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Secret service in the Cold War : an SIS officer from Philby to the Cuban Missle Crisis and the Balkans / Lieutenant Colonel, John B. Sanderson and Myles Sanderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colonel, Lieutenant, author.
- Sanderson, John B., author.
- Sanderson, Myles, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spies--Great Britain--Biography.
- Spies.
- Secret service--Great Britain.
- Secret service.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (490 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England : Frontline Book, 2018.
- Summary:
- The action-packed biography of a British intelligence officer who took part in major political events of the 20th Century before and during the Cold War. World War II had been won, but relationships between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union were weakening as the nuclear arms race made world peace precarious.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Plates and Maps
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Indian Childhood
- Chapter 2 Return to Britain, 1929
- Chapter 3 Army Enlistment, Cliffs of Dover and War, 1938-42
- Chapter 4 Hut 6 at Bletchley Park and ULTRA
- Chapter 5 Voyage Back to India, Khyber Pass and Sikhs
- Chapter 6 The Arakan Battle, December 1942-May 1943
- Chapter 7 The Battle of Sangshak, March 1944
- Chapter 8 D-Day, 1944
- Chapter 9 SOE - RAF Operations from Italy, 1944
- Chapter 10 Elephant Point and POW Liberation, 1945
- Chapter 11 The Atomic and Plutonium Bombs
- Chapter 12 The Iron Curtain, Berlin and Hess
- Chapter 13 Intelligence Corps Depot, MI4, London
- Chapter 14 Start of the Cold War, Berlin Airlift, 1948
- Chapter 15 Paris Mission and UNO, 1948
- Chapter 16 Behind the Iron Curtain, Bulgaria, 1949
- Chapter 17 Clandestine War Behind the Iron Curtain
- Chapter 18 Edirne Intelligence Centre, Turkey
- Chapter 19 Cyprus-Egypt Intelligence SIS Course, 1953
- Chapter 20 Gold Tunnel, Berlin, 1953-6
- Chapter 21 Suez Invasion, 1956
- Chapter 22 Military Attaché, Sofia and Berlin Wall, 1961-2
- Chapter 23 Cuban Missile Crisis, NATO HQ, Paris, 1962
- Chapter 24 France Leaves NATO and 'Fairwell'
- Chapter 25 AFCENT Planning, Holland, 1968-9
- Chapter 26 Liaison Officer, French Army, Germany, 1969-71
- Chapter 27 Kim Philby in Berlin, 1981
- Chapter 28 Operation RYAN and Exercise Able Archer, 1983
- Chapter 29 Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War
- Chapter 30 Coup by South African Intelligence
- Chapter 31 Yeltsin and the End of Communism
- Chapter 32 TA Reserve, Last SIS Mission to Sarajevo, 1995
- Chapter 33 The Two Johns and Kriegsglück
- Appendix I Locations of Operations Flown by John Aldwinckle with 148 Squadron, August-November 1944
- Notes.
- Bibliography and Sources
- Plate section.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5267-4093-1
- 1-5267-4091-5
- OCLC:
- 1099981300
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