
Fortunately, in this work, astounding in both its narrative excellence and depth of research, Mr.

“Twenty-first century intelligence suffers from long term historical amnesia.” The first line of Christopher Andrew’s majestic work on the history of intelligence is certainly true not only of the intelligence profession, but of far too many political, diplomatic, and military leaders as well.

“not a lot of books that can be said to change the historiography of events, but this stands as one of them.
