This book explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith's Secret Service Bureau to Cameron's National Security Council. At the beginning of the 20th Century the British intelligence system was underfunde…
2009 will mark the 100th anniversary of Britain's MI5 and MI6 agencies, two of the oldest and most powerful secret intelligence services in the world. Secret Wars covers a century of triumphs and deceptions: from the last days of the British Empire, to Allied intelligence in Wor…
2009 will mark the 100th anniversary of Britain’s MI5 and MI6 agencies, two of the oldest and most powerful secret intelligence services in the world. Secret Wars covers a century of triumphs and deceptions: from the last days of the British Empire, to Allied intelligence in Wor…
The formation of state surveillance and the emergence of institutionalized political policing in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
British intelligence in Ireland, 1920-21: the final reports
by Hart, Peter
fromIrish narratives
GCHQ (Government Communication Headquarters) is the successor to the famous Bletchley Park wartime code-breaking organisation and is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the country. Richard Aldrich traces GCHQ's evolvement from a wartime code-breaking ope…
This book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in 20th-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars, up to and including its present roles in counter-espionage and counter-terrorism.
The Defence of the Realm marks an unprecedented publishing event: to commemorate the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian.
"Defend the Realm" reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars, up to and including its present roles in counterespionage and counterterrori…