Spy and Counterspy by Ian Dear

Spy and Counterspy by Ian Dear

The shadowy world of supposedly legalized spying has an enduring fascination for us all. Spy and Counterspy reveals for the first time the web of spies that spanned the globe during and after the Second World War, working for organisations like MI5 & MI6, the CIA & OSS, Soviet Smersh & NKVD, Japanese Tokko and the German Gestapo. These men and women lived extraordinary lives, always on the edge of exposure and the risk of death. Many of them were so in love with the Great Game of espionage that they betrayed their countries and acted as double and sometimes even triple agents in a complex deception that threatened the very grasp of power in government. Their war in the shadows remained unrecognized until today.

IAN DEAR is an historian with an unusual background in covert warfare. He served in the Royal Marines beofre working in the film and book publishing industries. He became a full time writer in 1979 specializing in military and maritime history and has written a vast number of books on secret operations of the war, including Marines at War, Escape and Evasion and Sabotage and Subversion (both The History Press) and Ten Commando. He spent five years as general editor of The Oxford Companion to World War II and co-edited, with the late Peter Kemp, The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea.

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ISBN 13	9780752459912
ISBN 10	0752459910
Title	Spy and Counterspy
Author	Ian Dear
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The History Press Ltd
Year published	2013-07-01
Number of pages	256
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