MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations, 1909-45

West, Nigel

ISBN 10: 0297782908 / ISBN 13: 9780297782902

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983

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Type: Book pp xxll, 266. Prior owner name to flyleaf. 1st printing.

Seller Inventory # 026385

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations, 1909-45
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297782908
• ISBN 13: 9780297782902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • British History and Politics

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Synopsis

Nigel West's book traces the history of MI 5 from its modest beginnings in 1909 until 1945. The focus is on its role in WW II, recalling the enemy agents rounded up in Britain; the manipulation of the Axis espionage networks by the use of "turned" Abwehr agents and the all-important check on its success provided by the intercepted German signals decoded at Bletchley.

Laced with true anecdotes as bizarre and readable as espionage thrillers, this book is based on interviews of Nazi and Soviet agents, counter-intelligence officers, case officers and, most remarkably, more than a dozen of the double agents.

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