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Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson by Steven E. Reading at times like a cloak-and-dagger mystery, this book describes the ingenious methods used to collect and disseminate secret intelligence in the Age of Sail. Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Most Secret and Confidential , please sign up.
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Blaine fit in to the world of intelligence and secret services in Napoleon's day, or if you've wondered how the Royal Navy conducted its own intelligence operations Steven Maffeo's "Most Secret and Confidential" gives you a clear, concise, and well-researched account of how intelligence operations were conducted in a world where information was sparse and slowly distributed. Maffeo explains how the Royal Navy slowly and painfully developed its signal and coding abilities, how agents were paid and recruited, how information was processed at the Admiralty and in the Cabinet, and how inventions like the semaphore telegraph tried to overcome distance in a world where a courier vessel at sea making twelve or thirteen knots was very nearly the fastest thing in the world.
Maffeo reminds his readers that in Napoleonic times, the Royal Navy's commanders in Indian waters were six months either way removed from London's orders, and that ships on the North American and West Indies stations might be, depending on weather and seas, six weeks away from diplomatic or military developments at home. For readers accustomed to a world of global satellite links, GPS, and the web, "Most Secret" is a reminder of how large the world once was, and how diplomacy and warfare had to be conducted when time and space had a wholly different quality Aug 28, Malcolm rated it it was amazing.
An excellent work of careful and thorough research, written with the more studious in mind but an easy history for the casual reader. Nov 08, Barry Wightman rated it really liked it.
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Love this stuff - the "age of fighting sail", Nelson, Trafalgar and all that. A well-written, deep dive into codes, code-breaking and the perils of lousy communications on ships of the line, the days of Patrick O'Brien's Master and Commander series. Got a terribly important message for London? How does a 3 month lag time sound? Krissie White rated it it was amazing Jul 10, Chris rated it it was ok Jun 01, Dan rated it liked it Mar 24, Malcolm rated it it was amazing May 16, Colin Marr rated it really liked it Oct 23,