Classical Spies

Author : Susan Heuck Allen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0472035398

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Classical Spies by Susan Heuck Allen Pdf

“Classical Spies will be a lasting contribution to the discipline and will stimulate further research. Susan Heuck Allen presents to a wide readership a topic of interest that is important and has been neglected.” —William M. Calder III, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Classical Spies is the first insiders’ account of the operations of the American intelligence service in World War II Greece. Initiated by archaeologists in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, the network drew on scholars’ personal contacts and knowledge of languages and terrain. While modern readers might think Indiana Jones is just a fantasy character, Classical Spies disclosesevents where even Indy would feel at home: burying Athenian dig records in an Egyptian tomb, activating prep-school connections to establish spies code-named Vulture and Chickadee, and organizing parachute drops. Susan Heuck Allen reveals remarkable details about a remarkable group of individuals. Often mistaken for mild-mannered professors and scholars, such archaeologists as University of Pennsylvania’s Rodney Young, Cincinnati’s Jack Caskey and Carl Blegen, Yale’s Jerry Sperling and Dorothy Cox, and Bryn Mawr’s Virginia Grace proved their mettle as effective spies in an intriguing game of cat and mouse with their Nazi counterparts. Relying on interviews with individuals sharing their stories for the first time, previously unpublished secret documents, private diaries and letters, and personal photographs, Classical Spies offers an exciting and personal perspective on the history of World War II.

Author : André Gerolymatos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498583398

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Espionage and Treason in Classical Greece by André Gerolymatos Pdf

This history of ancient diplomacy demonstrates how the ancient Greeks used guest-friendship as a mechanism of diplomacy. Ancient proxenoi were the equivalent of contemporary consul-generals and they served some of the same purposes. The proxenoi conducted the diplomatic affairs of the state they represented and looked after the interests of the city-state that had adopted them. In times of war the proxenoi maintained spies and supplied intelligence on the movements of fleets and armies.

Author : Monte Reel
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101910429

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A Brotherhood of Spies by Monte Reel Pdf

A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disaster On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between the two nations. The CIA concocted a cover story for President Eisenhower to deliver, assuring him that no one could have survived a fall from that altitude. And even if pilot Francis Gary Powers had survived, he had been supplied with a poison pin with which to commit suicide. But against all odds, Powers emerged from the wreckage and was seized by the KGB. He confessed to espionage charges, revealing to the world that Eisenhower had just lied to the American people--and to the Soviet Premier. Infuriated, Nikita Khrushchev slammed the door on a rare opening in Cold War relations. In A Brotherhood of Spies, award-winning journalist Monte Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War and carved a new mission for the CIA. This secret fraternity, made up of Edwin Land, best known as the inventor of instant photography and the head of Polaroid Corporation; Kelly Johnson, a hard-charging taskmaster from Lockheed; Richard Bissell, the secretive and ambitious spymaster; and ace Air Force flyer Powers, set out to replace yesterday's fallible human spies with tomorrow's undetectable eye in the sky. Their clandestine successes and all-too-public failures make this brilliantly reported account a true-life thriller with the highest stakes and tragic repercussions.

Author : Helias Doundoulakis
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781669810414

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The Arecibo Antenna by Helias Doundoulakis Pdf

The Arecibo Radio Telescope (Arecibo) has made amazing findings that would otherwise have remained undiscovered. Yet, Arecibo’s inception is shrouded in mystery: unknown is the true story behind its creation, secret for all these years. Until now. In his final book, Helias Doundoulakis demystifies Arecibo for the novice, from dreams to drawings. The chronological account of the iconic telescope is made plain for all to see, which spanned six decades. Read how his brother, George Doundoulakis, undertook its conception and fielding, finally winning patent rights for his brother Helias, CIA director William Casey, and Gus Michalos. Follow the inseparable brothers on their journey of courage, inspiration, and brilliance that advanced the design of Arecibo and inspired generations of space scientists for years to come.

Author : Gregory Afinogenov
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674246577

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Spies and Scholars by Gregory Afinogenov Pdf

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The untold story of how Russian espionage in imperial China shaped the emergence of the Russian Empire as a global power. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire made concerted efforts to collect information about China. It bribed Chinese porcelain-makers to give up trade secrets, sent Buddhist monks to Mongolia on intelligence-gathering missions, and trained students at its Orthodox mission in Beijing to spy on their hosts. From diplomatic offices to guard posts on the Chinese frontier, Russians were producing knowledge everywhere, not only at elite institutions like the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. But that information was secret, not destined for wide circulation. Gregory Afinogenov distinguishes between the kinds of knowledge Russia sought over the years and argues that they changed with the shifting aims of the state and its perceived place in the world. In the seventeenth century, Russian bureaucrats were focused on China and the forbidding Siberian frontier. They relied more on spies, including Jesuit scholars stationed in China. In the early nineteenth century, the geopolitical challenge shifted to Europe: rivalry with Britain drove the Russians to stake their prestige on public-facing intellectual work, and knowledge of the East was embedded in the academy. None of these institutional configurations was especially effective in delivering strategic or commercial advantages. But various knowledge regimes did have their consequences. Knowledge filtered through Russian espionage and publication found its way to Europe, informing the encounter between China and Western empires. Based on extensive archival research in Russia and beyond, Spies and Scholars breaks down long-accepted assumptions about the connection between knowledge regimes and imperial power and excavates an intellectual legacy largely neglected by historians.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132183463

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Studies in Intelligence by Anonim Pdf

Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026850595

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THE DOUBLE TRAITOR (Spy Thriller Classic) by E. Phillips Oppenheim Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE DOUBLE TRAITOR (Spy Thriller Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Double Traitor is one of the greatest First World War spy novels. In the thrilling plot the main focus remains on the European political intrigues. E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions.

Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026850601

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The Pawns Count (Spy Thriller Classic) by E. Phillips Oppenheim Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Pawns Count (Spy Thriller Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "He smiled for a moment, and Pamela felt unreasonably annoyed at the twinkle in his eyes. "I am not a soldier by profession," he said, "but I went out with the Expeditionary Force and had a year of it. They kept me here, after a slight wound, to take up my old work again." "Your old work," she repeated. "I didn't know there was such a thing as a Ministry of Munitions before the war." (Extract) E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions.

Author : Alexander Foote
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789122268

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Handbook for Spies by Alexander Foote Pdf

Seeking adventure, British citizen Alexander Foote fought the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Returning home after it ended, discouraged by the result, Foote was recruited into a Soviet network of spies against Nazi Germany. Based in Switzerland, Foote eventually became responsible for maintaining the network and forwarding information to the Centre in Russia. Foote describes for us how the network operated, including codes and secret transmissions, hiding from Swiss and German authorities, recruiting and funding, and eluding double agents. All the while, Foote watches Soviet Russia, presumably an ally to the free nations, become more and more like the Fascists Foote opposes. Eventually captured by Swiss police, Foote is debriefed in Russia, but manages to escape home to Britain after persuading the Soviets to send him on another mission. This is a fascinating story that illuminates a key part of the secret espionage networks undertaken during World War II.

Author : Kaushik Roy,Peter Lorge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317587101

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Chinese and Indian Warfare - From the Classical Age to 1870 by Kaushik Roy,Peter Lorge Pdf

This book examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and India before 1870, both conceptually and on the battlefield. By focusing on Chinese and Indian warfare, the book breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring non-Western histories and cultures to be compared to the West, and allows scholarship on two of the oldest civilizations to be brought together. An international group of scholars compare and contrast the modes and conceptions of warfare in China and India, providing important original contributions to the growing study of Asian military history.

Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026850588

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The Kingdom of the Blind (Spy Thriller Classic) by E. Phillips Oppenheim Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Kingdom of the Blind (Spy Thriller Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Kingdom of the Blind is one of the greatest thrillers by E. Phillips Oppenheim. You will enter into the world of Second World War spies and reveal the thrilling secrets of contra espionage efforts made by Germany and England. E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions.

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026851530

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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS (Spy Thriller Classic) by John Buchan Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: “THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS (Spy Thriller Classic)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. “I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick . . .” (Extract) Major-General Sir Richard Hannay is a character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and based on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War. In this adventure espionage classic Richard Hannay is buttonholed by an American stranger who knows of an anarchist plot to assassinate the Greek Premier during his forthcoming visit to London. It is now up to Hannay to save the day and stop Europe from destabilising. John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers and it is for these that he is now best remembered.

Author : Jack L. Davis,Vasiliki Florou,Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan
Publisher : Lockwood Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781937040246

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Carl W. Blegen by Jack L. Davis,Vasiliki Florou,Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan Pdf

Carl Blegen is the most famous American archaeologist ever to work in Greece, and no American has ever had a greater impact on Greek archaeology. Yet Blegen, unlike several others of his generation, has found no biographer. In part, the explanation for this must lie in the fact that his life was so multifaceted: not only was he instrumental in creating the field of Aegean prehistory, but Blegen, his wife, and their best friends, the Hills ("the family"), were also significant forces in the social and intellectual community of Athens. Authors who have contributed to this book have each researched one aspect of Blegen's life, drawing on copious documentation in the United States, England, and Greece. The result is a biography that sets Blegen and his closest colleagues in the social and academic milieu that gave rise to the discipline of classical archaeology in Greece.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : UCAL:$B687749

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Reform of the Federal Criminal Laws: Provisions relating to attempt, complicity, conspiracy, drugs, government operations, Indians, insanity, intoxication, jurisdiction, national security, obscenity, and offenses against the person by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures Pdf

Author : Kostis Karpozilos
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800738560

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Red America by Kostis Karpozilos Pdf

Historians of immigration and ethnicity in the United States have typically devoted little attention to Greek Americans, while popular narratives depict them as indifferent or hostile to political and social radicalism. From acclaimed historian Kostis Karpozilos, Red America provides an alternative narrative of the Greek American experience. Focusing on the history of the Greek American Left from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Cold War, this volume uncovers the threads that bound notions of radical social change to everyday immigrant life, tracing ethnic radicalism from the boundaries of a specific community to the epicenter of American social and political history.