Introduction: The Lost History of Global Intelligence --
1. In the Beginning: Spies of the Bible and Ancient Egypt from Moses to the Last Supper --
2. Intelligence Operations in Ancient Greece: Myth and Reality from Odysseus to Alexander the Great --
3. Intelligence and Divination in the Roman Republic --
4. The Art of War and the Arthashastra: How China and India Took an Early Lead over Greece and Rome --
5. The Roman Empire and the Untermenschen --
6. Muhammad and the Rise of Islamic Intelligence --
7. Inquisitions and Counter-Subversion --
8. Renaissance Venice and the Rise of Western Intelligence --
9. Ivan the Terrible and the Origins of Russian State Security --
10. Elizabeth I, Walsingham and the Rise of English Intelligence --
11. The Decline of Early Stuart and Spanish Intelligence, and the Rise of the French Cabinet Noir --
12. Intelligence and Regime Change in Britain: From the Civil War to the Popish Plot --
13. Intelligence and the Era of the Sun King --
14. Codebreakers and Spies in Ancien Régime Europe: From the Hanoverian Succession to the Seven Years War --
15. Intelligence and American Independence --
16. The French Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars --
17. The Napoleonic Wars --
18. Intelligence and Counter-Revolution. Part I: From the Congress of Vienna to the 1848 Revolutions --
19. Intelligence and Counter-Revolution. Part II: From 1848 to the Death of Karl Marx --
20. The Telegraph, Mid-Century Wars and the 'Great Game' --
21. 'The Golden Age of Assassination: Anarchists, Revolutionaries and the Black Hand, 1880-1914 --
22. The Great Powers and Foreign Intelligence, 1890-1909 --
23. Intelligence and the Coming of the First World War --
24. The First World War. Part I: From the Outbreak of War to the Zimmermann Telegram --
25. The First World War. Part 2: From American Intervention to Allied Victory --
26. SIGINT and HUMINT between the Wars --
27. The 'Big Three' and Second World War Intelligence --
28. Intelligence and the Victory of the Grand Alliance --
29. The Cold War and the Intelligence Superpowers --
30. 'Holy Terror': From the Cold War to 9/11
Conclusion: Twenty-First-Century Intelligence in Long-Term Perspective.
