The Intelligencers

Author : B. A. H. Parritt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Espionage
ISBN : UVA:X000931903

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The Intelligencers by B. A. H. Parritt Pdf

Author : Brian Parritt
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844683642

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The Intelligencers by Brian Parritt Pdf

Intelligence about the enemy is a fundamental part of any war or battle; knowledge of the enemys strength, dispositions and intentions are essential for success. This book reveals that for 250 years the British Army resolutely failed to prepare for war by refusing to establish a nucleus of soldiers in peace, trained to obtain intelligence in war. Although there were Scoutmasters and secret spy organizations such as Walsinghams in the 15th Century, in no major conflict from the Civil War of 1642, including the Peninsula, the Crimea, Burma, Egypt and South Africa and in the multitude of small wars that gained Britain an empire, was there any staff branch or unit specifically pre-established to gain intelligence or frustrate the enemy from obtaining intelligence. Yet the story of British military endeavor over 250 years is a remarkable story of individuals bravery, achievement and success. We read of the Scoutmaster whose role was to gather intelligence on the Kings enemies and of Walsinghams secret organization at the time of Elizabeth I. During the long years of war against France culminating in the Napoleonic Wars, spy masters developed on an ad hoc basis. In the Nineteenth Century, despite the power and reach of Empire, no central intelligence organization existed. Enterprising young officers worked wonders but failures such as those in the Boer War cost the Nation dearly. It took the reverses in the Great War to create an Intelligence Corps. But even that was disbanded postwar.

Author : Leslie Silbert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743439862

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On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service. In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment, hoping to find his missing muse, as well as the culprits behind a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In present-day New York, grad student turned private eye Kate Morgan is called in on an urgent matter. One of her firm's top clients, a London-based financier, has chanced upon a mysterious manuscript that had been buried for centuries -- one that someone, somewhere is desperate to steal. What secret lurks in those yellowed, ciphered pages? And how, so many years later, could it drive someone to kill? As Kate sets off for England, she receives a second assignment. An enigmatic art dealer has made an eleven-million-dollar purchase from an Iranian intelligence officer. Is it a black-market antiquities deal, or something far more sinister? Like Marlowe, Kate moonlights as a spy -- her P.I. firm doubles as an off-the-books U.S. intelligence unit -- and she is soon caught like a pawn in a deadly international game. As The Intelligencer's interlocking narratives race toward a stunning collision, and Kate closes in on the truth behind Marlowe's sudden death, it becomes clear that she may have sealed a similar fate for herself. Propelling us from the shadows of the sixteenth-century underworld to the glitter of Queen Elizabeth's court, from the dark corridors of a clandestine American op-center to the cliffs of Capri, The Intelligencer is at once a murder mystery, a tale of poetic inspiration, and a richly detailed foray into parallel worlds of espionage and political intrigue separated by centuries.

Author : Lothar Schilling,Jakob Vogel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110553734

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Transnational Cultures of Expertise by Lothar Schilling,Jakob Vogel Pdf

Building on the new critical historiography about the evolution of the European state, the book analyses how administrators, scientists, popular publicists and other actors tried to redefine the realms of state action in the "Sattelzeit" (Koselleck). By focussing on the specific strategies of these actors and on the transnational circulation and dissemination of state related knowledge itself, the contributors of the book highlight the fluidity and the interconnections of the European debate in the crucial period of the development of the modern nation-state and its administration. They study the common European features of the evolution of a new type of statehood built upon multiple circulations and transfers that forged administrative practices in the different fields of state action. Analysing important fields of expertise ranging from agricultural knowledge, mining sciences to anthropological knowledge, which laid the basis for the new "scientific" foundations of administration, the book underlines the necessity of a re-evaluation of the classical approaches to the history of state in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1768
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:891935-40

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“The” Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, with the Author's Life and Character, Notes Historical, Critical and Explanatory, Table of Contents and Indexes by Jonathan Swift Pdf

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1774
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822043035567

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The Works of Jonath[a]n. Swift ... by Jonathan Swift Pdf

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1774
Category : English literature
ISBN : BL:A0022882175

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The Works of Jonathn. Swift, D.D.: D.S.P.D. by Jonathan Swift Pdf

Author : Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1774
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ZHBL:ZHBL-00072352

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The Works by Swift Pdf

Author : B. A. H. Parritt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Espionage
ISBN : OCLC:505962907

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The Intelligencers by B. A. H. Parritt Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555026061

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Church missionary intelligencer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1755
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015078576108

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The Works of Jonathan Swift ... by Jonathan Swift Pdf

Author : Jonathan Swift,John Hawkesworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1784
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433076095805

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The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin by Jonathan Swift,John Hawkesworth Pdf

Author : Jonathan Swift,John Hawkesworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1766
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433115768032

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The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift,John Hawkesworth Pdf

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1768
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001102974867

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The Works of J. Swift by Jonathan Swift Pdf

Author : Ronnie Pontiac
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781644115596

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American Metaphysical Religion by Ronnie Pontiac Pdf

An in-depth exploration of four centuries of American occult and spiritual history, from colonial-era alchemists to 20th-century teachers • Details how, from the very beginning, America was a vibrant blend of beliefs from all four corners of the world • Looks at well-known figures such as Manly P. Hall and offers riveting portraits of many lesser known esoteric luminaries such as the Pagan Pilgrim, Tom Morton • Reveals the Rosicrucians among the first settlers from England, the spiritual influence of enslaved people, the work of mystical abolitionists, and how Native Americans and Latinx people helped shape contemporary spirituality Most Americans believe the United States was founded by pious Christians. However, as Ronnie Pontiac reveals, from the very beginning America was a vibrant blend of beliefs from all four corners of the world. Based on the latest research, with the assistance of leading scholars, this in-depth exploration of four centuries of American occult and spiritual history looks at everything from colonial-era alchemists, astrologers, and early spiritual collectives to Edgar Cayce, the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, and St. Germain on Mount Shasta. Pontiac shows that Rosicrucians were among the first settlers from England and explores how young women of the Shaker community fell into trances and gave messages from the dead. He details the spiritual influence of the African diaspora, the work of mystical abolitionists, and how Indigenous groups and Latinx people played a large role in the shaping of contemporary spirituality and healing practices. The author looks at well-known figures such as Manly P. Hall and lesser known esoteric luminaries such as the Pagan Pilgrim, Tom Morton. He examines the Aquarian Gospel, the Sekhmet Revival, A Course in Miracles, the School of Ageless Wisdom, and mediumship in the early 20th century. He explores the profound influence of the Bodhi Tree Bookstore in Los Angeles and looks at the evolution of female roles in spirituality across the centuries. He also examines the right wing of American metaphysics from the Silver Legion to QAnon. Revealing the diverse streams that run through America’s metaphysical landscape, Pontiac offers an encyclopedic examination of occult teachers, esotericists, and spiritual collectives almost no one has heard of but who were profoundly influential.