The Secret World
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The Secret World
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Seslendiren:
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Laurence Kennedy
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Christopher Andrew
The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada.
Those who do not understand past mistakes are likely to repeat them. Intelligence is a prime example. At the outbreak of World War I, the grasp of intelligence shown by US President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was not in the same class as that of George Washington during the Revolutionary War and leading 18th-century British statesmen.
In this book, distinguished historian Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia - and shows its relevance today.
©2018 Christopher Andrew (P)2018 Audible, LtdThe James Mason-esque reader is a fun touch, he sounds just like one of the cynical, clever spies whose devious exploits he relates!
Enthralling
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Interesting but dry at times
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The narrator is competent, doing well with some very tricky international and multilingual names and phases, but is inconsistent in the basics. He will pause for breath in the middle of a sentence then carry on as if it's a new one. He does accents occasionally, American and English mostly, but then forgets other times, so that, for example, not all American quotes are done in an American accent.
However, the worst thing about this recording is the sound. Due to the fact that the narrator is inconsistent there have, obviously, been a lot of retakes. These sound like they were recorded on a different day, in a different building, with different equipment and the microphone inserted up the narrator's nostril. SO inconsistent is the sound that I often had to adjust the volume on my headphones to save blasting my eardrums. Also, they haven't even edited in the retakes competently, regularly getting repeated sentences or part sentences, sometimes with the misspronounciation included.
This amateurish production almost ruined what was otherwise a fascinating study and is not what I would expect from an Audible recording.
Interesting book, terrible recording!
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Poor editing
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Towards the end, I suddenly wondered why there was no mention of the Lockerbie bombing (Pan Am Flight 103) from 1988 and it altered occurred to me that, at the time of writing, the subject matter may well still have been under the UK's 30-year rule. What led me to this supposition was that later events were covered, but not UK ones.
There are many errors of editing in this work - most in the form of repeated sentences - an easy mistake to make during editing. I'd encourage potential listeners to grin and bear it. Think of the time and cost of editing the average music CD which, at the most, lasts 80 minutes. This book around 27 times that length.
I've since bought Christopher Andrew's Defence of the Realm - the official history of MI5 and am looking forward to reading that.
Thorough
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