Secret service : the making of the British intelligence community
1985, First Edition. London : Heinemann. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #478146
ISBN: 0434021105
Physical description; xviii, 619 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 568-581) and index. Contents; Victorian prologue: MID, NID and the Special Branch – Spies and spy scares: the birth of the Secret Service Bureau – Room 40: the rebirth of British codebreaking – Secret Intelligence on the Western Front – Counter-espionage and counter-subversion: MI5 and the Special Branch – "Adventures and romance in the Secret Intelligence Service in Red Russia": the failure of covert action – The Red menace at home – The Irish débâcle – GC & CS, SIS, and Anglo-Soviet relations 1920-1924 – Zinoviev letters and the breach with Russia – Depression: the MacDonald years – Appeasement: the road to Munich – Rumours of war and war – Winston Churchill and the making of the British intelligence community – Epilogue: war and peace – Notes – Bibliography – Index. Subjects; Intelligence service – Great Britain – History – 20th century. Secret service – Great Britain – History – 20th century.
Price: €14.95