A gripping account of the unflagging battle by spies, code breakers, ambassadors and confidence-men who sought to protect Elizabeth I from the most powerful rulers of Europe who conspired to destroy her, their plans most fully realized by the Spanish Armada.
A gripping account of the unflagging battle by spies, code breakers, ambassadors and confidence-men who sought to protect Elizabeth I from the most powerful rulers of Europe who conspired to destroy her, their plans most fully realized by the Spanish Armada.
Follows the efforts of German military intelligence to recruit Welsh nationalists as collaborators prior to an invasion and MI5's disinformation campaign centered on an imaginary cell of Welsh saboteurs.
"The book explores records that MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, maintained on influential left-wing writers from 1930 to 1960"-- "Britain's domestic intelligence agencies maintained secret records on many left-wing writers after the First World War. Drawing on rece…
"The book explores records that MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, maintained on influential left-wing writers from 1930 to 1960"-- "Britain's domestic intelligence agencies maintained secret records on many left-wing writers after the First World War. Drawing on rece…
"Britain's domestic intelligence agencies maintained secret records on many left-wing writers after the First World War. Drawing on recently declassified material from 1930 to 1960, this revealing study examines how leading figures in Britain's literary scene fell under MI5 and …