Books by Jamie Bisher
The Intelligence War in Latin America, 1914-1922
World War I did not bypass Latin America. Within days of the war’s outbreak, European belligerents mobilized intelligence assets and secret diplomacy to compete for Latin America’s allegiances and resources. This intelligence war entangled all of the American republics and even Japan. Dreary consular offices from the Rio Grande to the Straits of Magellan were abruptly thrust into covert activities, trafficking in fugitives, running contraband and conducting sabotage. Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements, big oil, international banks and businesses were also drawn in.
Drawing on long-classified U.S. intelligence documents, this narrative of the Latin American intelligence war reveals the complexity and chaos behind the placid veneer of wartime Pan-America. The author connects the dots between Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Lima, Havana, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, London, Washington, Tokyo and dozens of safe houses, front companies, consulates, legations and headquarters in between. Scores of secret operations and unrecognized veterans of the intelligence war are revealed.
Drawing on long-classified U.S. intelligence documents, this narrative of the Latin American intelligence war reveals the complexity and chaos behind the placid veneer of wartime Pan-America. The author connects the dots between Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Lima, Havana, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, London, Washington, Tokyo and dozens of safe houses, front companies, consulates, legations and headquarters in between. Scores of secret operations and unrecognized veterans of the intelligence war are revealed.
$75 softcover (price may vary)
Photos, glossary, appendices, notes, bibliography, index ISBN 978-0-7864-3350-6 ebook ISBN 978-1-4766-2026-8 2015 ASK YOUR LIBRARY OR ORGANIZATION TO ORDER IT! |
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White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian
The gripping story of a forgotten Russia in turmoil, when the line between government and organized crime blurred into a chaotic continuum of kleptocracy, vengeance and sadism. It tells the tale of a fugitive Cossack captain who brashly led seven cohorts into a mutinous garrison at Manchuli, a squalid bordertown on Russia's frontier with Manchuria in the last days of 1917. The garrison had gone Red, revolted against its officers, and become a dangerous, ill-disciplined mob. Cossack Captain Grigori Semenov cleverly harangued the garrison into laying down its arms and boarding a train that carried it back into the Bolsheviks' tenuous territory. Through such bold action, Semenov and a handful of Cossack brethren established themselves as the warlords of Eastern Siberia and Russia's Pacific maritime provinces during the next bloody year. Like inland pirates, they menaced the Trans-Siberian Railroad with fleets of armored trains, Mongol cavalry, European mercenaries and pressgang cannon fodder. They undermined Admiral Kolchak's White armies, destroyed Siberian democracy, ruthlessly liquidated all Reds, terrorized the population, sold out to the Japanese, and antagonized the American Expeditionary Force and Czech Legion in a frenzied orchestration of the Russian Empire's Götterdämmerung. Historians have long recognized that Ataman Semenov and company were a nasty lot. This book details precisely how nasty they were...
$45 softcover (price may vary)
Photos, glossary, appendices, notes, bibliography, index ISBN-13: 978-0415571340 |
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