| Description |
1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
"Humint" by default and the problem of trust : Soviet intelligence, 1917/1941 / by Jonathan Haslam -- Barbarossa and the bomb : two cases of Soviet intelligence in World War II / by David Holloway -- Seeking a scapegoat : intelligence and grand strategy in France, 1919/1940 / by Stephen Schuker. -- French intelligence about the East, 1945/1968 / by Georges Soutou -- British intelligence during the Cold War / by Richard Aldrich -- The Stasi confronts Western subversion, 1966/1975 / by Oliver Bange -- The West German secret services during the Cold War / by Holger Afflerbach. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This volume brings together a collection of essays that analyse the recent evidence concerning the history of the European states system of the last century. The essays offer an array of insight across countries and across time. Together they highlight the critical importance of the prevailing domestic circumstances - technological, governmental, ideological, cultural, financial - in which intelligence operates. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Intelligence service -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Intelligence service. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Secret service -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Secret service. |
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Europe -- Foreign relations -- 1918-1945.
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1918-1945 |
| Subject |
Europe -- Foreign relations -- 1945-
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| Chronological Term |
1945- |
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Since 1900 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Haslam, Jonathan, editor.
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Urbach, Karina, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Secret intelligence in the European states system, 1918-1989. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, ©2014 viii, 243 pages 9780804783590 |
| ISBN |
9780804788915 (electronic book) |
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080478891X (electronic book) |
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9780804783590 |
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