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	FRIEDMAN , NORMAN ED. Cold War Experience , the - 1945 - 1991 - Box Set of Book + Dvd + Documents & Memorabilia USA: Carlton Pub, 2005. First. Hard Cover with DVD. Photos & Maps. 11 x 12 x 1-1/2 " 1844424898 2005 Boxed Set of Book with DVD + more ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... STILL SEALED in publisher's shrinkwrap ... this one has portion shrinkwrap missing from front ... Box is untouched underneath ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... This is a big , handsome box set , 11 x 12" in size, weighing 3-1/2 pounds ... Book 64 pages + package contains more than 200 Photographs + 11 Maps + DVD of Nuclear Defence information films + rare removable facsimiles of documents and Memorabilia , from museums around the world , many published here for the first time ... This is a fascinating package, about a thrilling and dangerous time in world history ... The so-called ' Cold War ' ... which was only called that, because no-one, Thank God, pushed the ' hot ' button ... To do so would have meant nuclear disaster of unthinkable proportions ... After World War Two, our greatest allies against Hitler, and the country who suffered the most fighting against the Nazi menace was Russia ... but she slammed down what Winston Churchill called the ' Iron Curtain ' , on the Soviet Union ... and the ' war ' was on ... It was a stare-down, and a stalemate, ' fought ' with secret agents and espionage on a scale not seen before ... Real life spies carried out missions like something out of James Bond movies ... but the stakes were deadly, and were for real ... Governments in the United States and Great Britain, and in Russia, devoted enormous sums of money and manpower ... and oft-times woman-power ... to spying on each other, and in luring double-agents to come back in from the cold , and to bring their secrets with them ... Was it simply Communists against Capitalists ? ... Were there really reds under the beds ? ... What was behind the Berlin Wall ? ... How did the Koreans get involved ... and who was backing them ? ... Who was in the ' Axis of Evil ' voluntarily , and who against their will ? ... and which of our former friends were now our enemies ? ... This tells the whole true story ... from the Berlin Airlift , through the Korean War ... the armed repression of Hungary , and of East Germany , in the 1950s ... the Berlin Wall ... the Cuban missile crisis ... the Arms Race ... Czechoslovakia ... Glasnost ... Perestroika ... the Russians in Afghanistan ... McCarthyism in America ... the revoltions in Eastern Europe ... and the ultimate collapse of the ' Evil Empire ', the old Soviet Union ... The cast of characters could have come out of a John le Carre novel ... but they were real ... Soviet leaders like Kruschev , Boris Yeltsin , Gorbachev ... and American presidents , determined to rid the world of the Communist menace and make the world safe for democracy ... Was it President John F. Kennedy who saved the world , in the Bay of Pigs incident ? ... or was it Ronald Reagan who ultimately brought down the USSR when he said- " Mr. Gorbachev , tear down this wall ! " ... Author Norman Friedman is a defence analyst, and he has done his research well, providing new information here which has never been publicly delved into in such depth ... Absolutely essential package for the student or historian ... for those who remember the Cold War, and for those seeking to understand it, and to know how it has shaped, and in many ways, continues to shape, our world today ... " The Cold War Experience - 1945 - 1991 " ... by Norman Friedman ... Box Set of Book, DVD & documents & memorabilia , photographs & maps & more ... *. New/New . USD 54.95** [Appr.: EURO 36.75 \| £UK 33.25 \| JP¥ 4850] Book number: 6356 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	FRIEDMAN , NORMAN ED. Cold War Experience , the - 1945 - 1991 - Box Set of Book + Dvd + Documents & Memorabilia USA: Carlton Pub, 2005. First. Hard Cover with DVD. Photos & Maps. 11 x 12 x 1-1/2 " 1844424898 2005 Boxed Set of Book with DVD + more ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... STILL SEALED in original publisher's shrinkwrap ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... This is a big , handsome box set , 11 x 12" size, weighing 3-1/2 pounds ... Book 64 pages + package contains more than 200 Photographs + 11 Maps + DVD of Nuclear Defence information films + rare removable facsimiles of documents and Memorabilia , from museums around the world , many published here for the first time ... This is a fascinating package, about a thrilling and dangerous time in world history ... The so-called ' Cold War ' ... which was only called that, because no-one, Thank God, pushed the ' hot ' button ... To do so would have meant nuclear disaster of unthinkable proportions ... After World War Two, our greatest allies against Hitler, and the country who suffered the most fighting against the Nazi menace was Russia ... but she slammed down what Winston Churchill called the ' Iron Curtain ' , on the Soviet Union ... and the ' war ' was on ... It was a stare-down, and a stalemate, ' fought ' with secret agents and espionage on a scale not seen before ... Real life spies carried out missions like something out of James Bond movies ... but the stakes were deadly, and were for real ... Governments in the United States and Great Britain, and in Russia, devoted enormous sums of money and manpower ... and oft-times woman-power ... to spying on each other, and in luring double-agents to come back in from the cold , and to bring their secrets with them ... Was it simply Communists against Capitalists ? ... Were there really reds under the beds ? ... What was behind the Berlin Wall ? ... How did the Koreans get involved ... and who was backing them ? ... Who was in the ' Axis of Evil ' voluntarily , and who against their will ? ... and which of our former friends were now our enemies ? ... This tells the whole true story ... from the Berlin Airlift , through the Korean War ... the armed repression of Hungary , and of East Germany , in the 1950s ... the Berlin Wall ... the Cuban missile crisis ... the Arms Race ... Czechoslovakia ... Glasnost ... Perestroika ... the revoltions in Eastern Europe ... and the collapse of the ' Evil Empire ', the old Soviet Union ... The cast of characters could have come out of a John le Carre novel ... but they were real ... Soviet leaders like Kruschev , Boris Yeltsin , Gorbachev ... and American presidents , determined to rid the world of the Communist menace and make the world safe for democracy ... Was it President John F. Kennedy who saved the world , in the Bay of Pigs incident ? ... or was it Ronald Reagan who ultimately brought down the USSR when he said- " Mr. Gorbachev , tear down this wall ! " ... Author Norman Friedman is a defence analyst, and he has done his research well, providing new information here which has never been publicly delved into in such depth ... Absolutely essential package for the student or historian ... for those who remember the Cold War, and for those seeking to understand it, and to know how it has shaped, and in many ways, continues to shape, our world today ... " The Cold War Experience - 1945 - 1991 " ... by Norman Friedman ... Box Set of Book, DVD & documents & memorabilia , photographs & maps & more ... *. New/New . USD 59.95** [Appr.: EURO 40 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5291] Book number: 6356a Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	NORDSTROM, CAROLYN Different Kind of War Story , a . . . ( the Ethnography of Political Violence Series ) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9 -1/2 x 1 " 0812234065 1997 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New, non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 272 pages with bibliography & index ... illustrated with B&W Photographs ... This is the first book in the University of Pennsylvania Press series on 'The Ethnography of Political Violence.' The Series explores the lived realities of resistance and terror today, and critically examines the methods and ethics of doing anthropology in arenas of conflict. The Series serves as a forum for debate on the nature of violence and the cultural contexts of political action, and offers an outlet for the growing body of ethnographic research on the violent conflicts that are shaping our world. How do people understand and survive programs of state terror? ... How is resistance to terror conceptualized and carried out? How are violent actions interpreted by their perpetrators and by the victims? ... Ethongraphers, approaching these topices at the grass roots level , can citically complement the work of political scientists, historians, and other scholars of conflict through their unique attention to culture and experience ... 'The Ethnography of Political Violence Series ' is offered in this context as an anthropological contribution to the understanding - and eventual resolution - of the violent conflicts that span the globe today ... Includes : Creativity, Violence & the Scholar ; Living on the Frontlines; The Grotesque and the Terror-able - The Ultimate Defeat of War ; Identity and Imagination; Mundus Imaginalas : The Creation of Self and World ; Unmasking Violence .... " A Different Kind of War Story " by Carolyn Nordstrom ... published by The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 39.95** [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3526] Book number: 5988 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	VENTER, AL J. Iraqi War Debrief, the . . . Why Saddam Hussein Was Toppled South Africa: Earthbound, 2004. 2004 Printing. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 0620307242 2004 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked .... Gift Giving quality ... 340 pages ...The Iraqi War Debrief takes a searching and critical look at Iraq and related Middle East developments - particularly the huge armory of weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was said to have accumulated over the past twenty years ... The book provides an intrusive and pertinent insight into how a small country like Iraq - with deceit, guile and duplicity - could accumulate enough chemical, biological and nuclear assets to threaten the security of millions of people across a huge region east of Suez ... It also casts a critical eye at what appears to be similar developments shaping right now in Iraq's traditional enemy, Iran ... " The Iraqi War Debrief ... Why Saddam Hussein Was Toppled" ... by Al J. Venter ... published by Earthbound , South Africa ... in English only ... 2004 Softcover *. NEW . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 5497 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	VOLKMAN, ERNEST History of Espionage, the - the Clandestine World of Surveillance, Spying and Intelligence, from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 World London: Carlton, 2007. First Edition, 1st printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos Throughout. 9-1/4 x 11-1/2 x 3/4 " 1844420566 2007 First Edition GLOSSY HARDCOVER in matching DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... We've protected the Jacket for you in a New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... imported from London ... This is a great big heavy handsome book ... over 9 x 11" size, weighing nearly 3 pounds ... 224 pages with Glossary & index ... illustrated throughout with paintings and photographs of historical figures in espionage; everyone from Mata Hari to Alan Turing to Ian Flemming to Allan Pinkerton, and many more ... Ernest Volkman is a military intelligence specialist, and respected author, broadcaster, and correspondent ... He has written many books on the subject of spies and spying ... but he may have outdone himself on this one ! ... This is the ultimate story of spies ... it tells what they do, and how they really work ... While the golden age of spying reached its zenith during the Cold War, spies have been documented as far back as Biblical times, and have been used in ever war since, and are not considered essential to any country's national defence ... The earliest recorded use of spies, up to today's survellience society, is covered in this book ... which includes : Military Scouts, captured documents, bugging devices, honey traps, hidden tunnels, secret camers and poison ... and a whole host of characters thorugh a thousand-year span, including Hannibal, Christopher Marlowe, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Litvinenko, and many many more ... The true story of subterfuge, of wars won ... and lost ... and how governments around the world have spent, and continue to spend, billions on security and intelligence gathering ... with many pictures, illustrations and maps ... Hours of entertainment ... " The History of Espionage - The Clandestine World of Surveillance, Spying and intelligence, from ancient times to the post-9/11 world " ... by Ernest Volkman ... published by Carlton, London 2007 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. New/New . USD 31.95** [Appr.: EURO 21.5 \| £UK 19.25 \| JP¥ 2820] Book number: 6483 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	VOLKMAN, ERNEST History of Espionage, the - the Clandestine World of Surveillance, Spying and Intelligence, from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 World London: Carlton, 2007. First Edition, 1st printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos Throughout. 9-1/4 x 11-1/2 x 3/4 " 1844420566 2007 First Edition GLOSSY HARDCOVER in matching DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... We've protected the Jacket for you in a New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... imported from London ... This is a great big heavy handsome book ... over 9 x 11" size, weighing nearly 3 pounds ... 224 pages with Glossary & index ... illustrated throughout with paintings and photographs of historical figures in espionage; everyone from Mata Hari to Alan Turing to Ian Flemming to Allan Pinkerton, and many more ... Ernest Volkman is a military intelligence specialist, and respected author, broadcaster, and correspondent ... He has written many books on the subject of spies and spying ... but he may have outdone himself on this one ! ... This is the ultimate story of spies ... it tells what they do, and how they really work ... While the golden age of spying reached its zenith during the Cold War, spies have been documented as far back as Biblical times, and have been used in ever war since, and are not considered essential to any country's national defence ... The earliest recorded use of spies, up to today's survellience society, is covered in this book ... which includes : Military Scouts, captured documents, bugging devices, honey traps, hidden tunnels, secret camers and poison ... and a whole host of characters thorugh a thousand-year span, including Hannibal, Christopher Marlowe, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Litvinenko, and many many more ... The true story of subterfuge, of wars won ... and lost ... and how governments around the world have spent, and continue to spend, billions on security and intelligence gathering ... with many pictures, illustrations and maps ... Hours of enjoyment ... " The History of Espionage - The Clandestine World of Surveillance, Spying and intelligence, from ancient times to the post-9/11 world " ... by Ernest Volkman ... published by Carlton, London 2007 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. New/New . USD 31.95** [Appr.: EURO 21.5 \| £UK 19.25 \| JP¥ 2820] Book number: 6483a Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.

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	FRIEDMAN , NORMAN ED. Cold War Experience , the - 1945 - 1991 - Box Set of Book + Dvd + Documents & Memorabilia USA: Carlton Pub, 2005. First. Hard Cover with DVD. Photos & Maps. 11 x 12 x 1-1/2 " 1844424898 2005 Boxed Set of Book with DVD + more ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... STILL SEALED in publisher's shrinkwrap ... this one has portion shrinkwrap missing from front ... Box is untouched underneath ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... This is a big , handsome box set , 11 x 12" in size, weighing 3-1/2 pounds ... Book 64 pages + package contains more than 200 Photographs + 11 Maps + DVD of Nuclear Defence information films + rare removable facsimiles of documents and Memorabilia , from museums around the world , many published here for the first time ... This is a fascinating package, about a thrilling and dangerous time in world history ... The so-called ' Cold War ' ... which was only called that, because no-one, Thank God, pushed the ' hot ' button ... To do so would have meant nuclear disaster of unthinkable proportions ... After World War Two, our greatest allies against Hitler, and the country who suffered the most fighting against the Nazi menace was Russia ... but she slammed down what Winston Churchill called the ' Iron Curtain ' , on the Soviet Union ... and the ' war ' was on ... It was a stare-down, and a stalemate, ' fought ' with secret agents and espionage on a scale not seen before ... Real life spies carried out missions like something out of James Bond movies ... but the stakes were deadly, and were for real ... Governments in the United States and Great Britain, and in Russia, devoted enormous sums of money and manpower ... and oft-times woman-power ... to spying on each other, and in luring double-agents to come back in from the cold , and to bring their secrets with them ... Was it simply Communists against Capitalists ? ... Were there really reds under the beds ? ... What was behind the Berlin Wall ? ... How did the Koreans get involved ... and who was backing them ? ... Who was in the ' Axis of Evil ' voluntarily , and who against their will ? ... and which of our former friends were now our enemies ? ... This tells the whole true story ... from the Berlin Airlift , through the Korean War ... the armed repression of Hungary , and of East Germany , in the 1950s ... the Berlin Wall ... the Cuban missile crisis ... the Arms Race ... Czechoslovakia ... Glasnost ... Perestroika ... the Russians in Afghanistan ... McCarthyism in America ... the revoltions in Eastern Europe ... and the ultimate collapse of the ' Evil Empire ', the old Soviet Union ... The cast of characters could have come out of a John le Carre novel ... but they were real ... Soviet leaders like Kruschev , Boris Yeltsin , Gorbachev ... and American presidents , determined to rid the world of the Communist menace and make the world safe for democracy ... Was it President John F. Kennedy who saved the world , in the Bay of Pigs incident ? ... or was it Ronald Reagan who ultimately brought down the USSR when he said- " Mr. Gorbachev , tear down this wall ! " ... Author Norman Friedman is a defence analyst, and he has done his research well, providing new information here which has never been publicly delved into in such depth ... Absolutely essential package for the student or historian ... for those who remember the Cold War, and for those seeking to understand it, and to know how it has shaped, and in many ways, continues to shape, our world today ... " The Cold War Experience - 1945 - 1991 " ... by Norman Friedman ... Box Set of Book, DVD & documents & memorabilia , photographs & maps & more ... *. New/New . USD 54.95** [Appr.: EURO 36.75 \| £UK 33.25 \| JP¥ 4850] Book number: 6356 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	FRIEDMAN , NORMAN ED. Cold War Experience , the - 1945 - 1991 - Box Set of Book + Dvd + Documents & Memorabilia USA: Carlton Pub, 2005. First. Hard Cover with DVD. Photos & Maps. 11 x 12 x 1-1/2 " 1844424898 2005 Boxed Set of Book with DVD + more ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... STILL SEALED in original publisher's shrinkwrap ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... This is a big , handsome box set , 11 x 12" size, weighing 3-1/2 pounds ... Book 64 pages + package contains more than 200 Photographs + 11 Maps + DVD of Nuclear Defence information films + rare removable facsimiles of documents and Memorabilia , from museums around the world , many published here for the first time ... This is a fascinating package, about a thrilling and dangerous time in world history ... The so-called ' Cold War ' ... which was only called that, because no-one, Thank God, pushed the ' hot ' button ... To do so would have meant nuclear disaster of unthinkable proportions ... After World War Two, our greatest allies against Hitler, and the country who suffered the most fighting against the Nazi menace was Russia ... but she slammed down what Winston Churchill called the ' Iron Curtain ' , on the Soviet Union ... and the ' war ' was on ... It was a stare-down, and a stalemate, ' fought ' with secret agents and espionage on a scale not seen before ... Real life spies carried out missions like something out of James Bond movies ... but the stakes were deadly, and were for real ... Governments in the United States and Great Britain, and in Russia, devoted enormous sums of money and manpower ... and oft-times woman-power ... to spying on each other, and in luring double-agents to come back in from the cold , and to bring their secrets with them ... Was it simply Communists against Capitalists ? ... Were there really reds under the beds ? ... What was behind the Berlin Wall ? ... How did the Koreans get involved ... and who was backing them ? ... Who was in the ' Axis of Evil ' voluntarily , and who against their will ? ... and which of our former friends were now our enemies ? ... This tells the whole true story ... from the Berlin Airlift , through the Korean War ... the armed repression of Hungary , and of East Germany , in the 1950s ... the Berlin Wall ... the Cuban missile crisis ... the Arms Race ... Czechoslovakia ... Glasnost ... Perestroika ... the revoltions in Eastern Europe ... and the collapse of the ' Evil Empire ', the old Soviet Union ... The cast of characters could have come out of a John le Carre novel ... but they were real ... Soviet leaders like Kruschev , Boris Yeltsin , Gorbachev ... and American presidents , determined to rid the world of the Communist menace and make the world safe for democracy ... Was it President John F. Kennedy who saved the world , in the Bay of Pigs incident ? ... or was it Ronald Reagan who ultimately brought down the USSR when he said- " Mr. Gorbachev , tear down this wall ! " ... Author Norman Friedman is a defence analyst, and he has done his research well, providing new information here which has never been publicly delved into in such depth ... Absolutely essential package for the student or historian ... for those who remember the Cold War, and for those seeking to understand it, and to know how it has shaped, and in many ways, continues to shape, our world today ... " The Cold War Experience - 1945 - 1991 " ... by Norman Friedman ... Box Set of Book, DVD & documents & memorabilia , photographs & maps & more ... *. New/New . USD 59.95** [Appr.: EURO 40 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5291] Book number: 6356a Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	NORDSTROM, CAROLYN Different Kind of War Story , a . . . ( the Ethnography of Political Violence Series ) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9 -1/2 x 1 " 0812234065 1997 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New, non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 272 pages with bibliography & index ... illustrated with B&W Photographs ... This is the first book in the University of Pennsylvania Press series on 'The Ethnography of Political Violence.' The Series explores the lived realities of resistance and terror today, and critically examines the methods and ethics of doing anthropology in arenas of conflict. The Series serves as a forum for debate on the nature of violence and the cultural contexts of political action, and offers an outlet for the growing body of ethnographic research on the violent conflicts that are shaping our world. How do people understand and survive programs of state terror? ... How is resistance to terror conceptualized and carried out? How are violent actions interpreted by their perpetrators and by the victims? ... Ethongraphers, approaching these topices at the grass roots level , can citically complement the work of political scientists, historians, and other scholars of conflict through their unique attention to culture and experience ... 'The Ethnography of Political Violence Series ' is offered in this context as an anthropological contribution to the understanding - and eventual resolution - of the violent conflicts that span the globe today ... Includes : Creativity, Violence & the Scholar ; Living on the Frontlines; The Grotesque and the Terror-able - The Ultimate Defeat of War ; Identity and Imagination; Mundus Imaginalas : The Creation of Self and World ; Unmasking Violence .... " A Different Kind of War Story " by Carolyn Nordstrom ... published by The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 39.95** [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3526] Book number: 5988 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	VENTER, AL J. Iraqi War Debrief, the . . . Why Saddam Hussein Was Toppled South Africa: Earthbound, 2004. 2004 Printing. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 0620307242 2004 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked .... Gift Giving quality ... 340 pages ...The Iraqi War Debrief takes a searching and critical look at Iraq and related Middle East developments - particularly the huge armory of weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was said to have accumulated over the past twenty years ... The book provides an intrusive and pertinent insight into how a small country like Iraq - with deceit, guile and duplicity - could accumulate enough chemical, biological and nuclear assets to threaten the security of millions of people across a huge region east of Suez ... It also casts a critical eye at what appears to be similar developments shaping right now in Iraq's traditional enemy, Iran ... " The Iraqi War Debrief ... Why Saddam Hussein Was Toppled" ... by Al J. Venter ... published by Earthbound , South Africa ... in English only ... 2004 Softcover *. NEW . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 5497 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	VOLKMAN, ERNEST History of Espionage, the - the Clandestine World of Surveillance, Spying and Intelligence, from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 World London: Carlton, 2007. First Edition, 1st printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos Throughout. 9-1/4 x 11-1/2 x 3/4 " 1844420566 2007 First Edition GLOSSY HARDCOVER in matching DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... We've protected the Jacket for you in a New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... imported from London ... This is a great big heavy handsome book ... over 9 x 11" size, weighing nearly 3 pounds ... 224 pages with Glossary & index ... illustrated throughout with paintings and photographs of historical figures in espionage; everyone from Mata Hari to Alan Turing to Ian Flemming to Allan Pinkerton, and many more ... Ernest Volkman is a military intelligence specialist, and respected author, broadcaster, and correspondent ... He has written many books on the subject of spies and spying ... but he may have outdone himself on this one ! ... This is the ultimate story of spies ... it tells what they do, and how they really work ... While the golden age of spying reached its zenith during the Cold War, spies have been documented as far back as Biblical times, and have been used in ever war since, and are not considered essential to any country's national defence ... The earliest recorded use of spies, up to today's survellience society, is covered in this book ... which includes : Military Scouts, captured documents, bugging devices, honey traps, hidden tunnels, secret camers and poison ... and a whole host of characters thorugh a thousand-year span, including Hannibal, Christopher Marlowe, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Litvinenko, and many many more ... The true story of subterfuge, of wars won ... and lost ... and how governments around the world have spent, and continue to spend, billions on security and intelligence gathering ... with many pictures, illustrations and maps ... Hours of entertainment ... " The History of Espionage - The Clandestine World of Surveillance, Spying and intelligence, from ancient times to the post-9/11 world " ... by Ernest Volkman ... published by Carlton, London 2007 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. New/New . USD 31.95** [Appr.: EURO 21.5 \| £UK 19.25 \| JP¥ 2820] Book number: 6483 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	VOLKMAN, ERNEST History of Espionage, the - the Clandestine World of Surveillance, Spying and Intelligence, from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 World London: Carlton, 2007. First Edition, 1st printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos Throughout. 9-1/4 x 11-1/2 x 3/4 " 1844420566 2007 First Edition GLOSSY HARDCOVER in matching DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... We've protected the Jacket for you in a New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... imported from London ... This is a great big heavy handsome book ... over 9 x 11" size, weighing nearly 3 pounds ... 224 pages with Glossary & index ... illustrated throughout with paintings and photographs of historical figures in espionage; everyone from Mata Hari to Alan Turing to Ian Flemming to Allan Pinkerton, and many more ... Ernest Volkman is a military intelligence specialist, and respected author, broadcaster, and correspondent ... He has written many books on the subject of spies and spying ... but he may have outdone himself on this one ! ... This is the ultimate story of spies ... it tells what they do, and how they really work ... While the golden age of spying reached its zenith during the Cold War, spies have been documented as far back as Biblical times, and have been used in ever war since, and are not considered essential to any country's national defence ... The earliest recorded use of spies, up to today's survellience society, is covered in this book ... which includes : Military Scouts, captured documents, bugging devices, honey traps, hidden tunnels, secret camers and poison ... and a whole host of characters thorugh a thousand-year span, including Hannibal, Christopher Marlowe, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Litvinenko, and many many more ... The true story of subterfuge, of wars won ... and lost ... and how governments around the world have spent, and continue to spend, billions on security and intelligence gathering ... with many pictures, illustrations and maps ... Hours of enjoyment ... " The History of Espionage - The Clandestine World of Surveillance, Spying and intelligence, from ancient times to the post-9/11 world " ... by Ernest Volkman ... published by Carlton, London 2007 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. New/New . USD 31.95** [Appr.: EURO 21.5 \| £UK 19.25 \| JP¥ 2820] Book number: 6483a Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.