Studies in Intelligence
About the Book Series
The growing interest in intelligence activities and the opening of hitherto closed archives since the end of the Cold War has stimulated this series of scholarly monographs, wartime memoirs and edited collections. With contributions from leading academics and prominent members of the intelligence community, this series has quickly become the leading forum for the academic study of intelligence.
Twenty-First Century Intelligence
1st Edition
Edited
By Wesley K. Wark
April 22, 2008
Twenty-First Century Intelligence collects the thinking of some of the foremost experts on the future of intelligence in our new century. The essays contained in this volume are set against the backdrop of the transforming events of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Intelligence plays a central ...
Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State
1st Edition
Edited
By R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Jackson, Len Scott
April 07, 2008
This edited volume brings together many of the world’s leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence. The book presents a series of documents, nearly all of which ...
Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods But Verify
1st Edition
By Rose Mary Sheldon
July 10, 2007
Professor Sheldon uses the modern concept of the intelligence cycle to trace intelligence activities in Rome whether they were done by private citizens, the government, or the military. Examining a broad range of activities the book looks at the many types of espionage tradecraft that ...
Hitler's Last Chief of Foreign Intelligence: Allied Interrogations of Walter Schellenberg
1st Edition
Edited
By Reinhard R. Doerries
May 31, 2007
When the curtains fell on the 'Thousand-Year Reich', in May 1945, SS-Brigadefuhrer Walter Schellenberg left for neutral Stockholm, only to be takn shortly thereafter to Frankfurt and London for interogating. The 'Final Report' on the Case of Walter Schellenberg is the revealing product of those ...
Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53: The Information Research Department
1st Edition
By Andrew Defty
April 23, 2007
In the Cold War battle for hearts and minds Britain was the first country to formulate a coordinated global response to communist propaganda. In January 1948, the British government launched a new propaganda policy designed to 'oppose the inroads of communism' by taking the offensive against it.' A...
Special Operations Executive: A New Instrument of War
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Seaman
December 16, 2005
This unique book presents an accurate and reliable assessment of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). It brings together leading authors to examine the organization from a range of key angles. This study shows how historians have built on the first international conference on the SOE at the ...
Intelligence and Strategy: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By John Ferris
August 09, 2005
John Ferris' work in strategic and intelligence history is widely praised for its originality and the breadth of its research. At last his major pioneering articles are now available in this one single volume. In Intelligence and Strategy these essential articles have been fundamentally ...
MI6 and the Machinery of Spying: Structure and Process in Britain's Secret Intelligence
1st Edition
By Philip Davies
December 02, 2004
Philip H. J. Davies is one of a growing number of British academic scholars of intelligence, but the only academic to approach the subject in terms of political science rather than history. He wrote his PhD at the University of Reading on the topic 'Organisational Development of Britain's Secret ...
Our Man in Yugoslavia: The Story of a Secret Service Operative
1st Edition
By Noel Sebastian Ritchie
October 02, 2004
As a fully documented study of a Second World War Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) operative, Our Man in Yugoslavia is absolutely unique. Its subject is Owen Reed, an army officer recruited into SIS in the summer of 1943 and then parachuted in to German-occupied Croatia to work with Tito's ...
Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53: The Information Research Department
1st Edition
By Andrew Defty
September 24, 2004
In the Cold War battle for hearts and minds Britain was the first country to formulate a coordinated global response to communist propaganda. In January 1948, the British government launched a new propaganda policy designed to 'oppose the inroads of communism' by taking the offensive against it.' A...
Understanding Intelligence in the Twenty-First Century: Journeys in Shadows
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Jackson, L.V. Scott
September 01, 2004
Over the past few decades, international history and security have been significantly influenced by greater understanding of the role of intelligence in national security and foreign policy-making. In Britain, much of the work has developed in the subdiscipline of international history with ...
The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-60
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans Krabbendam, Giles Scott-Smith
February 18, 2004
The idea of the Cold War as a propaganda contest as opposed to a military conflict is being increasingly accepted. This has led to a re-evaluation of the relationship between economic policies, political agendas and cultural activities in Western Europe post 1945.This book provides an important ...