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Empire of secrets : british intelligence, the cold war, and the twilight of empire / Calder Walton.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection JN329.I6 W35 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walton, Calder, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intelligence service--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Intelligence service.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Cold War.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--20th century.
- Colonies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 411 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY: Overlook Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Discusses how Great Britain and the intelligence service MI5 played a crucial but virtually unseen role throughout the Cold War, revealing violent counterinsurgencies, urban warfare campaigns, and other sobering acts committed in an effort to destabilize Communist threats.
- Contents:
- Victoria's secrets: British Intelligence and Empire before the Second World War
- Strategic deception: British Intelligence, Special Operations and Empire in the Second World War
- 'The Red Light is Definitely Showing': M15, the British Mandate of Palestine and Zionist terrorism
- The Empire strikes back: the British Secret State and Imperial Security in the early Cold War
- Jungle warfare: British Intelligence and the Malayan emergency
- British Intelligence and the setting sun on Britain's African Empire
- British Intelligence, covert action and counter-insurgency in the Middle East
- Conclusion: British Intelligence: the last penumbra of Empire.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-393) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781468307153
- 1468307150
- OCLC:
- 829451572
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