Richard Wilmer Rowan (1894-1964) has been described as the foremost American non-fiction writer on the history of espionage. He was educated at Brown and Columbia and served in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service during World War I. He maintained a large international network of sources which provided him with information on intelligence activities.<br/>Rowan’s publications include:<br/>Sainte Séductre: An Inner View of the Boche At Bay, 1917<br/>Spy and Counter-Spy, 1928<br/>Spies and the Next War, 1934<br/>Modern Spies Tell Their Stories, 1934<br/>The Story of Secret Service, 1937<br/>Secret Agents Against America, 1939<br/>Terror In Our Time, 1941<br/>Spy Secrets, 1946<br/>Cuba: The Big Red Lie, 1963<br/>Secret Service: Thirty-Three Centuries of Espionage, 1967 (new and revised version of The Story of Secret Service, 1937)