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  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    To Armageddon & Beyond

    by Len Scott ...
    It is sixty years since the events of October 1962 brought the world close to nuclear catastrophe. The Cuban missile crisis has long been recognized as the moment of greatest danger in the life (and near death) of humanity. In those sixty years, our knowledge and understanding of events have undergone significant change. There are some reasons to be encouraged, inasmuch as we have learned how both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning from the Secret Past

    Cases in British Intelligence History

    by Robert Dover, Michael S. Goodman, David Omand, Michael Herman, Peter Gill, Mark Phythian, Matthew Jones, Richard J. Aldrich, Eunan O'Halpin0, Len Scott1, Gill Bennett, OBE2 ...
    Identifying “lessons learned” is not new—the military has been doing it for decades. However, members of the worldwide intelligence community have been slow to extract wider lessons gathered from the past and apply them to contemporary challenges. Learning from the Secret Past is a collection of ten carefully selected cases from post-World War II British intelligence history. Some of the cases ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Planning Armageddon

    Britain, the United States and the Command of Western Nuclear Forces, 1945-1964

    by Len Scott, Dr Stephen Robert Twigge, Stephen Twigge ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    Planning Armageddon provides the first detailed account of Britain's Command, Control, Intelligence and Communications infrastructure. A central theme of the book is the British-American atomic relationship and its implications for NATO strategy. Based on the recollections of officials and military officers in both Britain and the United States and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    A Critical Reappraisal

    Edited by Len Scott, R. Gerald Hughes ...
    Series series Cold War History
    This volume brings together a collection of leading international experts to revisit and review our understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis, via a critical reappraisal of some of the key texts.In October 1962, humankind came close to the end of its history. The risk of catastrophe is now recognised by many to have been greater than realised by protagonists at the time or scholars subsequently. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Intelligence, Crises and Security

    Prospects and Retrospects

    Edited by Len Scott, R. Gerald Hughes ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This collection of essays by leading experts seeks to explore what lessons for the exploitation and management of secret intelligence might be drawn from a variety of case studies ranging from the 1920s to the ‘War on Terror’.Long regarded as the ‘missing dimension’ of international history and politics, public and academic interest in the role of secret intelligence has continued to grow in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • An International History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    A 50-year retrospective

    Edited by David Gioe, Len Scott, Christopher Andrew ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from a global perspective.Despite the discoveries of recent research, there is still much more to be revealed about the handling of nuclear weapons before and during the Cuban Missile Crisis (CMC). Featuring contributions from a number of eminent international scholars of nuclear history, intelligence, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Intelligence and International Security

    New Perspectives and Agendas

    Edited by Len Scott, R. Gerald Hughes, Martin Alexander ...
    The events of 9/11 and subsequent acts of jihadist terrorism, together with the failures of intelligence agencies over Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, have arguably heralded a new age of intelligence. For some this takes the form of a crisis of legitimacy. For others the threat of cataclysmic terrorism involving chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attack gives added poignancy to the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Exploring Intelligence Archives

    Enquiries into the Secret State

    Edited by R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Jackson, Len Scott ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This edited volume brings together many of the world’s leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence.The book presents a series of documents, nearly all of which are published here for the first time, accompanied by both overview and commentary sections. The central ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    by William Stevenson ...
    Intrepid's Last Case chronicles the post-World War II activities of Sir William Stephenson, whose fascinating role in helping to defeat the Nazis was the subject of the worldwide bestseller A Man Called Intrepid. Sir William Stephenson (Intrepid) still stood at the center of events when he and author William Stevenson discussed in the 1980s an investigation into sudden allegations that Intrepid's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Doomsday Machine

    Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

    by Daniel Ellsberg ...
    Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListForeign Affairs Best Books of the YearIn These Times “Best Books of the Year"Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books ListLitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week”</str... ... Read more

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  • Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Robert F. Kennedy ...
    "A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history."—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Armageddon Letters

    Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by James G. Blight, janet M. Lang ...
    In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human civilization to the brink of destruction. On the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear era, two of the leading experts on the crisis recreate the drama of those tumultuous days as experienced by the leaders of the three countries directly involved: U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ... Read more

    $32.99 USD