Book & podcast collection

The Secret World: A History of Intelligence

byChristopher Andrew

The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The argument in The Secret World develops through archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, attending to both broad patterns and the revealing details that resist them. That perspective connects the history of intelligence to larger questions in political science, without losing sight of the people living through the consequences. Rather than reducing its subject to a single lesson, The Secret World preserves its contradictions and shows why they remain important.

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

Sep 10, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

960

ISBN

9780300248296