Cover of Active measures

Active measures

by Thomas Rid · 2020

+ Want to read

"This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms"—

Genre
spy thrillerspy thrillerMore like thisLess of this
Themes
technologytechnologyMore like thisLess of this
Setting
World War IIWorld War IIMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Subject
politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 512 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare prices

Liked Active measures? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Active measures. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The Reality Game Samuel Woolley · 2020 Shares propaganda, social media, politics
  2. The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda David Welch · 1994 Shares propaganda, politics, World War II
  3. Show me a hero Ted Allbeury · 1992 Shares espionage, Soviet Union, spy
  4. الجاسوسية والجاسوسية المضادة Celina Bledowska, Jonathan Bloch · 1987 Shares Soviet Union, espionage, spy
See more recommendations →

“If you want more of the same (spy thriller about technology), start with these.”

  1. Surveillance Valley Yasha Levine · 2018
  2. Hess Hitler and Churchill Peter Padfield · 2013
  3. Spying through a glass darkly David J. Alvarez · 2016
  4. The Zenith Secret: A CIA Insider Exposes the Secret War Against Cuba and the Plot That Killed the Kennedy Brothers Bradley Earl Ayers · 2007

“If it was the Soviet Union that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. In Stalin's secret service W. G. Krivitsky · 1939
  2. Deadly illusions John Edmond Costello · 1993
  3. In the enemy's house Howard Blum · 2018
  4. How propaganda works Jason Stanley · 2015

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era Stephen Ortiz · 2009
  2. Social Policy and Practice in Canada Alvin Finkel · 2006
  3. The Invasion Before Normandy: The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands Edwin P. Hoyt · 1985
  4. Modern Britain Sean Glynn, Alan Booth · 1995

Report a problem