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Calder Walton 出版社: Simon & Schuster 副标题: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West 出版年: 2023-6-6 页数: 688 定价: USD 21.99 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781668000694
Mining hitherto secret archives in multiple languages, Calder Walton shows that the Cold War started earlier than commonly assumed, that it continued even after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, and that Britain and America’s clandestine struggle with the Soviet government provided key lessons for countering China today. This “authoritative, sweeping” (Fredrik Logevall, Puli...
Mining hitherto secret archives in multiple languages, Calder Walton shows that the Cold War started earlier than commonly assumed, that it continued even after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, and that Britain and America’s clandestine struggle with the Soviet government provided key lessons for countering China today. This “authoritative, sweeping” (Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Embers of War) history, combined with practical takeaways for our current great power struggles, make Spies a unique and essential addition to the history of the Cold War and the unrolling conflict between the United States and China that will dominate the 21st century.
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Calder Walton is one of the world’s leading scholars of intelligence and national security. An historian at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, he received a doctorate in history from Trinity College, Cambridge, where he also helped to write MI5’s authorized hundred-year history. He is general editor of the three-volume Cambridge History of Espionage and Intelligence. His p...
Calder Walton is one of the world’s leading scholars of intelligence and national security. An historian at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, he received a doctorate in history from Trinity College, Cambridge, where he also helped to write MI5’s authorized hundred-year history. He is general editor of the three-volume Cambridge History of Espionage and Intelligence. His previous book, Empire of Secrets, won the Longman-History Today Book of the Year award. His research has appeared in leading academic journals and in print and broadcast media on both sides of the Atlantic. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife and son, who teaches him the true nature of subterfuge.
SOE's official historian,M.R.D.Foot,once told I methat its greatest success was to "give resistancemovements in occupied countries the moral courageto fight."This was something they did not forget inthe postwar years.In this respect,as Max Hastingshas correctly noted,the true achievement of SOE wasfelt after the war,not during it:"Never could enemiesof democracy claim that Britain and the United Stateshad abandoned the occupied nations to their fate." (查看原文)
Intelligence played a role on the eastern front but was not decisive. The war there effectively came down to combat—and Stalin’s willingness to send limitless numbers of Soviet soldiers and citizens to their deaths.
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