MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-1949

Informationen zum Autor Keith Jeffery was Professor of British History at Queen's University, Belfast, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. In 1998 he was the Lees Knowles Lecturer in Military Science at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2003-4, Parnell Fellow in Irish Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was the author of fifteen books and lived in Northern Ireland. Klappentext 'Reads like the script for a Bond film' Mail on Sunday A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organisation in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of espionage, the two world wars, modern British government and the conduct of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 is a uniquely important examination of the role and significance of intelligence in the modern world. Zusammenfassung The first - and only - history of the Secret Intelligence Service, written with full and unrestricted access to the closed archives of the Service for the period 1909-1949.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Jeffery, Jeffery Keith
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9781408810057
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-1005-7
• No. of pages: 840
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 39 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; Geheimdienst, England : Politik, Zeitgeschichte, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, Espionage and secret services