Six: A History of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service - Softcover

Smith, Michael

 
9781849540971: Six: A History of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1849540977 ISBN 13: 9781849540971
Verlag: Biteback Publishing, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Six tells the complete story of the service's birth and early years, including the tragic, untold tale of what happened to Britain's extensive networks in Soviet Russia between the wars. It reveals for the first time how the playwright and MI6 agent Harley Granville Barker bribed the Daily News to keep Arthur Ransome in Russia, and the real reason Paul Dukes returned there. It shows development of tradecraftA" and the great personal risk officers and their agents took, far from home and unprotected. In Salonika, for example, Lieutenant Norman Dewhurst realised it was time to leave when he opened his door to find one of his agents hanging dismembered in a sack. This first part of Six takes us up to the eve of the conflict, using hundreds of previously unreleased files and interviews with key players to show how one of the world's most secretive of secret agencies originated and developed into something like the MI6 we know today. The second part, published in Spring 2012, will tell the story from the outbreak of World War Two to the present.

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Michael Smith is a former military intelligence officer and awardwinning journalist and author. He lives in Oxfordshire.

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Verlag
Biteback Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1849540977
ISBN 13 
9781849540971
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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