{"product_id":"the-guinness-book-of-espionage","title":"The Guinness Book Of Espionage","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePacked with case histories and profiles of history's most infamous secret agents, plus a comprehensive glossary, \u003ci\u003eThe Guinness Book of Espionage\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to armchair spies everywhere.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Guinness Book of Espionage\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the real world of spies and spying-military, political, and commercial-and charts the story of subterfuge throughout history. It contains fascinating details on: \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe People:\u003c\/b\u003e famous spies such as Christopher Marlowe, Mata Hari, John Walker, and Kim Philby \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTheir Methods:\u003c\/b\u003e recruiting and running an agent, and the development of codes and ciphers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Equipment and Technology:\u003c\/b\u003e from the early use of radios for communication through to today's hi-tech electronic surveillance and photographic techniques, as employed by advanced spy planes and satellites \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Famous Incidents: \u003c\/b\u003esuch as the Zimmermann Telegram, the Venlo incident--one of the greatest mistakes in British intelligence history, which wiped out virtually all British agents on the Continent at the start of the last war; the shooting down of Francis Gary Pawers's U-2 spyplane in 1960, and the destruction of the Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 over Kamtchatka with the loss of 269 innocent lives in the '80s In England Defeat Shakes the Foundations of Monarchy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eServices and Operations:\u003c\/b\u003e including the KGB, CIA, MI5, Mossad and Britain's wartime Special Operations Executive \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSecrets in the Office:\u003c\/b\u003e telephone tapping and the ins and outs of computer hacking\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42278520225970,"sku":"9780306805844","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0536\/7418\/0786\/files\/missing-cover_90d25ed1-d56c-49ce-a44a-55803a55b9fd.jpg?v=1741617180","url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/the-guinness-book-of-espionage","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}