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The secret world of espionage [videorecording (DVD)] / various presenters.

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Wondrium/Teaching Company, 2022.

DVD 327.12 S446

Espionage -- History.

Spies -- History.

Intelligence service -- History.

Wondrium (Series). History. Military history.

Wondrium (Series).

Alternate title:

Wondrium. The secret world of espionage [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

2 videodiscs (273 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Please note: The Wondrium series of college-level audio and video courses was formerly known as The Great Courses.

Course no. 90103.

9 lectures/total running time approx. 273 min.

Closed-captioned.

Disc 1. Spies: facts and fiction -- The human element -- The great game -- Beyond the femme fatale -- Strange bedfellows -- Disc 2. Making codes, breaking codes -- The mole and the hunter -- The art of counterintelligence -- Too many secrets.

Presenters: Alma Katsu, Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Lynne Olson, Richard B. Spence, Hugh Wilford.

In the nine episodes of The Secret World of Espionage, shine a light into the shadowy world of spy craft with a distinguished panel of historians--including a former intelligence case officer--in search of the secret meeting places, complex codes, stealth observations, and cutting-edge technologies spies have used throughout history. How much does pop culture get wrong about espionage? What traits make for exceptional spies and possible double agents? What happens when intelligence operations fail? Learn why the answers are more intriguing than anything pop culture could come up with.

Filmed lectures.

Educational films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Liulevicius, Vejas G.

Spence, Richard B., 1951-

Wilford, Hugh, 1965-

Teaching Company.

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