The Secret Cold War
The Official History of ASIO, 1976 - 1989
$40.18
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2017
Summary
The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn’t end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions between the superpowers continued to play out across the world.
Until now, few would have known of the surprising extent of clandestine operations in Australia by foreign intelligence operatives and the violence-prone activities of local extremist groups from the Middle East, Armenia and Croatia in the 1970s and 1980s. Meanwhi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760297428 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760297429 |
| Author: | John Blaxland |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 765g |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 153mm x 232mm |
| Series: | Official History of Asio |
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This is one of our most important official histories – The Hon. Kim Beazley - AC * Australian Ambassador to the United States of America *
John Blaxland
John Blaxland is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, and a former Director of Joint Intelligence Operations at Headquarters Joint Operations Command. He is the author of the second volume in The Official History of ASIO, The Protest Years.
Rhys Crawley works at the Australian War Memorial where he is an author of the official history of Australian military operations in Afghanistan. Prior to this, while working on all three volumes of The Official History of ASIO, he was a Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.
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