lordcheez's review against another edition
5.0
Incredible piece of history, incredibly engaging, fascinating stuff.
omnibozo22's review against another edition
3.0
For anyone who's read history or lots of true/fictional espionage stories, this was awful dry. The prof gets fairly wrapped up in his stories, but failed to provide much of real interest beyond some specific examples that I hadn't read about. None of which struck me as significant he felt they were. No bad, if you need a general history.
testname's review against another edition
2.0
This course is broad, covering dates from about as far back as history can allow and extending up to the present day. Unfortunately, the course is also incredibly shallow. Much of the course felt like it was "phoned in" with a few sentences here and there about something before moving on. I suppose this is a survey course but if you have read much else then it seems a bit of a grind. As an audiobook, I don't want to have to go to the accompanying PDF to see if there are citations and suggested reading but felt the lectures mentioned things that I'd really like to hear the works cited. It overall had the feeling of a highschool essay that went down Wikipedia. I think this course could have been greatly expanded upon.
libra17's review against another edition
5.0
An excellent overview of espionage over the course of history. I learned a lot and it gave me a lot to think about.
harmony's review against another edition
5.0
Very interesting material with decent presentation. I had no idea Ian Flemming was actually a spy before he was am author, so that's cool. I wish the presentation was newer since there's a LOT of espionage going around, but he only gets as far forward as Snowden and didn't even mention him by name. I'd recommend this for anyone interested in spy craft. Neat stuff!
matth's review against another edition
5.0
Finished a couple weeks ago.
Having had some time to think about it, I can say that it’s a great overview of the subject but left me wanting more. This is not a negative. It made me curious to explore the topic more in the future.
Having had some time to think about it, I can say that it’s a great overview of the subject but left me wanting more. This is not a negative. It made me curious to explore the topic more in the future.
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