MI5 in the Great War

Nigel West (editor)

ISBN 10: 1849546703 / ISBN 13: 9781849546706

Verlag: Biteback, 2014

Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers K06U-00879

Inhaltsangabe:

In 1921, MI5 commissioned a comprehensive, top-secret review of the organisation's operations during the First World War. Never intended for circulation outside of the government, all seven volumes of this fascinating and unique document remained locked away in MI5's registry - until now. Recently declassified and published here for the first time, MI5 in the Great War is filled with detailed, and previously undisclosed, accounts centring on the Security Service's activities during the conflict. The main narrative examines MI5's various attempts to both manage and detect double agents; the detection and execution of enemy spies; its study of German pre-war espionage; and the Kaiser's personal network of spies seeking to infiltrate British intelligence. Coinciding with the centenary of the start of the Great War, this historically significant document has been edited and brought up to date by bestselling writer and historian Nigel West, providing an extraordinary insight into the early years of MI5 and its first counterintelligence operations.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: NIGEL WEST is a military historian specialising in security and intelligence topics. He was voted 'the experts' expert' by a panel of other spy writers in The Observer in November 1989, and the Sunday Times has commented: 'His information is so precise that many people believe he is the unofficial historian of the secret services. West's sources are undoubtedly excellent. His books are peppered with deliberate clues to potential front-page stories.' He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence and Global War Studies and, for the past three years, he has chaired the panel of judges for the annual St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year award. He is also the recipient of the US Association of Former Intelligence Officers' first Lifetime Literature Achievement Award.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: MI5 in the Great War
Verlag: Biteback
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag