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Covert Legions
Author | : Thomas Boghardt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
Covert Legions is the history of the U.S. Army's intelligence organization in Germany from the Allies' arrival in late 1944 to the end of the military government in 1949. It covers Army intelligence operations during this period, including denazification and democratization, the capture of German scientists and scientific technology, and espionage and counterespionage activity against local communist organizations and the Soviet occupation forces
Presidents' Secret Wars
Author | : John Prados |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee Publisher |
Total Pages | : 818 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
In this newly revised and updated edition of his essential work, John Prados adds his concluding findings on U.S. covert operations in Angola, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and the Persian Gulf. Acclaimed as a landmark book about U.S. intelligence agencies in the postwar era, Presidents' Secret Wars describes the secret warfare mounted by the president, the CIA, and the Pentagon--operations aimed at altering the destinies of nations and the course of global politics. Mr. Prados uses many newly declassified documents to open a vital window on this most secret aspect of American foreign policy. "A worthy and informative book"--Washington Post. "An important book....Prados's recounting of the often neglected early days of the C.I.A. and its covert activities is especially enlightening."--New York Times Book Review. "For those concerned with the study of intelligence, Presidents' Secret Wars will be highly useful because Dr. Prados has done serious archival research....This volume moves the study of covert operations to a higher and more sophisticated plane"--Intelligence and National Security.
Getting the message through: A Branch History of the U.S. Army Signal Corps
Author | : Rebecca Robbins Raines |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780160872815 |
Getting the Message Through, the companion volume to Rebecca Robbins Raines' Signal Corps, traces the evolution of the corps from the appointment of the first signal officer on the eve of the Civil War, through its stages of growth and change, to its service in Operation DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM. Raines highlights not only the increasingly specialized nature of warfare and the rise of sophisticated communications technology, but also such diverse missions as weather reporting and military aviation. Information dominance in the form of superior communications is considered to be sine qua non to modern warfare. As Raines ably shows, the Signal Corps--once considered by some Army officers to be of little or no military value--and the communications it provides have become integral to all aspects of military operations on modern digitized battlefields. The volume is an invaluable reference source for anyone interested in the institutional history of the branch.
Foreign Legions
Author | : David Drake |
Publisher | : Baen Books |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0671319906 |
Set in the universe of "Ranks of Bronze, Foreign Legions" presents masterful new novellas by David Drake, Eric Flint, S.M. Stirling, Marl L. Van Name, and David Weber. "David Drake is now the king of military science fiction".--"Philadelphia Weekly Press".
U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949
Author | : Thomas Boghardt |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 2023-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110988763 |
Based on extensive archival research in six countries and intensive fieldwork, the book analyzes the history of the village of Nkholongue on the eastern (Mozambican) shores of Lake Malawi from the time of its formation in the 19th century to the present day. The study uses Nkholongue as a microhistorical lens to examine such diverse topics as the slave trade, the spread of Islam, colonization, subsistence production, counter-insurgency, decolonization, civil war, ecotourism, and matriliny. Thereby, the book attempts to reflect as much as possible on the generalizability and (global) comparability of local findings by framing analyses in historiographical discussions that aim to go beyond the regional or national level. Although the chapters of the book deal with very different topics, they are united by a common interest in the social history of rural Africa in the longue durée. Contrary to persistent clichés of rural inertia in Africa, the book as a whole underscores the profound changeability of social conditions and relations in Nkholongue over the years and highlights how people’s room for maneuver kept changing as a result of the Winds of History, the frequent and often violent ruptures brought to the village from outside.
Safe for Democracy
Author | : John Prados |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1566635748 |
"Safe for Democracy not only relates the inside stories of covert operations but examines in meticulous detail the efforts of presidents and Congress to control the CIA and the specific choices made in the agency's secret wars. Along the way Mr. Prados offers radically revised interpretations of classic operations like Iran, Guatemala, Chile, and the Bay of Pigs; accounts of lesser-known projects like Tibet and Angola; and virtually unknown tales of the CIA in Guyana and Ghana. He supplies full details of Reagan-era operations in Nicaragua and Afghanistan, and brings the story up to date with accounts of more recent activities in Somalia, Bosnia, and Iraq, all the while keeping American foreign policy goals in view."--Jacket.
Legions of Rome
Author | : Stephen Dando-Collins |
Publisher | : Quercus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849167915 |
No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force. The author has spent the last thirty years collecting every scrap of available evidence from numerous sources: stone and bronze inscriptions, coins, papyrus and literary accounts in a remarkable feat of historical detective work. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 provides a detailed account of what the legionaries wore and ate, what camp life was like, what they were paid and how they were motivated and punished. The section also contains numerous personal histories of individual soldiers. Part 2 offers brief unit histories of all the legions that served Rome for 300 years from 30BC. Part 3 is a sweeping chronological survey of the campaigns in which the armies were involved, told from the point of view of particular legions. Lavish, authoritative and beautifully produced, Legions of Rome will appeal to ancient history enthusiasts and military history buffs alike.
Spies of the Kaiser
Author | : T. Boghardt |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2004-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230508421 |
Spies of the Kaiser examines the scope and objectives of German covert operations in Great Britain before and during the First World War. It assesses the effect of German espionage on Anglo-German relations and discusses the extent to which the fear of German espionage in the United Kingdom shaped the British intelligence community in the early Twentieth-century. The study is based on original archival material, including hitherto unexploited German records and recently declassified British documents.
The Book of Legions
Author | : James A. Moore |
Publisher | : White Wolf Pub |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781565046528 |
There's a war on, and the second you die you're drafted. After all, according to the Deathlords, everyone belongs to the Legions. Here are the secrets of Stygia's Legions -- their triumphs, defeats and covert operations. Discover the true nature of the Order of the Unlidded Eye, perhaps the one force in the Empire that even the Deathlords fear. The Book of Legions is the best preparation you can get for the war against Oblivion.