Agile, ruthless, cunning, Sir Stewart Menzies was the legendary wartime leader of British intelligence who dominated the world intelligence scene from 1933 to 1952. Photographs.
Another conribution to the literature on Kim Philby and company. This book is a dual biography of Philby and his father Harry St. John Bridger Philby, a noteworthy diplomat, adventurer, and spy himself. The elder Philby was active in Middle Eastern poltics in the early part of the 20th century. He was the first modern explorer to map the Empty ...
In this dual biography of H. St John Philby and his son, Kim Philby, highly dramatic and rich in intimate detail, the book tells the story of two men whose lives were directly opposed to the establishment into which they were born and for which they were bred. The author followed research trails leading from the United States to Great Britain, ...
Using Aramco files never before available to scholars or journalists, dozens of personal interviews, and U.S. and British government documents, Brown recounts the unceasing diplomatic and corporate maneuvers aimed at obtaining this unimaginable wealth, an ongoing drama that involved such figures as the great warrior-king Ibn Saud, founder of the ...
Invited to France by the wife of Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry Adams toured the cathedrals and found in them a sense of identity with his Norman ancestors. Enamored of the 11th and 12th centuries, Adams found contemporary tourism unspeakably horrific. On a visit to Chartres, Adams was nearly transported with wonder at the achievement of medieval man on ...
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: BaNTAM Books
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780553010534ISBN:0553010530
Description: Very Good- No Jacket. Ex-Library Ex-library but has only one small library stamp on front endpaper, no other library markings, Cover has wear & scuffing. No owner marks in text. military hist. read more
Edition: Hardcover
Binding: Fair to Good
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date Published: 1975
Description: Fair to Good in Fair to Good jacket. Hardcover History Volume II of the classic account of Allied deception around the invasion of Normandy in 1944. The dj is tarnished and the book is worn. read more
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