Efter 2. Verdenskrig begyndte forfatteren, Robert Lamphere, at dechiffrere opsnappede hemmelige sovjetiske signaler, hvilket førte ham på sporet af et KGB agent-net i USA og til afsløring af sovjetspioner som Judith Coplon, Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold og Ethel og Julius Rosenberg.
"The goal was to turn the Russian revolution into a world revolution, and the strategy was a masterful campaign led by a propaganda genius to align Western intellectuals with Stalin's Soviet Union. The man assigned to this task by the Politburo was Willi Munzenberg, a German com…
Explores intelligence and espionage during the Revolutionary War, and the key role this information played in the colonies gaining their independence.
Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural anxieties created by imperialism. She suggests that while colonial w…
"Drawing on the work of leading theorists of imperialism, Yumna Siddiqi reveals how British writers express the anxious workings of a will to maintain imperial power in their writing. She also illuminates the ways South Asian writers portray the paradoxes of postcolonial moderni…