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FALL/WINTER 2018 Yale Manguel Jackson Fagan Kastan Packing My Library Breakpoint Little History On Color 978-0-300-21933-3 978-0-300-17939-2 of Archeology 978-0-300-17187-7 $23.00 $26.00 978-0-300-22464-1 $28.00 $25.00 Moore Walker Faderman Jacoby Fabulous The Burning House Harvey Milk Why Baseball 978-0-300-20470-4 978-0-300-22398-9 978-0-300-22261-6 Matters $26.00 $30.00 $25.00 978-0-300-22427-6 $26.00 Boyer Dunn Brumwell Dal Pozzo Minds Make A Blueprint Turncoat Pasta for Societies for War 978-0-300-21099-6 Nightingales 978-0-300-22345-3 978-0-300-20353-0 $30.00 978-0-300-23288-2 $30.00 $25.00 $22.50 RECENT GENERAL INTEREST HIGHLIGHTS 1 General Interest COVER: From Desirable Body, page 29. General Interest 1 The Secret World Why is it important for policymakers to understand the history of intelligence? Because of what happens when they don’t! WWI was the first codebreaking war. But both Woodrow Wilson, the best educated president in U.S. history, and British The Secret World prime minister Herbert Asquith understood SIGINT A History of Intelligence (signal intelligence, or codebreaking) far less well than their eighteenth-century predecessors, George Christopher Andrew Washington and some leading British statesmen of the era. Had they learned from past experience, they would have made far fewer mistakes. Asquith only bothered to The first-ever detailed, comprehensive history Author photograph © Justine Stoddart. look at one intercepted telegram. It never occurred to of intelligence, from Moses and Sun Tzu to the A conversation Wilson that the British were breaking his codes. present day with Christopher By contrast, in WWII Churchill was the world leader in Andrew intelligence because he learned from past experience The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s and discovered that “the further backward you look, the intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence further forward you can see.” operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreak- ers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II One would think that, being secret, much of the history intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their of intelligence has been lost. How were you able to predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic recover so much of it? wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. By learning where to look and taking advantage of Those who do not understand past mistakes are likely to extraordinary opportunities. Early in my career, for repeat them. Intelligence is a prime example. At the out- example, I came across a document in a French break of World War I, the grasp of intelligence shown archives catalogue entitled Service photographique. I by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and British prime knew this was Third Republic code for “codebreaking minister Herbert Asquith was not in the same class as service;” if the authorities had realized that, they would that of George Washington during the Revolutionary never have released it! Intelligence goes back centuries War and leading eighteenth-century British statesmen. in Cambridge, where I wrote this book. Those I’ve talked to there have ranged from veterans of Bletchley In this book, distinguished historian Christopher “In this extraordinarily ambitious Park to the youngest-ever major Russian spy, who lived Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of and monumental work, Christopher Andrew brings an enormous amount of in the next street. I ve been lucky also to work closely the past three millennia—and shows its relevance today. ’ detail together in one place so patterns with some immensely talented former intelligence can begin to emerge and readers can officers—notably, Oleg Gordievsky, the leading Western CHRISTOPHER ANDREW is emeritus professor of modern and appreciate connections and dissimilarities. agent in the KGB during the later Cold War, and contemporary history at the University of Cambridge. His many No other book has come close to what Vasili Mitrokhin, who smuggled out of KGB archives books include The Sword and the Shield; The World Was Going Our Andrew has done here.”—Harvey Klehr, what the FBI called “the most complete and extensive Way; and Defend the Realm, an authorized history of MI5. Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics intelligence ever received from any source.” And then and History Emeritus, Emory University I became MI5’s first (and so far only) official historian with, for seven years, an office in its HQ. September History/Espionage Hardcover 978-0-300-23844-0 $40.00 Also available as an eBook. 1 1 896 pp. 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 For sale in the United States only 2 General Interest Why is it important for policymakers to understand the history of intelligence? Because of what happens when they don’t! WWI was the first codebreaking war. But both Woodrow Wilson, the best educated president in U.S. history, and British The Secret World prime minister Herbert Asquith understood SIGINT A History of Intelligence (signal intelligence, or codebreaking) far less well than their eighteenth-century predecessors, George Christopher Andrew Washington and some leading British statesmen of the era. Had they learned from past experience, they would have made far fewer mistakes. Asquith only bothered to The first-ever detailed, comprehensive history Author photograph © Justine Stoddart. look at one intercepted telegram. It never occurred to of intelligence, from Moses and Sun Tzu to the A conversation Wilson that the British were breaking his codes. present day with Christopher By contrast, in WWII Churchill was the world leader in Andrew intelligence because he learned from past experience The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s and discovered that “the further backward you look, the intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence further forward you can see.” operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreak- ers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II One would think that, being secret, much of the history intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their of intelligence has been lost. How were you able to predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic recover so much of it? wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. By learning where to look and taking advantage of Those who do not understand past mistakes are likely to extraordinary opportunities. Early in my career, for repeat them. Intelligence is a prime example. At the out- example, I came across a document in a French break of World War I, the grasp of intelligence shown archives catalogue entitled Service photographique. I by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and British prime knew this was Third Republic code for “codebreaking minister Herbert Asquith was not in the same class as service;” if the authorities had realized that, they would that of George Washington during the Revolutionary never have released it! Intelligence goes back centuries War and leading eighteenth-century British statesmen. in Cambridge, where I wrote this book. Those I’ve talked to there have ranged from veterans of Bletchley In this book, distinguished historian Christopher “In this extraordinarily ambitious Park to the youngest-ever major Russian spy, who lived Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of and monumental work, Christopher Andrew brings an enormous amount of in the next street. I ve been lucky also to work closely the past three millennia—and shows its relevance today. ’ detail together in one place so patterns with some immensely talented former intelligence can begin to emerge and readers can officers—notably, Oleg Gordievsky, the leading Western CHRISTOPHER ANDREW is emeritus professor of modern and appreciate connections and dissimilarities. agent in the KGB during the later Cold War, and contemporary history at the University of Cambridge. His many No other book has come close to what Vasili Mitrokhin, who smuggled out of KGB archives books include The Sword and the Shield; The World Was Going Our Andrew has done here.”—Harvey Klehr, what the FBI called “the most complete and extensive Way; and Defend the Realm, an authorized history of MI5. Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics intelligence ever received from any source.” And then and History Emeritus, Emory University I became MI5’s first (and so far only) official historian with, for seven years, an office in its HQ. September History/Espionage Hardcover 978-0-300-23844-0 $40.00 Also available as an eBook. 1 1 896 pp. 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 For sale in the United States only General Interest 3 Inadvertent Praise for MY STRUGGLE by Karl Ove Knausgaard: “What’s notable is Karl Ove’s ability, rare these days, to be fully present in and mindful of his own existence. Every detail is put down without apparent vanity or decoration, as if the writing Inadvertent and the living are happening simultaneously. There shouldn’t be anything remarkable about any of it except for the fact that it Karl Ove Knausgaard immerses you totally. You live his life with him.”—Zadie Smith, New York Review of Books The second book in the Why I Write series Photo by André Løyning and Forlaget Oktober. provides generous insight into the creative “Knausgaard’s command of the traditional novelistic procedure is the reason these books are the opposite of dull, though on process of the award-winning Norwegian the face of it they should be. Knausgaard is always spinning novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard a tale, always drawing the reader along with some romantic entanglement, sexual disaster, or emotional crisis.

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