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ebony14
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Jan-16-17, 02:23 PM (EDT) |
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"Espionage"
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So, I find myself interested in learning more about the history of the OSS, the SOE, and assorted other parts of the Great Game in the 20th Century. Can anyone recommend a good book to start with? Ebony the Black Dragon "Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard." |
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Gryphon
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Jan-16-17, 03:56 PM (EDT) |
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1. "RE: Espionage"
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>So, I find myself interested in learning more about the history of the >OSS, the SOE, and assorted other parts of the Great Game in the 20th >Century. Can anyone recommend a good book to start with? For SOE, start with Leo Marks's Between Silk and Cyanide. Marks was a cryptanalyst during the war and provides an excellent, moving, and often hilarious account of the tribulations of being "SOE-minded". I haven't done a lot of reading about the OSS, now that you mention it, and should probably remedy that. Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes is a good read as long as you don't mind being very, very depressed at how chronically criminal and incompetent the CIA has been throughout its history. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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ebony14
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Jan-24-17, 09:26 AM (EDT) |
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9. "RE: Espionage"
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>I liked that one okay? But I think I have an unusually high tolerance >for experimental form and also I may have been exactly the target >audience subject-matter-wise. > >With Merchant Princes, it was more the constant background refrain of >"all the ways I find high fantasy unrealistic, let me show you them" >that got to me. Yeah, I stuck with it for a few of the books, but really haven't pursued that series. I did like some of the stuff in it, and it worked for me to come at it as if it were a set of spy novels, rather than fantasy novels. Coincidentally, what got me interested in this was the Laundry books, which I like a lot better than the Merchant Princes stuff. Ebony the Black Dragon "Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard." |
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Gryphon
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Jan-23-17, 02:48 PM (EDT) |
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5. "RE: Espionage"
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I am vaguely amused by this thread when I notice it in the list, solely because years ago, I had a Sims 3 character who was a writer, and one of the things I had to do a lot of while playing him was make up titles for his books. One of his best-sellers was called Espionage! (followed a short time later by the less successful, but still well-received, More Espionage!). A number of them turned up later on as books by the UF version of Rahne Sinclair in the Featured Document about same, including the Espionage! trilogy, although I can't remember now if Espionage! III: Intrigue in Lyons actually appeared in the game. :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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