9780743203791 - MI6: inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service de Dorril, Stephen (36 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition.

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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Free Press June 2000 Hardcover with jacket. Residue from removed sticker on jacket front cover. Clean and tight pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. F/VG, used, hc, black boards with silver text to spine, vi-xv, 907 pages. Interior clean, no marks, pages near bright, binding tight. Slight edge wear to dj, small wrinkle and tear to the bottom fore corner of the upper, no chips. I am not familiar with "the free fress" so do not know if they normally place price on their dj-if they do then this is a BCE.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover edition, as pictured. ISBN #0743203798. In like new condition, except slight cover wear.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Condition: Collectible - Like New. Hardcover edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Thick octavo. Fine in fine DJ. Pages: xv, 907.

Hard Cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: DJ Fine. 1st Printing. 880pp. Size: Thick Large Octavo.

Condición: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. (intelligence service, Great Britain).

Hardcover. Condición: As New. NY -Free Press-2000/, pp.906. Index, extensive notes. Mainly deals with Soviet/Communist threat. Very anti-Labor Party; author frequently breaks Official Secrets Act with disclosures. "A remarkable achievement"--Guardian [Mint condition; small black spot on djacket] ISBN 0743203798.

black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first u.s. edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). xv+907p. notes. index. world history. british empire. espionage. covert operations. secret societies. world war ii. cold war. ~ MI6, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, is one of the great information~gathering organizations of the world, internationally renowned as the employer of the mythical but emblematic James Bond. Yet it has remained one of the nation's most elusive organizations. Its head, Richard Dearlove, is virtually unknown~a contemporary photograph has never appeared in the press~and even its true budget is not made public. There is no legal "right to know" what is undertaken abroad in the name of Britain's security, what it costs or how it is run. In the past, any dissident reports of its operations were effectively quashed. To write about MI6 risks harassment and prosecution, as former members and current commentators know to their cost, and the organization has remained veiled from scrutiny. Its inside story has never been told. Until now. Stephen Dorril, a meticulous observer and chronicler of the security services, provides a full fifty~year history for the first time, offering the most complete portrait ever of MI6's motives and character and, crucially, what it has done and where it has been most influential. At the beginning of the Cold War, Britain was a global power literally dividing up the world. By 1992, influence abroad had been lost in the Middle East, most of Africa and large swathes of Asia. Even in Europe, Britain seemed exiled and isolated. What had MI6 been doing? MI6's postwar activities were mired in prewar attitudes and practices, at home in the exclusive clubs of Pall Mall but poorly suited to a retreating post~imperial power. Britain's management of the Cold War was in the itching hands of a mixture of frustrated former members of the wartime Special Operations Executive, desperate for active military engagements, anxious reactionaries and a few socialist devotees for whom communism was the future and spying the career of choice. This is the first operational history of MI6, the first look at the organization in action. With a level of detail unparalleled in the annals of British intelligence, Dorril chronicles the fascinating history from 1949 to the current day. Replete with tales of its most spectacular failures, stirring successes, unsavory plots and bizarre missions, the real~life cloak~and~dagger world is exposed. From the grisly truth about Operation Stalin, which exploited the Russian dictator's paranoia and led to the execution of thousands, to the tunnel MI6 dug beneath the Berlin wall to the recruitment methods, training programs and space~age gadgetry of the modern spy, this definitive history has it all. MI6 is a vital, essential arm of the British state. It is Britain's player at the chessboard of international intelligence~gathering and a key partner to America's superpower status. Dorril's is a searching story of the characters and situations in which the games have been played, from the back streets of Aden to the Brandenburg Gate, the mountains of Albania to the shores of the Black Sea. This is a discreet and riveting history of half a century of international political intriguing, spying and thuggery~all in the name of intelligence.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. End papers are clean. Corners are sharp. The book is square, tight and likely unread. The very thick text block does have some light soil marks and one damp stain at the top of the text block. No owner names or bookplates. The DJ has some light shelf wear. No tears or rips.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good in Dustjacket. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 2000. Free Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0743203798. 880 pages. hardcover. keywords: Espionage England History MI6. DESCRIPTION - An intelligence agency exposE so explosive that the British government tried to stop its publication or the first time ever, MI6, Britain's legendary player at the chessboard of international intelligence-gathering, is revealed in fascinating detail. Fifteen years of painstaking and meticulous research on the notoriously elusive organization comes together in a vivid and shocking portrait that differs radically from the sleek and flawless fictionalized portraits of Her Majesty's Secret Service. This no-holds-barred exposE of the agency's operations and methods describes in riveting detail its impact on the history and politics of the last half century. Stephen Dorril's daring and prodigious research has unearthed startling information, including:; The recruitment of assets and agents of influence around the world; MI6's relationships with national leaders, including Nelson Mandela; A secret deal between London and Washington to keep British troops out of Vietnam; Details about failed plots to assassinate Nasser, Milosevic, and Gaddifi; Why MI6 was unable to provide advance warning of the Iranian Revolution or Argentina's plan to invade the Falklands; MI6's operations to bring Nazi collaborators and war criminals to Britain after the war MI6 lifts the veil surrounding the closely guarded espionage efforts that have shaped and continue to affect our world for better. and for worse. inventory #27135.

Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Printing. 907pp. "For the first time ever, MI6, Britain's legendary player at the chessboard of international intelligence-gathering, is revealed in fascinating detail.The truth about MI6's motives and character, what it has done and where it has been most influential; the inside stories of Britain's most notorious spies, Philby, Blake and Penkowsky, are exposed; the money, the spectacular failures, unsavory plots and bizarre missions; its recruitment programs, training methods and space-age gadgetry are revealed for the first time.

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Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 907pp. "For the first time ever, MI6, Britain's legendary player at the chessboard of international intelligence-gathering, is revealed in fascinating detail.The truth about MI6's motives and character, what it has done and where it has been most influential; the inside stories of Britain's most notorious spies, Philby, Blake and Penkowsky, are exposed; the money, the spectacular failures, unsavory plots and bizarre missions; its recruitment programs, training methods and space-age gadgetry are revealed for the first time.

Condición: New. New.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. First Edition. Like new hard cover edition with like new dust jacket. 1st American Edition. 1st Printing. Clean. Tight binding. No markings. 907 page.

Condición: New.