Brixmis The Untold Exploits of Britains Most Daring Cold War Spy Mission The Untold Exploits of Britain’s Most Daring Cold War Spy Mission

Name: Brixmis The Untold Exploits of Britains Most Daring Cold War Spy Mission
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: Tony Geraghty

Auteur: Tony Geraghty

Taal: Engels

5,0 5

5,0/5 (1 review)

Afbeeldingen

Artikel vergelijken

Vergelijk met andere artikelen

Bekijk nu

Uitgever: HarperCollins

Auteur: Tony Geraghty

Engels
Paperback
9780006386735
20 oktober 1997
368 pagina's

Alle productspecificaties

Samenvatting

This text presents the secrets of how British intelligence officers working undercover as liaison officers in East Germany stole advanced Soviet equipment and penetrated top-secret training areas.

For forty tense years of Cold War in Europe a team of British intelligence agents – from the three armed services, the SAS and the Foreign Office – working under diplomatic cover as ‘liaison’ officers, ranged like pirates through East Germany, in uniform and unarmed. Their target: the massive military strength assembled on German soil by the Soviets for a potential invasion of the West. These few men gathered a mass of military intelligence information; their efforts met with a violent Soviet response.

Based on privileged access to official files and photographs, Tony Geraghty, best-selling author of 'Who Dares Wins' and himself a veteran paratrooper, is the only man able to get inside ‘Brixmis’ – the British Military Exchange Mission. More astonishing than and every bit as readable as the best spy fiction, the story he has uncovered is nothing less than the secret history of Britain’s victory in the Cold War.

“Deighton, Le Carre, Forsyth and co. eat your hearts out. There’s nothing like a true spy story to knock the fiction off the bookshelf and former para Tony Geraghty has delivered the killer punch. Spy fiction fans who think they know the whole Cold War story should prepare to be amazed.”
SOLDIER MAGAZINE

“Geraghty is one of the few military writers who could have delivered this excellent book … filled with anecdotes, quotes from secret documents and official briefings that bring it alive and make it an exceptionally readable official history of one of the unsung heroes of the Cold War”
JAMES ADAMS, 'Sunday Times'

“Packed with dramatic accounts of spy like things… fascinating revelations celebrate old fashioned British pluck, amateurism, eccentricity and modesty. It’s pages are rife with madcap and brilliant ideas for outwitting the ‘opposition’”
THOMAS BLAIKIE, 'Spectator'

This text presents the secrets of how British intelligence officers working undercover as liaison officers in East Germany stole advanced Soviet equipment and penetrated top-secret training areas. For 40 years the men from all three armed services, the SAS and the Foreign Office conducted an intelligence war against the massive Soviet military strength.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 20 oktober 1997
Aantal pagina's: 368
Illustraties: Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur: Tony Geraghty
Hoofduitgeverij: HarperCollins

Overige kenmerken

Editie: New edition
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 24 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 126 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 27 mm
Verpakking lengte: 202 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 572 g

EAN

EAN: 9780006386735

Je vindt dit artikel in

Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Biografieën & Waargebeurd

Geschiedenis

Politiek

Oorlogen

Internationale betrekkingen

Spionage & Geheime diensten

Boeken
Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Land: Duitsland

Reviews

1 review

Hoe controleren en plaatsen wij reviews? Hoe controleren en plaatsen wij reviews?

Negatief, positief, neutraal: we zetten een review altijd online. We controleren wel eerst of ’ie voldoet aan onze reviewvoorwaarden en niet nep is. We controleren ook of ’ie is geschreven door iemand die het artikel heeft gekocht via bol.com en zetten dit er dan bij. De controles gebeuren automatisch, al kijken er soms mensen mee. Bol.com betaalt niet voor reviews. Als een reviewer door een andere partij is vergoed, staat dit in de review zelf.

Hoe controleren en plaatsen wij reviews? Hoe controleren en plaatsen wij reviews?

Sorteer op:

Very interesting insight in the world of cold-war espionage
- KoenMinnee
- 30-39 jaar
- 28 juni 2013
- Heeft dit artikel gekocht
Very interesting story about the cat&mouse game which is played by the mission vs the Soviets and Stasi. It gives a very good insight in the operations and motives of the different world powers in that time and how it is balanced by means of military espionage under the cover of liason missions.

Vond je dit een nuttige review?

0

0