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Contesting France
The untold story of how intelligence shaped US perceptions and policy towards France during the early Cold War.
Resistance and Liberation
In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war. Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power, protect the empire, and resuscitate its global influence. While Charles de Gaulle rejected the armistice and launched his offshore crusade to reclaim French honor within the Allied camp, defeatists at Vichy embraced cooperation with the victorious Axis. The book charts the emerging dynamics of la France libre and the Alliance, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation. From the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation, Douglas Porch traces how de Gaulle sought to forge a French army and prevent civil war. He captures the experiences of ordinary French men and women caught up in war and defeat, the choices they made, the trials they endured, and how this has shaped France's memory of those traumatic years.
The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945–1953
After World War I, the U.S. Navy’s brief alliance with the British Royal Navy gave way to disagreements over disarmament, fleet size, interpretations of freedom of the seas, and general economic competition. This go-it-alone approach lasted until the next world war, when the U.S. Navy found itself fighting alongside the British, Canadian, Australian, and other Allied navies until the surrender of Germany and Japan. In The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945–1953, Corbin Williamson explores the transformation this cooperation brought about in the U.S. Navy’s engagement with other naval forces during the Cold War. Like the onetime looming danger of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan,...
Agent Link
Agent Link: The Spy Erased from History examines the life of Willaim Wolfe Weisband. It tells the story of his KGB recruitment and working with codebreakers at the top-secret Army Security Agency. The book reveals his motivations for spying, the extent of America’s losses, how he was caught, and the consequences of his treachery.
The CIA
A celebrated historian of US intelligence uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyze foreign intelligence. But within a few years, the Agency was engaged in other operations: bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling anti-imperial dissenters at home. The Cold War was an obvious reason for this transformation—but not the only one. In The CIA, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford draws on decades of research to show the Agency as part o...
British Exploitation of German Science and Technology, 1943-1949
At the end of the Second World War, Germany lay at the mercy of its occupiers, all of whom launched programmes of scientific and technological exploitation. Each occupying nation sought to bolster their own armouries and industries with the spoils of war, and Britain was no exception. Shrouded in secrecy yet directed at the top levels of government and driven by ingenuity from across the civil service and armed forces, Britain made exploitation a key priority. By examining factories and laboratories, confiscating prototypes and blueprints, and interrogating and even recruiting German experts, Britain sought to utilise the innovations of the last war to prepare for the next. This ground-breaking book tells the full story of British exploitation for the first time, sheds new light on the legacies of the Second World War, and contributes to histories of intelligence, science, warfare and power in the midst of the twentieth century.
İstihbaratın Dönüşümü;Artan Tehditler Ve Enformatik Şoklar Teorisi
Elinizdeki bu kitap, devletler için vazgeçilmez olan istihbarat sistemlerinin ulusal şoklar ve yeni tehditler sonucu oluşan dönüşümünü, yazar tarafından inşa edilen özgün bir teorik yaklaşım ile ele almaktadır. Buna göre ülkelerin istihbarat sistemleri, kimi zaman ulusal şoklarla kimi zaman ise ortaya çıkan yeni iç ve dış tehditlerle değişime uğramaktadır. Eser, bu dönüşümü Amerika’daki 11 Eylül Saldırısı’ndan Türkiye’deki PKK faaliyetlerine ve Rusya’daki Çeçen Savaşlarına kadar, on iki farklı vaka analizi ile ele almaktadır.Doğası gereği gizlilik taşıyan istihbarat faaliyetleri, farklı rejim türlerinde etkinlik ve hesap verebilirli...
Tyrants
A history of tyranny from Achilles to today's jihadists, this volume shows why tyrannical temptation is a permanent danger.
After the Deportation
Examines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.
Endurance and War
Scholars and military practitioners alike have long sought to understand why some country's militaries fight hard when facing defeat while others collapse. In Endurance and War, Jasen Castillo presents a new unifying theory—cohesion theory—to explain why national militaries differ in their staying power. His argument builds on insights from the literatures on group solidarity in general and military effectiveness in particular, which argue that the stronger the ties binding together individuals in a group of any kind, the higher the degree of cohesion that a group will exhibit when taking collective action, including fighting in war. Specifically, he argues that two types of ties determi...
