| Categoría | Política |
| ISBN | 9780300248296 |
| Peso | 1.40 |
| Idioma | Inglés |
| Editorial | Yale University Press |
| Autor | Andrew, Christopher |
| Tapa | Rústica |
| Año | 2019 |
| Ciudad | Nueva York |
| Páginas | 960 |
“In this extraordinarily ambitious and monumental work, Christopher Andrew brings an enormous amount of detail together in one place so patterns can begin to emerge and readers can appreciate connections and dissimilarities. No other book has come close to what Andrew has done here.”—Harvey Klehr, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History Emeritus, Emory University
"A comprehensive exploration of spying in its myriad forms from the Bible to the present day. . . . Easy to dip into, and surprisingly funny. Spies have an acute sense of the ridiculous, and their own absurd and lethal drama."--Ben Macintyre, "By the Book," New York Times Book Review
"For anyone with a taste for wide-ranging and shrewdly gossipy history--or, for that matter, for anyone with a taste for spy stories--Andrew's is one of the most entertaining books of the past few years."--Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
"Perhaps the most comprehensive narrative of intelligence compiled: the author's breadth and depth of knowledge are unrivalled."--Max Hastings, The Sunday Times (London)
"To write a world history of intelligence, from the dawn of recorded history to the present day, is a daunting task. To make such a work accurate, comprehensive, digestible and startling, and all in a single volume, is a stellar achievement. But that is what Christopher Andrew has done in The Secret World."--Edward Lucas, The Times (London)
" The Secret World is a work of magisterial breadth."--Amy Zegart, American Interest
"This scholarly but readable history unlocks a portfolio of secrets--supersecrets, even. . . . Failures of intelligence . . . figure as much as successes in Andrew's spry account. Fans of Fleming and Furst will delight in this skillfully related true-fact side of the story."-- Kirkus Reviews
"Both brilliant in its sweep and near-miraculous in the detail and confident judgments provided on two and a half millennia of spying. . . . A crowning triumph of one of the most adventurous scholars of the security world."-- Financial Times
" The Secret World is a magisterial book. It is designed for the lay reader as much as for the expert; the scale, breadth, and depth of the work confirm Christopher Andrew's position as the great Yoda of intelligence studies in the UK."--Michael S. Goodman, Literary Review
"The first global history of intelligence, remarkable for its scope and delightful for its unpredictable comparisons. . . . Given that intelligence is partly about prediction, Andrew argues that the history of intelligence is one of the most powerful tools that modern spies can deploy. Accordingly, there are important lessons for spymasters everywhere in this breath-taking and brilliant book. . . . A stunning secret archaeology of a subject that [Andrew] himself helped to create."--Richard J. Aldrich, Times Literary Supplemen