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Authors: Nigel West
Spy!
(with Richard Deacon)
MI5: British Security Service Operations 1909–45
MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations 1909–45
A Matter of Trust: MI5 1945–72
Unreliable Witness: Espionage Myths of the Second World War
The Branch: A History of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch
GARBO: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II
(with Juan Pujol)
GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War 1900–86
The Friends: Britain’s Post-War Secret Intelligence Operations
Molehunt: Searching for Soviet Spies in MI5
Games of Intelligence: Classified Conflict of International Espionage
Seven Spies Who Changed the World
Secret War: The Story of SOE
The Faber Book of Espionage
(Anthology)
The Illegals: The Double Lives of the Cold War’s Most Secret Agents
The Faber Book of Treachery
(Anthology)
The Secret War for the Falklands: SAS, MI6 and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost
Counterfeit Spies
The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives
(with Oleg Tsarev)
VENONA: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War
The Third Secret: The CIA, Solidarity and the KGB’s Plot to Kill the Pope
MASK: MI5’s Penetration of the Communist Party of Great Britain
The Guy Liddell Diaries
(Ed. 1939–42; 1942–45)
Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence
Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence
At Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britain’s Intelligence Agency, MI6
Historical Dictionary of Cold War Counterintelligence
Historical Dictionary of World War II Intelligence
The Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage
TRIPLEX: More Secrets from the Cambridge Spies
Historical Dictionary of Ian Fleming’s James Bond: Fact and Fiction
Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence
SNOW: The Double Life of a World War II Spy
(with Madoc Roberts)
Historical Dictionary of World War I Intelligence
MI5 in the Great War
First published in Great Britain in 2015 by
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Set in Bulmer
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 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.
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A real-life James Bond, alleged to have spied for at least four nations and executed on the direct orders of Stalin himself, Sidney Reilly left a trail of false identities that made him precisely the type of person the secret intelligence service needed as an agent. Hero, conman, master spy, womaniser – who really was the ‘Ace of Spies’?
In September 1925, Sidney Reilly journeyed across the Russian frontier on a mission to overthrow the existing Bolshevik regime and restore the Czar. Yet, soon after, he vanished without a trace…
Just like the life he led, the circumstances surrounding his death remain shrouded in mystery and speculation. This thrilling autobiography, including entries from Reilly’s own secret notes, reveals the intriguing, and often perilous, adventures and exploits of the man widely credited as being the original twentieth-century super-spy – and an inspiration for Ian Fleming’s 007 thrillers.
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Harry Chapman Pincher is regarded as one of the finest investigative reporters of the twentieth century. Over the course of a glittering six-decade career, he became notorious as a relentless investigator of spies, proving to be a constant thorn in the side of the establishment.
It is for his sensational 1981 book,
Their Trade is Treachery,
that he is best known. In this extraordinary volume he dissected the Soviet Union’s infiltration of the western world and helped unmask the Cambridge Five. He also outlined his suspicions that former MI5 chief Roger Hollis was in fact a super-spy poisoning the secret intelligence service from within.
However, the Hollis revelation was just one of the book’s many astounding coups. Its impact at the time was immense, sending ripples through the British intelligence and political landscapes. This eye-opening volume is an incomparable and definitive account of the thrilling nature of Cold War espionage and treachery.
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The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park are now believed to have shortened the duration of the Second World War by up to two years. During the dark days of 1941, as Britain stood almost alone against the Nazis, this remarkable achievement seemed impossible.
This extraordinary book, originally published as
Action This Day,
includes descriptions by some of Britain’s foremost historians of the work of Bletchley Park, from the breaking of Enigma and other wartime codes and ciphers to the invention of modern computing and its influence on Cold War codebreaking. Crucially, it features personal reminiscences and very human stories of wartime codebreaking from former Bletchley Park codebreakers themselves. This edition includes new material from one of those who was there, making
The Bletchley Park Codebreakers
compulsive reading.
All royalties from this book will go to the Bletchley Park Trust.
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