The Cia: An Imperial History Hugh Wilford Basic Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία World

A Times Book Of The Year 2024A New Yorker Best 2024\ Gripping History That Also Informs Present\ Sunday Times\ Lively And Original\ Spectator\ Spectacular Achievement\ Dominic Sandbrook\ Fast-Paced Absorbing Insightful\ Simon Hall\ Simply Superb\ Kathryn Olmsted Definitive How Cia Became Foremost Defender America\ S Covert Global Empire As World War Ii Ended United States Stood Dominant Power On Stage In 1947 To Support Its Status It Created Analyse Foreign Intelligence But Within Few Years Agency Was Engaged Other Operations: Bolstering Pro-American Governments Overthrowing Nationalist Leaders Surveilling Anti-Imperial Dissenters At Home Cold An Obvious Reason For This Transformation - Not Only One Celebrated British Historian Hugh Wilford Draws Decades Research Show Part Larger Picture: Western While Young Officers Imagined Themselves Imperial Agents Like T E Lawrence Successive Us Presidents Used Powers Hide Overseas Interventions From Postcolonial Foreigners Americans Alike Even Cia\ Post-9 11 Hunt Terrorists Haunted By Ghosts Empires Past Comprehensive Original Is Story Birth Order Shadows Offers Most Complete Account Yet America Adopted Unaccountable Secrecy Abroad Σελίδες: 384 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0910 Διαστάσεις: 15 8X15 8Cm