The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century by Phillip Knightley

The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century

Phillip Knightley

436 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
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The spy is as old as history but spy services are quite new. Britain founded the first, Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, in dubious circumstances in 1909. Others followed until no country considered itself a nation unless it had a corps ...

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