#Spycraft narrator series#
‘This is his war and he writes with an easy assurance, scatter-gunning opinions … Hastings is on form. Intelligence agent River Cartwright, after being banished from high-profile work for incompetence, suspects a prominant British journalist with ties to an extremist party of being behind the kidnapping of a Muslim teenager. In this episode of The Self Defense Channel, Greg, Doc and special guest Ken Volkman discuss SPYCRAFT a NETFLIX mini series created by our personal friend H. Hastings understands, better than any previous historian, that this is as much a story about human nature as it is about the mechanics of code-breaking or spycraft … he has the novelist’s eye for the telling detail … this book works because Hastings is simply a very fine writer who is not afraid of making judgements … Hastings’s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Lawrence Rees, Sunday Times Jib gives kudos to Jeffy for his spycraft, but sics Johnny on Jeffy. Told through a series of snapshots of key moments, the book looks closely at Soviet espionage operations which dwarfed those of every other belligerent in scale, as well as the code-breaking operation at Bletchley Park – the greatest intelligence achievement of the conflict – with many more surprising and unfamiliar tales of treachery, deception, betrayal and incompetence by spies of Axis, Allied or indeterminate loyalty. The episode opens with the narrator catching the audience up with the history of. Returning to the Second World War for the first time since his best-selling ‘All Hell Let Loose’, Hastings weaves into a ‘big picture’ framework, the human stories of spies and intelligence officers who served their respective masters. : Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda. Written on a global scale, the book brings together accounts from British, American, German, Russian and Japanese sources to tell the story of a secret war waged unceasingly by men and women often far from the battlefields but whose actions profoundly influenced the outcome. With Charlize Theron as an unreliable narrator and James McAvoy as good-guy douchebag-gone-native this may be in my top-ten favorite cold-war spy films. because the GM still has narrator powers in that structure. In ‘The Secret War’, Max Hastings examines the espionage and intelligence machines of all sides in World War II, and the impact of spies, code-breakers and partisan operations on events. Spycraft makes game attempts to get around all that awkwardness and is still committed to. ‘A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history … royally entertaining and readable’ Mail on Sunday ‘Authoritative, exciting and notably well written’ Daily Telegraph
‘As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings’s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Sunday Times
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