Australia

History

Phillip, Knightley

Australia & Oceania

Vintage

This book--part history, part travelogue, part memoir--tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony with only two sorts of citizens, convicts and gaolers, turned itself into a proud, prosperous and confident country, the greatest sporting nation on earth, where the citizens of its high-leisure cities enjoy a lifestyle that is the envy of the world.

JONATHAN CAPE.

Until this book was published in 1988, Philby was an enigma. Then a few weeks before his death he gave a number of exclusive interviews to author Philip Knightley. Fully updated throughout with new material.

Philby : KGB Masterspy

Andre Deutsch

A faascinating story of heroism and collusion, censorship and suppression, myth-making and propaganda. Now brought up to date with new material on war in Afghanistan. The author is Australian.

The First Casualty : The War Correspondent As Hero, Propagandist, and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to the Gulf War II

Business & Money

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

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 of spies. The biggest and most expensive is America's Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, formed as recently as 1947. The CIA's principle enemy was the Soviet Union's KGB, and the clash of these two giants has been the thrilling stuff of history, novels, films and plays. In assessing the real role of the spy, Phillip Knightley brilliantly takes all the real characters of the spies themselves - Mata Hari, Sidney Reilly, Richard Sorge, Kim Philby, George Blake, James Jesus Angleton, Ruth Kuczinsky, the Rosenbergs - and answers the crucial question. Did they make any difference to the course of history? Or was spying the biggest confidence trick of our time?

The Second Oldest Profession: The Spy as Bureaucrat, Patriot, Fantasist and Whore

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

From the Crimean War and American Civil War through two World Wars, from Vietnam and the Gulf War to the Balkans and beyond, photographers have been drawn to the battlefront. The best war photography bares the essence of war by distilling the chaos of combat into indelible visual icons. The camera was part of the technological revolution that started to transform warfare in the middle of the 19th century. As weapons have become more deadly, cameras have kept pace, getting smaller, quicker, longer ranged. This volume includes 200 of the most powerful war photographs: unforgettable images like Alexander Gardner's of the Civil War dead after Antietam in 1862, still the bloodiest day in American history; Robert Capa's, Margaret Bourke White's and Yevgeni Khaldei's of the Second World War; or Don McCullin's and Larry Burrows' of Vietnam. Accompanying the images are compelling eyewitness accounts of the experience of war from war correspondents and from combatants, recorded in diaries, memoirs and letters.

The Eye of War

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The First Casualty - From the Crimea to Vietnam: War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Mythmaker

Social Sciences

Pan Books

The first full history of spies, spying, and the intelligence bureaucracy, from the author of The Philby Conspiracy.
In 1909, the business of spying was hoisted from the domain of a few European descendents to the highest reaches of British government with the formation of Britain's SIS. Acting in response to a totally fraudulent fear--the German spy scare that preceded World War I--the British soon had a lot of company as Germany, Russia, France, and other powers large and small joined the mad rush toward information and espionage. Not far behind came the biggest of them all, first with the OSS and then with the CIA, fueled by paranoia and by more money than any new bureaucracy had ever seen. "Bigger than State by '48," was the CIA's slogan on its founding in 1947. And it was.
Now intelligence is a very big business with a very rich history, told here with a depth and verve never before brought to the subject, by a master historian. All of the legends and their immensely readable stories and here--Sorge, Donovan, Philby, Mata Hari, Golitsyn, Angleton, Penkovsky--and behind them a large question: did any act of these spies and their masters make any difference at all in the course of history?

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

Military

W.W.Norton&Company

"The fullest, most detailed portrait of T.E. Lawrence "Of Arabia" yet to appear in print." [blurb on back wrapper]

Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia

Colin Simpson

BANTAM BOOKS

Philby, the Spy Who Betrayed A Generation. Written by Bruce Page, David Leitch, and Phillip Knightley. Introduction by John Le Carre'

Philby, the Spy Who Betrayed a Generation

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Bruce Page

David Leitch

Thrillers & Suspense

Sphere Books

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