
Spies and Secret Service / The story of espionage, its main systems and chief exponents
by Hamil Grant
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About This Book
The Ethos of the Spy 17 The Pragmatical Age—Spies always with us—Prehistoric Ages—Antiquity—Jurists and Spying—Morin's Views—Napoleon and Spies—Modern Spy's Characteristics—The Aristocrat as Spy—Teutons inferior to Latins—Women as Spies—The Salic Law—Mentality of Efficient Spy—Degeneracy of Spy—Good Education and Presence essential—Audacious rather than Courageous—Napoleon's Leniency towards Spies
Chapters (280)
- SPIES AND SECRET SERVICE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- I THE ETHOS OF THE SPY
- II THE SPY THROUGH THE AGES
- III LE CARON
- IV SCHULMEISTER
- V NATHAN HALE
- VI MACK AND THE MOLLY MAGUIRES
- VII MAJOR ANDRÉ
- VIII BRITISH SECRET SERVICE
- IX FRENCH SECRET SERVICE
- X GERMAN SECRET SERVICE
- XI GERMAN SECRET SERVICE—continued
- XII GERMAN SECRET SERVICE—continued
- XIII GERMAN SECRET SERVICE—continued
- XIV GERMAN SECRET SERVICE—continued
- XV GERMAN SECRET SERVICE—concluded
- XVI DIPLOMATIC, SOCIAL, CHURCH SPIES
- XVII AMERICAN SECRET SERVICE
- XVIII NAPOLEON, HIS MISTRESS AND—A SPY
- XIX CONCLUSION—BIBLIOGRAPHY
- FOOTNOTES
- INDEX
- TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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