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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Espionage & secret services
In this remarkable tale Nick Barratt delves into the shadows of the
British and Soviet secret services to reveal the shocking story of
his great uncle Ernest Holloway Oldham. After serving in the
British army during the First World War, Oldham was drafted into
the British Foreign Office. Over the course of the next decade
Ernest was drawn ever deeper into the underworld of pre-Cold War
espionage, towards a double-life that became the darkest of
secrets. Enigmatic and gripping this is a journey through
post-First World War Europe where agents, special agents and double
agents lurked in the darkness, during a period of history when
everyone had something to hide.
The computer was born to spy, and now computers are transforming
espionage. But who are the spies and who is being spied on in
today's interconnected world? This is the exhilarating secret
history of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon Corera's
compelling narrative, rich with historical details and characters,
takes us from the Second World War to the internet age, revealing
the astonishing extent of cyberespionage carried out today. Drawing
on unique access to intelligence agencies, heads of state, hackers
and spies of all stripes, INTERCEPT is a ground-breaking
exploration of the new space in which the worlds of espionage,
geopolitics, diplomacy, international business, science and
technology collide. Together, computers and spies are shaping the
future. What was once the preserve of a few intelligence agencies
now matters for us all.
Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War examines the hitherto
unexplored history of secret intelligence cooperation between three
asymmetric partners - specifically the UK, US and Turkey - from the
end of the Second World War until the Turkey's first military coup
d'etat on 27 May 1960. The book shows that our understanding of the
Cold War as a binary rivalry between the two blocs is too simple an
approach and obscures important characteristics of intelligence
cooperation among allies. Egemen Bezci shows that a pragmatic
approach offers states new opportunities to protect national
interests, by conducting ''intelligence diplomacy' to influence
crucial areas such as nuclear weapons and to exploit cooperation in
support of their own strategic imperatives. This study not only
reveals previously-unexplored origins of secret intelligence
cooperation between Turkey and West, but also contributes to wider
academic debates on the nature of the Cold War by highlighting the
potential agency of weaker states in the Western Alliance.
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