On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World by John Hughes-Wilson

On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World

John Hughes-Wilson

528 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced

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From the ancient Greek and Roman origins of human intelligence to its use in the Catholic church to Francis Walsingham's Elizabethan secret service to the birth of the surveillance state in today's digital hi-tech age, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, ...

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