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A review by adamren
Australia's First Spies: The Remarkable Story of Australia's Intelligence Operations, 1901-45 by John Fahey
2.0
Dry. So dry. I reckon if a packet of desiccant without any projection or hypocrisy would groan 'Wow, you're so fucking dry!' if it met this book.
A+ for effort though and those boring niche researchers that want to know the minutiae about the Japs kicking our ass in PNG and Fiji etc will probably love this.
I'm so thirsty I could do a Bear Gryls and squeeze some dung of the great grey elephant...or maybe not.
If only I could get those dozen or so wasted hours back. So repetitive and boring, and constantly looking up what the acronyms were (thankfully all of them were there in the back except 2 or 3).
If you already knew Australian intelligence agencies were shit then you don't need to read this. And the author being a goody two shoes and not wanting to write anything that might breach the Official Secrets Act is a laugh, has he not heard of WikiLeaks? Does he think we're mugs that don't know China and Russia hack our secrets and have already stolen all our good stuff? What a joke!
Can't believe my local library bought this, rather than some more mainstream and less dry stuff.
I've said this book is extremely boring and extremely dry right? Well it bears repeating, it's so important. I'm warning you all to not read this academic nancy pantsy crap. The only reason I finished it was because it was so overdue, it was already renewed twice and then they sent me a txt to say it's way overdue LOL. The upside of that is that I've saved someone from seeing it and reading it whilst I procrastinated on it.
A+ for effort though and those boring niche researchers that want to know the minutiae about the Japs kicking our ass in PNG and Fiji etc will probably love this.
I'm so thirsty I could do a Bear Gryls and squeeze some dung of the great grey elephant...or maybe not.
If only I could get those dozen or so wasted hours back. So repetitive and boring, and constantly looking up what the acronyms were (thankfully all of them were there in the back except 2 or 3).
If you already knew Australian intelligence agencies were shit then you don't need to read this. And the author being a goody two shoes and not wanting to write anything that might breach the Official Secrets Act is a laugh, has he not heard of WikiLeaks? Does he think we're mugs that don't know China and Russia hack our secrets and have already stolen all our good stuff? What a joke!
Can't believe my local library bought this, rather than some more mainstream and less dry stuff.
I've said this book is extremely boring and extremely dry right? Well it bears repeating, it's so important. I'm warning you all to not read this academic nancy pantsy crap. The only reason I finished it was because it was so overdue, it was already renewed twice and then they sent me a txt to say it's way overdue LOL. The upside of that is that I've saved someone from seeing it and reading it whilst I procrastinated on it.