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ePub Intrepid's Last Case download
Author:
William Stevenson
ISBN13:
978-0394534305
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0394534301
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Publisher:
Villard Books; 1st edition (1983)
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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.

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.

Intrepid's Last Case book. Some years back I read A Man Called Intrepid, again written by William Stevenson about Sir William Stephenson, which detailed some of Stephenson’s actions regarding WWII.

William Henry Stevenson (1 June 1924 – 26 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist. His 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid was about William Stephenson (no relation) and was a best-seller. It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring David Niven. Stevenson followed it in 1983 with another book, Intrepid's Last Case. He published his autobiography in 2012.

ISBN 10: 0345300912 ISBN 13: 9780345300911. Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1984. Offers a look at master spy Sir William Stephenson-code name Intrepid-as he confronts the KGB in a case involving a Russian defector, nuclear intrigue, and scandal, in a study of a spymaster at work.

Intrepid's Last Case chronicles the post-World War II activities of Sir William Stephenson, whose fascinating . 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 wartime aide.

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 . The final investigation by the Man called Intrepid.

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 o. . ISBN13:9781585745210.

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Xxvii, 321 pages ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Originally published: New York : Villard Books, 1983. I ask only once a year: please help the Internet Archive today.

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Offers a look at master spy Sir William Stephenson--code name Intrepid--as he battles the KGB in a case involving a Russian defector, nuclear intrigue, and scandal
  • An excellent history and necessary elaboration for those who have read "A Man Called Intrepid" and "Spymistress". It can be read as just deep history of the Cold War, or the mirror of reality for Le Carre's famous novels. But following Larry Ellison's (Oracle founder) famous "There is no privacy; get over it." pronouncement, the implications for the individual human being vs. the authoritarian state of any country or culture are profound, very real and in fact unavoidable. We now face petabyte databases linked to facial recognition and other tracking softwares; universal individual cell phones that are universally and continually trackable; social media on which people give away great and small details of their personal lives; unremitting hacking of huge databases of both private medical information AND deep private personal financial information (Experion most recently); and a few corporations that control a huge amount of all this (think Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon). The technology of Orwell's big brother was primitive compared to this.
    It's not that Russians are the only or even chief players anymore, but in the FBI/Democratic National Committee/GPS Fusion imbroglio over President Trump: anyone reading Intrepid's Last Case must wonder if Putin's disinformation techniques have won that one! How infiltrated and/or corrupt is the FBI of 2018?
    One must ponder, who will control these massive information systems in the future? Who in Google or in Facebook or Oracle is being courted, flattered, cozied up to, compromised, or bought, by Russian, Chinese, Cuban, or even Iranian agents at this time? Are pro-Western agencies on top of this? And who in the West is pro-West?
    Intrepid's Last Case covers about 70 years of history and wanders from Afghanistan to the US. The new territory of espionage is Cyberspace. Sir William Stevenson, Dick Ellis, Vera Atkins, and Wild Bill Donovan would have been ahead of the game on this. Read about them to understand today and our future.

  • Behind the scenes history that I have lived through. Excellent presentation of espionage during the development of the first atomic bomb. Shows just how correct Winston Churchill's perceptions of Joseph Stalin were in pre WW II, during and post WW II. Also, how naive our administrative leaders were about international espionage.

  • It is one of his several books which explore the extent of and importance of world spying. The come late to the party are always amazed of how far behind we are.

  • And important look back in history, and how it repeats itself. We well may be making same mistakes presently that occurred in a divided nation 65 years ago.

  • I quit reading the book. It’s very boring to me.

  • Better than fiction

  • One of the top five books I have ever read tells of how Stalin was spying on America, Britain and Canada while Russia was an ally during WWII, and continued placing moles and double agents in high government positions for decades after the war. I have come to believe that we have hundreds of moles in our State Department and high level positions throughout our government to this day. This is an important book.

  • Disappointed