Peculiar liaisons : in war, espionage, and terrorism in the twentieth century
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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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Black Hand That Ignited World War I
Dragutin Dimitrijevic and Gavrilo Princip
The Balkans
Zoroaster, Judaism, Christ, and Mohammed
The Karadjordje and Obrenovic Dynasties
The Bull and King Alexander Obrenovic
The Balkan Wars
The Obsessions of the Young Bosnians
The Archduke, The Emperor, and the Colonel
A Prince Waiting in Ambush
June 28, 1914
In Reverence for Serbian Assassins of the Past
Investigating the Assassination
The Trial of Princip and the Black Hand Conspirators The Austrian Ultimatum and Russian TreacheryThe Demise of The Bull
Unprecedented World Carnage
Princip, Obilich, and Zerajic
Assassins Passing the Torch
The IMRO, the IRA, and Dada
A Karadjordje Assassinated
Vlada the Chauffeur
2. The Ace and Queen of World War I Spies
Agent Sidney Reilly and Courtesan Mata Hari
Murder in Indonesia
The Poor Dutch Girl Becomes a Liberated European Star
War for the Dancer
Mata Hari the Legend
Revenge on the Courtesan
Mata Hari and Her Search for the Ace of Spies and Lt. Canaris ""Love and Ladoux""""Mata Hari and The Sisterhood of Spies""; ""The Trial and Ruin of the Cosmopolitan Spy""; ""The Mysteries of Mata Hari�s Daughter""; ""Reilly�s Rise""; ""ST-1, ST-25, C, and the Birth of the British Master Spy""; ""The Bolsheviks and the Capitalists""; ""The Rise of the Bolsheviks and Lenin�s Red Terror""; ""Reilly, Lenin, and the Lockhart Plot""; ""Reilly, Savinkov, and the Master of the Spy Book""; ""Targeting Lenin""; ""The Trust and The Window""; ""The Legends and Legacies of the Ace and Queen of Spies"" ""3. Tactical Deception
Lawrence of Arabia, The Haversack Trick, and Operation Mincemeat""""Majors Lawrence, Meinertzhagen, and Martin""; ""Thomas Lawrence, John Hume Ross, and T.E. Shaw""; ""Lawrence, Feisal, and Auda""; ""Aqaba and the Legend of Lawrence""; ""Lawrence�s Nature and The Queen of the Desert""; ""Lawrence, Philby, Reilly, and Saud""; ""Lawrence�s End""; ""Richard Meinertzhagen and The Haversack Trick""; ""The Franks Deceit
A Greek Bearing Gifts""; ""Meinertzhagen and Lawrence""; ""Deceiving Themselves""; ""The Balfour Declaration Deception"" ""A Dead Man Tells Lies
The Man Who Never Was""""Major Martin""; ""Meinertzhagen and Hitler""; ""4. Strikes Against the Axis Powers""; ""General Jimmy Doolittle and Lt. General Knut Haukelid""; ""The Atomic Letters and a Japanese Russo Border War""; ""Doolittle�s Raid on Tokyo""; ""The Tokyo Raid""; ""Churchill and Roosevelt�s Tube Alloys and German Miscalculations""; ""Leif Tronstad""; ""Operation Freshman""; ""Operation Gunnerside and Haukelid�s Final Blow""; ""The Alsos Mission""; ""Agent Moe Berg
Spy Catcher""; ""Impact of the Raid on Vemork""; ""Rescue in Peking""
English
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