A groundbreaking history of intelligence, from its classical origins to the onset of the digital-age surveillance state, shares authoritative insights into its role in major events and its misuse, uncertainties and vulnerabilities.
The author revisits 1924-1918 to tell the story of WWI through 100 key events, developments and themes. Each one is crystallized through a particular object or artifact, most of them drawn from the unparalleled collections of the Imperial War Museums.