Название: A Hundred Years of Spying Автор: Phil Carradice Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1526781417 Год: 2021 Формат: PDF Страниц: 234 Размер: 10,9 МБ Язык: Английский
Early espionage organisations like Walsingham's Elizabethan spy network were private enterprises, tasked with keeping the Tudor Queen and her government safe. Formal use of spies and counter spies only really began in the years after 1909, when the official British secret service was founded. Britain became the first major proponent of secret information gathering and other nations quickly followed.