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.

Simon Ball, Professor of Modern History, University of Leeds,Philipp Gassert, Professor of Modern History, University of Mannheim,Andreas Gestrich, Professor of Modern History, University of Trier,Sönke Neitzel, Professor of Modern History, University of Potsdam

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

1. Cultures of Intelligence in the Era of the World Wars: An Introduction, Simon Ball and Andreas Gestrich
2. National Cultures of Military Intelligence? Comparative Perspectives, Sönke Neitzel
I: Political Culture and Cultures of Military Intelligence
3. Political Culture and Intelligence Culture: France before the Great War, Peter Jackson
4. Culture and the Development of British Intelligence, Alan MacLeod
5. The Men and Women of American Intelligence before the CIA, Mark Stout
6. 'My strength is my mistrust': Hitler and his Military Intelligence on the Eastern Front, Magnus Pahl
II: Security and Cultures of Intelligence
7. Irish Police Intelligence, 1820s-1922, Jérôme aan de Wiel
8. The Evolution of the Military Intelligence System in Germany, 1890-1918, Markus Pöhlmann
9. Embarrassing Indiscretions: Embarrassing Indiscretions: The Origins and Culture of US National Security Whistleblowing in the Interwar Years, Kaeten Mistry
III: The Public Sphere and Cultures of Intelligence
10. Villains, Liars, Soldiers, and Patriots: Perceptions of Espionage and the Politics of Emotion in fin-de-siécle France, Deborah Bauer
11. Soldiers Cannot Write and Amateurs Do Not Understand: History and the Formation of the Culture of Intelligence in Britain, 1917-1957, Simon Ball
12. Secrecy is the Essence of Successful Warfare. Publicity is the Essence of Successful Journalism: Public Discourses on Intelligence in Britain 1900-1927, Michael Kranzdorf
13. Talking Intelligence-the American Way: The American Public and National Intelligence in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, Bernhard Sassmann
14. Ways of Seeing War: Hollywood, the OSS, and the Logistics of Perception, Simon Willmetts
IV: International Relations and Cultures of Intelligence
15. Culture, Adaptation, and Change in British Intelligence in the Transition from World War to Cold War, Huw Dylan
16. Intelligence Without a Homeland: Jewish Cultural and Political Approaches to Intelligence, 1897-1948, Shlomo Shpiro
17. The Imperial Cultures of French Security Intelligence from World War to Decolonization War Culture, Martin Thomas
18. Shifting Contexts: The American Turn Towards Internationalism and Globalism and the Rise of the US Intelligence System, Philipp Gassert