He Knew about 911 Before 911 (Paperback): Fernando Fontanez The Letter from Uday Hussein Proving He Knew about 911 Before 911 (Paperback)
Fernando Fontanez
R520 Discovery Miles 5 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Leading Intelligence Analysis - Lessons from the CIA's Analytic Front Lines (Paperback): Bruce E. Pease Leading Intelligence Analysis - Lessons from the CIA's Analytic Front Lines (Paperback)
Bruce E. Pease
R1,852 Discovery Miles 18 520 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

"Bruce Pease has written a much needed book on a long ignored topic: how does one lead analysts? Most analysis is at some level a group activity, whether in government or the private sector. Much has been written about good versus bad analysis and how to train analysts, but Pease, himself a veteran senior CIA analyst and manager, focuses on what the leaders of these analysts need to know and should be thinking about. Leadership matters in analysis as in all other endeavors, and Pease offers invaluable guidance on how to lead effectively. This book is a must for anyone in a leadership role in an analytic enterprise." -Mark M. Lowenthal, PhD, Intelligence & Security Academy, LLC Written by an experienced professional who has led Navy Intelligence and CIA analysts in high-stakes situations, Leading Intelligence Analysis introduces the fundamental managerial skills and practical tools needed to lead analysis projects conducted by individuals and teams. Author Bruce Pease provides insights into key questions such as What kind of environment draws out a team's best work? What brings out their creativity? When does pressure bring out their best insights? When does pressure sap their intellectual energy? and What kind of team builds new knowledge rather than engaging in group-think? This book draws on the author's perspective from decades of leading intelligence analysts on critical issues, including war in the Middle East, terrorism after 9/11, and nuclear threats. Key Features Practical advice helps leaders of analytic units nurture insight with the understanding that it can be enabled but not manufactured. Discussion of a range of different types of analysis serves leaders conducting research in areas including data analysis, security analysis, geopolitical analysis, threat warning, counterterrorism, and business climate analysis. Practical advice on judging IT tools guides leaders to the correct data science approach for various situations.

The crime of not knowing your crime - Ric Throssell against ASIO (Paperback): Karen Throssell The crime of not knowing your crime - Ric Throssell against ASIO (Paperback)
Karen Throssell; Contributions by Phillip Deery
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Snowden Files - The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man (Paperback, Main): Luke Harding The Snowden Files - The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man (Paperback, Main)
Luke Harding 1
R397 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

It began with an unsigned email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community". What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man, Edward Snowden. The consequences have shaken the leaders of nations worldwide, from Obama to Cameron, to the presidents of Brazil, France, and Indonesia, and the chancellor of Germany. Edward Snowden, a young computer genius working for America's National Security Agency, blew the whistle on the way this frighteningly powerful organisation uses new technology to spy on the entire planet. The spies call it "mastering the internet". Others call it the death of individual privacy. This is the inside story of Snowden's deeds and the journalists who faced down pressure from the US and UK governments to break a remarkable scoop. Snowden's story reads like a globe-trotting thriller, from the day he left his glamorous girlfriend in Hawaii, carrying a hard drive full of secrets, to the weeks of secret-spilling in Hong Kong and his battle for asylum. Now stuck in Moscow, a uniquely hunted man, he faces US espionage charges and an uncertain future in exile. What drove Snowden to sacrifice himself? Award-winning Guardian journalist Luke Harding asks the question which should trouble every citizen of the internet age. Luke Harding's other books include Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy and Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia.

A Taste for Treason - The Letter That Smashed a Nazi Spy Ring (Paperback): Andrew Jeffrey A Taste for Treason - The Letter That Smashed a Nazi Spy Ring (Paperback)
Andrew Jeffrey
R461 R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Save R41 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A gripping true story of wartime espionage. Dundee, 1937. When housewife Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan's frequent trips to Nazi Germany, she had no idea that she was about to be drawn into an international web of espionage. Thanks to a tip off from Mary, MI5 and the FBI launched major spy hunts on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the true story of a decade-long series of Nazi espionage plots in Britain, Europe and the United States. It shows how a Nazi spy's letter, posted in New York and intercepted in Scotland, broke spy rings across Europe and North America. And it reveals, for the first time, how that letter marked the genesis of an intelligence and security alliance that today includes the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. 'Fascinating, gripping and expertly researched... an extraordinary true tale of espionage told with all the drama and panache of a spy thriller' - Michael Smith, bestselling author of The Secrets of Station X

Loaded for Guccifer2.0 - Following A Trail of Digital Geopolitics (Paperback): David Jonathon Blake Loaded for Guccifer2.0 - Following A Trail of Digital Geopolitics (Paperback)
David Jonathon Blake
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information (Paperback): Gregory F. Treverton Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information (Paperback)
Gregory F. Treverton
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a bold and penetrating study, Gregory Treverton, former Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council and Senate investigator, offers his insider's views on how intelligence gathering and analysis must change. Treverton suggests why intelligence needs to be contrarian and attentive to the longer term. Believing that it is important to tap expertise outside government to solve intelligence problems, he argues that involving colleagues in the academy, think tanks, and Wall Street befits the changed role of government from doer to convener, mediator, and coalition-builder. Hb ISBN (2001): 0-521-58096-X

Secrets of the Cold War - Us Army Europe's Intelligence and Counterintelligence Activities Against the Soviets... Secrets of the Cold War - Us Army Europe's Intelligence and Counterintelligence Activities Against the Soviets (Paperback)
Leland C. Mccaslin
R598 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Secrets of the Cold War focuses on a dark period of a silent war and offers a new perspective on the struggle between the superpowers of the world told in the words of those who were there. The author, formerly an expert in counterintelligence in US Army Europe, weaves together exciting true accounts of allies collecting enemy information in the East and fighting spies and terrorists in the West. Learn the bizarre method a British agent uses to obtain the muzzle size of a Russian tank as he risks his lifejumping on a moving train in East Germany. A French officer drives into a Soviet tank column and escapes undiscovered by cunning methods. In West Germany, terrorist attacks and spies are rampant. Communists shoot a rocket-propelled grenade into a General's occupied limo and terrorists kidnap another General. From the espionage files, an American soldier is nearly recruited in a downtown bar to be a spy and a First Sergeant is lured by sex to be an unknowing participant in spying. Behind-the-lines images are historic and intriguing. See photographs of a French officer and a Soviet officer relaxing in the East German woods in a temporary unofficial peace; 'James Bond' type cars with their light tricks and their ability to leave their Stasi shadows 'wheel spinning' in the snow will amaze readers. A Russian translator for the presidential hotline recounts a story about having to lock his doors in the Pentagon, separating himself and his sergeant from the Pentagon Generals when a message comes in from the Soviets. When he called the White House to relay the message to the President and stood by for a possible reply to the Soviet Chairman, he stopped working for the Generals and started working solely for the President. In another riveting account, a US Berlin tank unit goes on red alert when the Soviets stop a US convoy on the autobahn between West Germany and Berlin. The Berlin Command orders the tanks to rescue them, "If anything gets in your way, either run over it or blow it away!" Containing a host of first-person accounts that lift the lid on previously untold clandestine activities, this is a major contribution to Cold War history, and exciting reading for all those who have an interest in the real-life world of military intelligence, counterintelligence and espionage. Francis Gary Powers, Jr:"Well written and informative, the book is a magnificent assessment of the Cold War history."

Her Majesty's Empire - The Control and Manipulation of the United States by Britain (Paperback): M F Onuchukwu Her Majesty's Empire - The Control and Manipulation of the United States by Britain (Paperback)
M F Onuchukwu
R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Canadian Spy Story - Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police (Hardcover): David A. Wilson Canadian Spy Story - Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police (Hardcover)
David A. Wilson
R1,032 Discovery Miles 10 320 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In the mid-nineteenth century a group of Irish revolutionaries, known as the Fenians, set out to destroy Britain's North American empire. Between 1866 and 1871 they launched a series of armed raids into Canadian territory. In Canadian Spy Story David Wilson takes readers into a dark and dangerous world of betrayal and deception, spies and informers, invasion and assassination, spanning Canada, the United States, Ireland, and Britain. In Canada there were Fenian secret societies in urban areas, including Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto, and in some rural townships, all part of a wider North American network. Wilson tells the tale of Irishmen who attempted to liberate their country from British rule, and the Canadian secret police who infiltrated their revolutionary cells and worked their way to the top of the organization. With surprises at every turn, the story includes a sex scandal that nearly brought Canadian spy operations crashing down, as well as reports from Toronto about a plot to assassinate Queen Victoria. Featuring a cast of idealists, patriots, cynics, manipulators, and liars, Canadian Spy Story raises fundamental questions about state security and civil liberty, with important lessons for our own time.

Reflections of Alan Turing - A Relative Story (Paperback): Dermot Turing Reflections of Alan Turing - A Relative Story (Paperback)
Dermot Turing
R306 R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing. Except ... When Dermot Turing is asked about his famous uncle, people want to know more than the bullet points of his life. They want to know everything - was Alan Turing actually a codebreaker? What did he make of artificial intelligence? What is the significance of Alan Turing's trial, his suicide, the Royal Pardon, the GBP50 note and the film The Imitation Game? In Reflections of Alan Turing, Dermot strips off the layers to uncover the real story. It's time to discover a fresh legacy of Alan Turing for the twenty-first century.

Assessing Systemic Strengths and Vulnerabilities of China's Defense Industrial Base - With a Repeatable Methodology for... Assessing Systemic Strengths and Vulnerabilities of China's Defense Industrial Base - With a Repeatable Methodology for Other Countries (Paperback)
Cortney Weinbaum, Caolionn O'Connell, Steven W. Popper
R1,140 Discovery Miles 11 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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