Peculiar Liaisons: In War, Espionage, and Terrorism in the Twentieth CenturyAlgora Publishing, 2005 - 250 páginas Presenting famous and infamous individuals and events that shocked the world and helped set the scene for today's history, this book illustrates how little is really known about some of the most dramatic and most-studied events. Who motivated whom, how and why, and what counterplots and alternative scenarios may have been at play? "Terrorism," the fomenting of revolution, undermining from within, and trumped up events to spur a nation to go to war: these techniques are not new. The public's interest in certain personalities never seems to wane -- Mata Hari, Gavrilo Princip, Sidney Reilly, T.E. Lawrence, Jimmy Doolittle, Hitler, Reinhard Heydrich and Lee Harvey Oswald among others. Each chapter presents two or three characters and elaborates on their lives and how they relate to historical events in the 20th century. The book starts with an incident in 1903 in the Balkans and moves chronologically forward to the assassination of JFK |
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3 Tactical Deception Lawrence of Arabia The Haversack Trick and Operation Mincemeat | 77 |
4 Strikes Against the Axis Powers | 111 |
5 The Dirge of the Black Orchestra | 135 |
6 The Dark Secrets of Nazi Intelligence | 169 |
7 The Assassination of JFK | 197 |
Selected Bibliography | 243 |
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Peculiar Liaisons: In War, Espionage, and Terrorism in the Twentieth Century John S. Craig Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abwehr agent Alexander Allies American anti-Castro Apis Arab Archduke Army arrested assassination atomic attack Auda Austrian Balkan Banister became believed Berlin biographer Black Hand Bolsheviks bomb British intelligence called Canaris Carlos Marcello century claimed Clay Shaw command communist conspirators created Cuban Dallas David David Ferrie death deception Diary documents Doolittle enemy espionage Europe eventually executed Ferdinand Ferrie Ferrie’s French Garrison Gavrilo Gavrilo Princip George German Germany’s Greek Guy Banister heavy water Heydrich Himmler Hitler HSCA investigation Jewish Jews Kennedy killed knew known Ladoux Lawrence’s Lenin Lockhart London MacLeod Marcello Martin Mata Hari Meinertzhagen military million murder Nazi never November numerous officers Operation organization Orleans Oswald Philby plot president Princip Reich Reilly’s Reinhard Heydrich Richard Russia Russo Sarajevo secret Serbian Serbs Shaw shot Sidney Reilly Skorzeny soldiers Soviet spies Stauffenberg T.E. Lawrence told troops Turks Vemork World wrote York Young Bosnians
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Página 78 - All men dream — but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
Página 4 - We go to gain a little patch of ground That hath in it no profit but the name.
Página 30 - Austria-Hungary ; but that Government has not actually engaged in warfare against citizens of the United States on the seas, and I take the liberty, for the present at least, of postponing a discussion of our relations with the authorities at Vienna. We enter this war only where we are clearly forced into it because there are no other means of defending our rights.
Página 86 - For, Lord, I was free of all Thy flowers, but I chose the world's sad roses, And that is why my feet are torn and mine eyes are blind with sweat...
Página 95 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. She...
Página 170 - Insanity in individuals is something rare — but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Página 200 - In jumping broke my leg. I passed all his pickets. Rode sixty miles that night, with the bone of my leg tearing the flesh at every jump. I can never repent it, though we hated to kill. Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment.
Página 101 - In short, so far as Palestine is concerned, the Powers have made no statement of fact which is not admittedly wrong, and no declaration of policy which, at least in the letter, they have not always intended to violate.
Página 170 - In wartime Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.