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The secret world : behind the curtain of British intelligence in World War II and the Cold War / Hugh Trevor-Roper ; edited by Edward Harrison ; foreword by Sir Michael Howard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cold War.
- Intelligence service--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Intelligence service.
- World War, 1939-1945--Military intelligence--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (482 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- "Annotation Hugh Trevor-Roper's experiences working for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during the war had a profound impact on him and he later observed the world of intelligence with particular sharpness. To him, the subject of wartime espionage was as worthy of profound investigation and reflection as events from the more distant past. Expressing his observations through some of his most ironic and entertaining prose, Trevor-Roper wrote with a freedom he could not express publicly due to the Official Secrets Act. Based on previously unpublished material - including an extraordinary and previously-unseen correspondence with the exiled spy Kim Philby - this is a first-hand account of the intelligence world in World War II and its aftermath."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- 1.Sideways into SIS
- 2.Admiral Canaris
- 3.The Philby Affair
- 4.Deception
- 5.Ultra
- 6.Percy Sillitoe and Dick White
- 7.Anthony Blunt
- 8.Michael Straight
- 9.Peter Wright
- 10.Otto John and Reinhard Gehlen.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857724472
- 0857724479
- 9780755623686
- 0755623681
- 9780857737038
- 0857737031
- OCLC:
- 1160075573
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