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"Searching for Lord Haw-Haw is an authoritative account of the political lives of William Joyce. He became notorious as a fascist, an anti-Semite and then as a Second World War traitor when, assuming the persona of Lord Haw-Haw, he acted as a radio propagandist for the Nazis. It is an endlessly compelling story of simmering hope, intense frustration, renewed anticipation and ultimately catastrophic failure. This fully-referenced work is the first attempt to place Joyce at the centre of the turbulent, traumatic and influential events through which he lived. It challenges existing biographies, which have reflected not only Joyce's frequent calculated deceptions but also the suspect claims advanced by his family, friends and apologists. By exploring his rampant, increasingly influential narcissism it also offers a pioneering analysis of Joyce's personality and exposes its dangerous, destructive consequences. 'What a saga my life would make!' Joyce wrote from prison just before his execution. Few would disagree with him"--

Introduction: land of illusions -- The country of the three Kims -- The struggling national economy -- The emerging people's economy -- Propaganda, news, and South Korean soap operas -- Public declarations and private thoughts -- The human rights deficit -- Silent defectors -- Faint light at the end of the tunnel

Culture and Utopian Americans -- Utopian problems and explanations -- Utopia in the Great Depression -- A New Deal Utopian -- The seedman's new crop -- Bloom and harvest -- Constructing agreement -- Consensus : recruits and defectors -- Defining Utopia : Celo and its neighbors -- Utopian outcomes : development and change -- Conclusion : Americans and Utopians

Pt. I. Challenge from outside : the problem of non-legal nuclear weapon states -- pt. II. Challenges from within : the NPT defectors -- pt. III. Challenge from below: nuclear trafficking and terrorism -- pt. IV. Challenge from above : the unfulfilled nuclear disarmament pledge of the five legal nuclear-weapon states

The North Korea Human Rights Act -- Drinking from the fire hose -- Negotiations on humanitarian food aid, 2011-12 -- The United Nations role in North Korean human rights -- The free flow of information -- U.S. citizens detained in North Korea -- "Defectors": leaving the North and resettlement -- Humanitarian engagement with North Korea -- The North Korean Human Rights Act redux.

The A to Z of British Intelligence offers insight into the history and operations of British Intelligence through its more than 1,800 entries, covering a vast and varied cast of characters: the spies and their handlers, the moles and defectors, the political leaders, the top brass, the techniques and jargon, and the many different offices and organizations

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Propaganda, Media and Hegemony: The British Heritage -- 2 Media, Propaganda, Consensus and the Soviet Union, 1941-8 -- 3 Discipline and Consensus: The British News Media -- 4 The IRD: Inside the Knowledge Factory -- 5 IRD Distribution Patterns and Media Operations -- 6 Friends and Allies -- 7 Making Peace a Fighting Word -- 8 From the Inside Out: Defectors and the Gulag -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Introduction -- Prologue -- Part One. The greatest nation on Earth. A train through the mountains -- The city at the edge of the world -- The eyes on the wall -- The lady in black -- The man beneath the bridge -- The red shoes -- Boomtown -- The secret photograph -- To be a good communist -- 'Rocky island' -- 'The house is cursed' -- Tragedy at the bridge -- Sunlight on dark water -- 'The great heart has stopped beating' -- Girlfriend of a hoodlum -- 'By the time you read this, the five of us will no longer exist in this world' -- The lights of Changbai -- Over the ice -- Part Two. To the heart of the dragon. A visit to Mr. Ahn -- Home truths -- The suitor -- The wedding trap -- Shenyang girl -- Guilt call -- The men from the south -- Interrogation -- The plan -- The gang -- The comfort of moonlight -- The biggest, brashest city in Asia -- Career woman -- A connection to Hyesan -- The teddy-bear conversations -- The tormenting of Min-ho -- The love shock -- Destination Seoul -- Part Three. Journey into darkness. 'Welcome to Korea' -- The women -- House of unity -- The learning race -- Waiting for 2012 -- A place of ghosts and wild dogs -- An impossible dilemma -- Journey into night -- Under a vast Asian sky -- Lost in Laos -- Whatever it takes -- The kindness of strangers -- Shuttle diplomacy -- Long wait for freedom -- A series of small miracles -- 'I am prepared to die' -- The beauty of a free mind -- Epilogue.

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE EARLY SOCIALIST MOVEMENT -- II. THE EARLY LABOR MOVEMENT -- III. THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT AND THE WARS -- IV. THE RADOMIR REBELLION -- V. STAMBOLISKI AND THE COMMUNISTS -- VI. THE JUNE COUP -- VII. THE SEPTEMBER INSURRECTION -- VIII. DEFECTORS AND ALLIES -- IX. ALLIES AND DECOYS -- X. SOCIALISM AND BALKAN FEDERATION -- XI. COMMUNISM AND BALKAN FEDERATION -- XII. UNDERGROUND DECADE -- XIII. PURGE -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: LABOR LEGISLATION AND LABOR ORGANIZATION IN BULGARIA BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

During the Cold War a number of high-ranking Soviet citizens spied for the CIA, providing the United States with valuable information while putting themselves and their families in great danger. In this book a seasoned CIA field operator and station chief looks at what drove these agents to betray their own country. Unlike many authors who write about spies, John Hart knows the espionage profession first-hand, and his penetrating analysis of the motivations involved is based on top-secret operational files. Four major Soviet agents - Yuri Nosenko, the dissident KGB agent who disclosed the bugs

1. Introduction -- Part One: Between Wars? 1945-1967 -- 2. Origins: The World In 1946 -- 3. The Struggle For Europe -- 4. Nuclear Perils -- 5. Asian Theaters -- 6. Decolonization and Third World Struggles -- 7. Khrushchev and Kennedy -- Part Two: Living in the Cold War -- 8. National Security and Repression -- 9. Spies, Saboteurs, and Defectors -- 10. Cold War Cultures -- Part Three: The Struggle Redefined: 1968-1991 -- 11. Crisis of Ideologies: The World in 1968 -- 12. A Cold Peace, or War by Other Means? -- 13. Four Minutes to Midnight: The World in 1980 -- 14. The New Struggle -- 15. Endgame -- 16. Conclusion: Winners, Losers, and Inheritors.

"Tennent Bagley's Spymaster is the single most revealing book about espionage to emerge from the Cold War." —Edward Jay Epstein, author of Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIAFrom the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia's notorious KGB espionage apparatus. Rising through its ranks through hard work and keen understanding of how the spy and political games are played, he "handled" American and British defectors, recruited Western operatives as double agents, served as a ranking officer at the East Berlin and Vienn

Introduction: toward the elusive goal of reconciliation and reunification. Snyder, Scott: The end of history, the rise of ideology, and the pursuit of inter-Korean reconciliation. Lee Doowon: The economic outlook for reconciliation and reunification. Hassig, Ralph C. ; Oh Kongdan: The new North Korea. Kim, Samuel S.: China, Japan, and Russia in inter-Korean relations. Olsen, Edward A.: U.S. policy toward the inter-Korean dialogue. Dettke, Dieter: The mellowing of North Korean power. Lessons of reconciliation and unification for Korea from Germany. koh, Kelly ; Baek, Glenn: North Korean defectors. A window into a reunified Korea