Secret Service - The Making of The British Intelligence Community, HB/dj, 1985

Description: SECRET SERVICE - The Making of The British Intelligence Community, Christopher Andrew London: Heinemann, 1985, UK first edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, xviii, 616 pages, notes, bibliog., index. Secret Service is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of the emergence of one of the world's major intelligence communities. There are surprising revelations in every chapter. Detailed references to a wide and novel range of sources give Secret Service an authority lacking in much previous writing on the subject.Christopher Andrew shows how today's MI5 and MI6 (or SIS) owe their foundation to the Edwardian delusion that Britain was teeming with German spies; most were in fact imaginary. The rebirth of Britishcodebreaking and the rapid expansion of the intelligence community during the First World War under such legendaryfigures as Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming ("C"), Admiral Sir Reginald "Blinker" Hall, General Sir Vernon Kell and others, led to a mixture of remarkable successes and sometimes farcical confusion, which is here analysed for the first time. Secret Service also shows British intelligence against Soviet Russia in a new light. Celebrated secret agents such as Sidney Reilly and W. Somerset Maugham emerge as something of a liability. British codebreakers, however, provided a stream of intercepted Soviet communications which foreshadowed the Ultra secret of the Second World War. The stream dried up after a series of spectacular government indiscretions. Inter-war government neglect left the intelligence community ill-equipped to deal with the rise of Nazi Germany and led to a series of fiascos in which Whitehall failed to distinguish good intelligence from bogus intelligence plants. The extraordinary intelligence confusion of the 1930s was followed by a remarkable renaissance at the beginning of the Second World War. Christopher Andrew shows how a major new recruitment and the inspired leadership of Winston Churchill led to the intelligence community's finest hour and a decisive victory over its German opponents. New Terms 2018 ************************************************************ THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING WITH US - WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS. COMBINED POSTAGE- with Ebay?s new system, many of you cannot ask for an invoice. Be assured, if you must pay for a number of separate titles, we will always refund all overpays on combined postage when processing the order INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE NOTICE ! 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