ISBN10: 0199657025, ISBN13: 9780199657025, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Like New condition. Great condition, but not exactly fully crisp. The book may have been opened and read, but there are no defects to the book, jacket or pages.
[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2014]

ISBN10: 0199657025, ISBN13: 9780199657025, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Like New
[liverpool, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2014]

ISBN10: 0199657025, ISBN13: 9780199657025, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. During the Second World War British intelligence provided politicians and soldiers with invaluable knowledge. Britain was determined to maintain this advantage following victory, but the wartime machinery was uneconomical, unwieldy, and unsuitable for peace. Drawing on oral testimony, international archives, and private papers, Defence Intelligence and the Cold War provides the first history of the hitherto little-known organisation designed to preserve andadvance British capability in military and military-related intelligence for the Cold War: the Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB).Headed by General Eisenhower's wartime intelligence man,Major General Kenneth Strong, the JIB was central to the mission to spy on and understand the Soviet Union, and the broader Communist world. It did so from its creation in 1946 to its end in 1964, when it formed a central component of the new Defence Intelligence Staff. This volume reveals hitherto hidden aspects of Britain's mission to map the Soviet Union for nuclear war, the struggle to understand and contain the economies of the USSR, China, and North Korea in peace and during the KoreanWar, and the urgent challenge to understand the nature and scale of the Soviet bomber and missile threat in the 1950s and 1960s. The JIB's dedicated work in these fields won it the support of somepoliticians and military men, ...
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ISBN10: 0199657025, ISBN13: 9780199657025, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2014]

ISBN10: 0199657025, ISBN13: 9780199657025, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr] Hardcover 1st edition. 256 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2014]