THE PUZZLE FACTORY: SPIES COURTESANS, AND CHARLATANS IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Book ID/图书代码： 00110914B70880

English Summary/英文概要： The Great War initiated industrial scale killing and adopted technology as part of the panoply of war. The airplane, the tank, poison gas and a host of other killing machines and substances made their global debut. Remarkably, the other dramatic addition to war, diplomacy and subversion was the introduction of the professional spy agency. It was a modest beginning for some – Britain’s famous MI6 or SIS began in 1909 in a small apartment. France, on the other hand, has had a much longer history.

In 1871 the French Deuxième Bureau (part of military intelligence) was established but they squandered their prewar years trying to prove Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish General Staff officer, was a German spy. The German military intelligence predated the German Empire and was established in 1866 as part of Prussia’s intelligence effort to undermine and spy on the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The espionage game in the First World War,however, oscillated between a small number of professional intelligence agents and a host of courtesans and charlatans. Characters like Mata Hari and Sidney Reilly were used as much as they used the covert world of intelligence gathering and in the end paid a harsh price for a lifestyle of deceit and betrayal. Ultimately, the strange and eccentric characters that vied for the collection and sale of information contributed to the origins of the tradecraft of the spy in the Second World War and that of the Cold War.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 第一次世界大战带来了无尽的杀戮，各式各样的科技成为了战争中浓墨重彩的一笔。飞机、坦克、毒气和众多杀人武器和药品在世界大战中纷纷登场，另外，在战争中颇具戏剧色彩的就是专业间谍，以及它们的代名词：外交和破坏了。英国著名的军情五处和战略军事系统在1909年始于一间小公寓里。而法国在间谍方面则有更长的历史。1871年法国Deuxieme局(军事情报的一部分)成立了，但它们荒废了战前的几年时间来证明法国犹太参谋将军，阿尔弗雷德•德雷福斯是一位德国间谍。德国军情处成立于1906年，比德帝国成立的时间还早，作为普鲁士军情处的一部分，负责破坏和暗中监视奥匈帝国。

但是，一战中间谍游戏的参与者并不全是专业的间谍，还有更大一部分是由妓女和骗子组成的。例如玛塔·哈里和西德尼·赖利等，他们收集了重要的情报，却也被这个神秘的世界利用，遭到了欺骗和背叛。最终，这群买卖情报的古怪人物导致了二战和冷战中间谍情报技术的起源。（XAT）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 安德烈·吉列马特是西蒙弗雷泽大学希腊语研究会的主席。他曾著有《沙堡——英裔美国人间谍》和《中东干预》（圣马丁出版社）；《红色卫城》、《黑色恐惧：希腊内战和苏维埃与美国的对抗起源，1943-1949》（基本书局）；《古希腊中的叛国者和间谍》、《巴尔干战争》（基本书局）；《国际第一内战，1946-1949》（耶鲁大学出版社）。安德烈是加拿大国家安全顾问委员会的成员。

Andre Gerolymat os holds the chair of Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. His previous books include: Castles Made of Sand-A Century of Anglo-American Espionage and Intervention in The Middle East (St. Martin’s Press); Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War and the Origins of Soviet-American Rivalry, 1943–1949 (Basic Books) Guerrilla Warfare and Espionage in Greece, 1940-1944; Espionage and Treason in Classical Greece; The Balkan Wars (Basic Books) and the forthcoming The First International Civil War – Greece 1946-49 (Yale University Press). He is a member of Canada’s Advisory Council on National Security.

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