Buy this book on-line WHITEHEAD, JULIAN: : CAVALIERS & ROUNDHEADS - Intelligence in the Civil War and CommonwealthUK.BARNSLEY,SOUTH YORKSHIRE.PEN & SWORD MILITARY/PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD.,2009. ISBN 1844159574.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE-. No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white+grey lettering,thumnail detail from front illustration repeated to spine/ backstrip with similar lettering as front to same; rear panel with synopsis/bullet points; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present - no scoring nor indents either.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners – virtually pristine,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate/ clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xpp+12-243pp [paginated] includes a Preface,13 chapters+ Epilogue,8pp contemporary b/w portraits,facsimile documents,ephemera and illustration reproductions,in 1 block, between pp116/7,appendices (3),Notes and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,contents list/table,and an illustrations list/table with acknowledgements to its reverse.
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The crucial part played by intelligence and espionage techniques - by spying – in Britain during the Civil Wars and the Commonwealth has rarely been studied,yet it is a key to understanding the dangerous politics and the open warfare of those troubled times.In this fascinating and original account,Julian Whitehead traces the rapid development of intelligence techniques during this,one of the most confused and uncertain phases of British history.His vivid narrative demonstrates how leaders on all sides set up increasingly effective systems for gathering and interpreting intelligence, and it shows the decisive impact intelligence had on events.
The intrigue,the secret operations,the many plots and counter-plots, and the colorful personalities involved,make compelling reading.
His book covers the momentous events from the beginning of the Civil Wars through to the Restoration,and it describes the massive expansion of intelligence during that period.The need for military intelligence by both sides in the Civil Wars led to the use of scouts and reconnaisance,then informants and the intercept of mail.Once the wars were over the Republic sought to defend itself from Royalist uprisings and subversive groups, using informers and surveillance.Thomas Scot,the republic's intelligence chief, responded to the threat that foreign countries might support the Stuarts by establishing agents overseas.Then under Cromwell,John Thurloe took the role of head of intelligence and made full use of agents to counter threats at home and advance foreign policy abroad.
As he reconstructs the intelligence operations of 350 years ago,Julian Whitehead offers a graphic insight into this revolutionary period in British history.His account of a key syage in the development of the British secret service will be fascinating reading for all students of espionage and covert operations.
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