GDG- Books on intelligence

[Jeff Quinton]

I highly recommend Honorable Treachery as well.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Tom Ryan <pennmardel at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> <<I rely  on Fishel's "The Secret War for the Union" and Tidwell, Hall and
> Gaddy's "Come  Retribution
>
> Tom,
> <<What other books on intel do you suggest?>>
>
> Mike,
>
> Regarding intel from the Union side, "Grant's Secret Service" by William
> Feis is a good companion to Fishel's book.  It not only provides a
> detailed
> description of Grant's intel service while he was operating in
> Mississippi,
> but it picks up after Gettysburg and covers the Bureau of Military
> Information during Meade and Grant's command of the AoP.
>
> On the Confederate side. Tidwell's "April '65:  Confederate Covert Action
> in
> the American Civil War" is a sequel to "Come Retribution."  Also useful is
> "Spies of the Confederacy" by John Bakeless.  You might want to check out
> John Keegan's chapter on Stonewall's intel ops in the Valley in his
> "Intelligence in War."
>
> A good overview on U.S. intel is "Honorable Treachery:  A History of U.S.
> Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to
> the CIA" by G.J.A. O'Toole.  Part 3 deals with the Civil War.  "The
> Photographic History of the Civil War" also has a good section on "Secret
> Service."
>
> For intel on Gettysburg, Fishel devotes about the last seven chapters of
> "The Secret War" and I wrote a five-part series on the subject in
> Gettysburg
> Magazine (Issues 29-33) called "A Battle of Wits."
>
> There are many other books on specific intel topics, mostly about spying
> but
> also Signal Corps and use of Telegraph, etc., depending on what your
> interest may be.
>
> For the intel wonk there is "The Encyclopedia of American Intelligence and
> Espionage" by O'Toole, which has a lot of entries dealing with Civil War
> personalities and operations.
>
> Regards, Tom
>
>
>
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