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Most secret agent of empire : Reginald Teague-Jones, master spy of the great game / Taline Ter Minassian ; translated by Tom Rees.
Van Pelt Library UB271.G72 T4713 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ter Minassian, Taline.
- Standardized Title:
- Reginald Teague-Jones. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Teague-Jones, Reginald, 1889-1988.
- Teague-Jones, Reginald.
- Spies--Great Britain--Biography.
- Spies.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Contents:
- 1 Childhood in Liverpool and St Petersburg 9
- Liverpool: birthplace and departure point 10
- Pendennis Street 10
- Liverpool: 'Second City of the Empire' 12
- An Englishman in Russia 13
- Dazzling St Petersburg 13
- A German Education at St Petersburg: the Annenschule 16
- Red Sunday: memories of the 1905 Revolution 19
- Warning bells and 'ice-hilling' 19
- The preludes to an expected drama 21
- Caught in the crowd: Teague-Jones, witness to the massacre 23
- 2 From the Punjab to the North West Frontier: The Making of a Gentleman of the Raj 27
- An ambition: joining the Indian Political Service 28
- A foretaste of the Frontier: the Punjab 28
- The Indian Political Service: a caste within the colonial administration 31
- A shadow organisation: the Indian Political Intelligence Service 34
- The training-ground: the North West Frontier Province 36
- Administrative and political frontiers: controlling the hinterland 37
- Sherani country 39
- The Frontier: a territory for elites? 44
- 3 The Persian Gulf and the Hunt for 'Mr Wassmuss' 49
- The Great War and Persia 50
- Iran during the First World War: the theory and practice of 'neutrality' 51
- Jihad and pointed helmets 52
- A police force in the South: the South Persia Rifles (SPR) 54
- The tribulations of the 'German Lawrence in the Persian Gulf 56
- Wassmuss, a model field-agent 57
- Reginald Teague-Jones on Wassmuss's track 60
- Persia and the Russian Revolution 63
- On the road to Meshed 64
- Meshed: Teague-Jones at the Turkestan frontier 68
- 4 Ashkhabad and the Transcaspian Episode 73
- A Secret Mission at the gates of Central Asia in 1918 74
- First impressions of Transcaspia 75
- Transcaspia after the Russian Revolution: from the Red offensive to the emergence of a Turkmen power 79
- The brief history of a transient government: the Transcaspian government 82
- Reginald Teaguefones: Political Representative in Transcaspia' 84
- 'This is a railway war' 85
- A railway government 88
- Building an intelligence network in Transcaspia 91
- From improvisation to retreat: the Transcaspian episode 94
- The Turkmen question: an instrumental strategy? 95
- An intelligence service in Yomut country 98
- Malmiss: game over 101
- 5 The Legend of the Twenty-Six Commissars: Teague-Jones, Hero or Villain? 105
- Baku: 1918 106
- The country before the battle 106
- Baku: the geostrategic prize 108
- The siege of Baku 110
- The drama of the twenty-six commissars: the anatomy of an execution 116
- A political drama with a railway ending 116
- Passengers for Krasnovodsk 119
- Diminished responsibilities 122
- A malicious propaganda legend' (Teague-Jones, November 1979) 125
- The origins of the Soviet case: Vadim Chaikin's inquiry 127
- Shot or decapitated? 130
- The culprit on stage: Teague-Jones in Soviet iconography 134
- 6 The Retreat of the White Armies: From Constantinople to the Caucasus (1919-21) 139
- A nest of spies in Constantinople 140
- In the ruins of the Ottoman Empire: Constantinople in 1919 141
- 'Beefsteaks a la Hoover-Nansen' 143
- A meeting with General Wrangel 146
- The Caucasian imbroglio 149
- Back to Baku 150
- Georgia on the eve of the Red invasion 154
- The view from Mount Ararat (February 1921) 160
- Teague-Jones and the Soviet-Turkish Entente 163
- A confluence of interests 163
- Ajaria: a strategic position on the Soviet-Turkish frontier 166
- Plans for a Muslim policy: an Alliance counter-strategy against Russia 168
- 7 Ronald Sinclair, Imperial Traveller 173
- 'Zobeida and T: A Persian Odyssey 174
- An opaque mission in Iran for a combination of partners 175
- Levantine encounters 178
- Across the Syrian Desert 180
- Persian adventures: to India by the back door 182
- Kurdistan to Iranian Azerbaijan: assessing Soviet influence 182
- Iran from north to south: Tehran to Bushire 186
- Iran from west to east: return to Baluchistan 191
- The colonial eye behind the camera 193
- A Cairo idyll... 194
- A passenger of Imperial Airways 198
- A season in Tibet 202
- S. Ronald Sinclair in America (1941-60) 205
- British Security Coordination at the heart of Anglo-American relations during the Second World War 207
- Rockefeller Center, 38th Floor, Room 3801 207
- June 1941: an emergency mission to Bermuda 210
- Major Sinclair, BSC Coordination officer 216
- The Anglo-American relationship and the test of India 218
- The IPI: from imperial security to Anglo-American collaboration 218
- The India League of America: the rising power of a pressure group 222
- Counter-propaganda in the land of democracy 227
- The transfer of power 230
- The other side of the mirror 231
- 'Sahib! Sahib!' 233
- Return to the North West Frontier 236.
- Notes:
- Originally published as Reginald Teague-Jones: au service secret de l'Empire Britannique, Paris: Grasset, c2012.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190210762
- 0190210761
- OCLC:
- 907102645
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