Behind the Cold War an unseen war was waged for half a century, between the secret services of East and West. By definition, this other war was invisible to the public, although at times aspects of it would burst into public view. In regular contact with Britain's SIS (MI6) and consultant to the Foreign Office's semi-secret, anti-subversion department, IRD, and to the CIA, Brian Crozier not only witnessed the unseen war from the inside, but also played an active role in it. At all times, however, he retained his freedom of action: hence the title, "Free Agent". This account of the unseen war is part autobiography, part informal history. It throws a light on the events of five troubled decades and shows how, in the last analysis, the West did not "win" the Cold War: the Soviet side lost it.

Free agent: The unseen war, 1941-1991

Politics & Social Sciences

Crozier, Brian

Politics & Government

Harpercollins

Offers an inside look at the Cold War and the role of espionage and intelligence gathering

Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991

A theory of conflict

Social Sciences

Hamilton

The masters of power

Eyre & Spottiswoode

Franco

History

Europe

Little. Brown and Company

De Gaulle

EYRE METHUEN

Scribner

For more than 80 years, the Soviet Empire cast an ever-lengthening shadow across the face of the world. Lenin's ruthless legacy consumed Eastern Europe and toppled governments on virtually every continent. Yet at the moment when the Empire appeared to have reached its zenith, it collapsed like a house of cards. "Brian Crozier's definitive history of the Soviet Empire is a chilling account of an ideology that haunted our century." — Henry Kissinger In this seminal work, the eminent British writer and historian Brian Crozier tells the brutal history of the Soviet Empire—its birth, life, and sudden death. The book begins at the beginning, in 1917, when the oversized dreams of Lenin and the happenstance of events conspired to change the course of history. In meticulous detail, Crozier follows the Soviet conquests across Europe and into Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere. He uses recently declassified information from Soviet archives to add texture and depth to familiar parts of the story—the betrayal at Yalta, the terror of Stalin, the tragedy of Hungary, the split with China, the false hope of Prague Spring, the rise of Castro, the invasion of Afghanistan, and the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Revealed along the way is the dark underside of a regime whose march toward supremacy resulted in the loss of tens of millions of lives. The book concludes with reflections on the extraordinary disintegration of Lenin's utopia and the seemingly endless chaos left in its wake. Provocative, comprehensive, and majestic in scope, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire is the definitive account of history's most turbulent days.

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire

Ancient Civilizations

Prima Lifestyles

Russia

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