Christopher Andrew has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 17 ratings. The most-rated is The Secret World.
The Secret World
Summary
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, Ltd
The Sword and the Shield
Summary
In 1992 Vasili Mitrokhin defected to England and brought along an extensive archive of military intelligence from the Soviet Union. A career KGB officer who served as chief archivist for its foreign operations, Vasili Mitrokhin became disillusioned with the Soviet system and its constant repression of dissidents at home and abroad. Determined to preserve the truth, he secretly compiled a detailed record of the agency's worldwide espionage network. The Sword and the Shield offers an unprecedented look into the KGB's top-secret activities. It is described by the FBI as "the most complete and extensive intelligence ever achieved from any source." Supplementing this trove of KGB secrets with extensive research in other archives, published and unpublished, Christopher Andrew has written an extraordinary book which forces you to acknowledge that there was indeed an enemy - and that he was very much in our midst.Revelations from The Sword and the Shield: The massive role that the KGB played in the Cold War and the state-sanctioned paranoia behind it The KGB's attempts to discredit J. Edgar Hoover, and their eavesdropping activities against Henry Kissinger Details of secret radio and arms caches buried throughout Western Europe and the United States The real identities of the KGB's most senior spies in Britain and the United States The internal repression of dissidents within the Soviet Union, including the KGB's own most capable and best educated officers
©1999 Christopher Andrew (P)16 9; 2000 HighBridge Company