The Secret History of MI6
by Keith Jeffery
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- Hardcover
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- used, like new/light shelf wear
- ISBN 10
- 1594202745
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202742
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About This Item
The authorized history of the world's oldest and most storied foreign intelligence service, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documents.
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (also commonly known as MI6) was born a century ago amid fears of the rising power of other countries, especially Germany. The next forty years saw MI6 taking an increasingly important-and, until now, largely hidden-role in shaping the history of Europe and the world. This thorough, fascinating, and revelatory account draws on a wealth of archival materials never before seen by any outsider to unveil the inner workings of the world's first spy agency.
Synopsis
"Jeffery's book is perhaps the most authentic account one will ever read about how intelligence really works." -- The Washington Times Britain 's Special Intelligence Service, commonly called MI6, is not only the oldest and most storied foreign intelligence unit in the world-it is also the only one to open its archives to an outside researcher. The result, in this authorized history, is an unprecedented and revelatory look at an organization that essentially created, over the course of two world wars, the modern craft of spying. Examining innovations from invisible ink and industrial-scale cryptography to dramatic setbacks like the Nazi sting operations to bag British operatives, this groundbreaking history is as engrossing as any thriller-and much more revealing.
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- Bookseller
- The Real Book Shop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20895
- Title
- The Secret History of MI6
- Author
- Keith Jeffery
- Book Condition
- New used, like new
- Jacket Condition
- light shelf wear
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1594202745
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202742
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010-09
- Keywords
- Cold War, Spying
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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