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The Unsleeping Eye:

Secret Police and Their Victims
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Encounter Books, Mar 1, 2003 - Political Science - 367 pages
Denis Boyles examines the internal crises that have changed the personality of what was once La Belle France, transforming it into a nation afflicted with status anxiety. Vile France is a work that will gratify Francophobes everywhere and cause even the most committed defender of the Jacques Chirac worldview to crack an occasional smile.

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User Review  - Evan Thomas - Goodreads

I am almost embarrassed to say I like this book as much as I did. How fond of a book that has Himmler on the cover can you really be? The writing style is so chatty as to almost make you doubt the ... Read full review

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User Review  - Reed Business Information.

In his analysis of five eras in which "secret policing has been of vital importance to government," Australian writer Stove (Prince of Music) sheds new light on the intrigues of the major "spymasters ... Read full review

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Contents

Foreword
1
Afterword
315
Bibliography
343
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Stove is the author of Prince of Music, a study of the 16th century composer Palestrina.

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