"Originally published in German as Der geheime Krieg: Verrat, Spionage und moderne Fiktion in 2007 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Translating betrayal: signpost for the secret war / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young -- Introduction: treason, secrets, and fiction -- Part 1. Borges -- a poetics of treason -- Part 2. Treason and secrecy in the modern age -- Chapter 1. The age of treason -- Chapter 2. Logics of political secrecy -- Chapter 3. Secret intelligence -- Part 3. The great game -- Chapter 4. Strategic space -- Chapter 5. Local knowledge -- Chapter 6. The partisan, the traitor -- Part 4. Spies, male and female: the First World War and the war of the sexes -- Part 5. Agents of the world revolution -- Chapter 7. "Bertolt Brecht, minstrel of the GPU" -- Part 6. Cold War -- Chapter 8. War games: war as hypothesis -- Chapter 9. The human factor -- Part 7. State paranoia -- Part 8. Invisible government: JFK -- Part 9. After 9/11 -- Chapter 10. The future of enmity: nets, swarms, viruses -- Conclusion.
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