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Shadow Wars eBook Series

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  • Shadow Wars: The Forging of American Intelligence 1776 - 1961

    Shadow Wars, #1

    by ga thompson ...
    Series Book 1 - Shadow Wars
    For 165 years, America repeatedly built intelligence capabilities in wartime—then systematically destroyed them in peace.George Washington's Culper Ring provided intelligence that helped win the Revolutionary War. After victory, the network dissolved. The files disappeared. The lessons vanished.The pattern repeated through nine wars. After each conflict, intelligence officers were dismissed, ... Read more

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  • Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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  • The Generals

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  • The Declassification Engine

    What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets

    by Matthew Connelly ...
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  • The Hidden History of America at War

    Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    Series series Don't Know Much About
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  • The Brink

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  • Silent Warfare

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    A thoroughly updated revision of the first comprehensive overview of intelligence designed for both the student and the general reader, Silent Warfare is an insiders guide to a shadowy, often misunderstood world. Leading intelligence scholars Abram N. Shulsky and Gary J. Schmitt clearly explain such topics as the principles of collection, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action, and their ... Read more

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  • Pearl Harbor: Failure of Intelligence?

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