Cultures of Intelligence in the Era of the World Wars

Cultures of Intelligence analyses the intelligence services of Germany, Britain, the USA, and France in the first half of the twentieth century. It asks whether there were national traditions in intelligence, or whether each of the sophisticated Western intelligence powers was part of a transnational intelligence culture? The book is a contribution to the cultural turn in intelligence studies. Its underlying purpose is to place intelligence in its proper historical and comparative context. As such it is also a contribution to the history of political culture and its study.

1 - Cultures of Intelligence in the Era of the World Wars: An Introduction
2 - National Cultures of Military Intelligence? Comparative Perspectives
3 - Political Culture and Intelligence Culture: France before the Great War
4 - Culture and the Development of British Intelligence
5 - The Men and Women of American Intelligence before the CIA
6 - 'My strength is my mistrust': Hitler and his Military Intelligence on the Eastern Front
7 - Irish Police Intelligence, 1820s-1922
8 - The Evolution of the Military Intelligence System in Germany, 1890-1918
9 - Embarrassing Indiscretions: Embarrassing Indiscretions: The Origins and Culture of US National Security Whistleblowing in the Interwar Years
10 - Villains, Liars, Soldiers, and Patriots: Perceptions of Espionage and the Politics of Emotion in fin-de-siécle France
11 - Soldiers Cannot Write and Amateurs Do Not Understand: History and the Formation of the Culture of Intelligence in Britain, 1917-1957
12 - Secrecy is the Essence of Successful Warfare. Publicity is the Essence of Successful Journalism: Public Discourses on Intelligence in Britain 1900-1927
13 - Talking Intelligence-the American Way: The American Public and National Intelligence in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
14 - Ways of Seeing War: Hollywood, the OSS, and the Logistics of Perception
15 - Culture, Adaptation, and Change in British Intelligence in the Transition from World War to Cold War
16 - Intelligence Without a Homeland: Jewish Cultural and Political Approaches to Intelligence, 1897-1948
17 - The Imperial Cultures of French Security Intelligence from World War to Decolonization War Culture
18 - Shifting Contexts: The American Turn Towards Internationalism and Globalism and the Rise of the US Intelligence System

Simon Ball is Professor of History at the University of Leeds Philipp Gassert is Professor of History at the University of Mannheim Andreas Gestrich is Professor of History at the University of Trier Sönke Neitzel is Professor of History at the University of Potsdam