Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

The advent of a world economic recession has not interrupted the proliferation of Scarecrow's Historical Dictionaries, which having already expanded to cover the general history of nearly every country in the world, have more recently generated several new sub‐series on specialised topics. This latest volume includes about 700 articles, ranging in length from short definitions of 50 words to extended essays of nearly 2,000 words, on personalities, organizations, operations, incidents, places, and specialised technical terms related to intelligence services in Germany and Austria: perhaps the spymasters of the Austro‐Hungarian Monarchy, with names like Woinovich von Belobreska and Kolosvary de...