The Second Oldest Profession, Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century
by Knightley, Phillip
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine copy/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393023869
- ISBN 13
- 9780393023862
- Seller
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Francestown, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton, 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xii, 430. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Source notes. Checklist. Index. This is an entertaining story. Modern spying began with the English novelist, William Le Queux, and his obsessions about an insidious German spy network in the years just before the First World War. The author remarks, "It is clear that he [Le Queux] rapidly ceases to distinguish fact from fantasy." Have things changed much in a hundred years?
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- Bookseller
- The Typographeum Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00081
- Title
- The Second Oldest Profession, Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century
- Author
- Knightley, Phillip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393023869
- ISBN 13
- 9780393023862
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- Espionage;
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