Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain's Intelligence Services, Paperback - Simon Ball

As John le Carr 's fictional intelligence men admit, it was the case histories - constructed narratives serving shifting agendas - that shaped the ...

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Explores all of Britain's key land and sea campaigns and the dynamic relation among them during the Age of Revolution and Napoleon. Reveals how two...

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A century ago, almost any state could be competitive at espionage. Fifty years ago, only the Cold War alliances clustered around the two superpower...

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India Conquered traces the rise and fall of British power in South Asia.

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A new edition of the hidden history of Britain's WWII heroines, repackaging for the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Written in the own words of the wom...

From one of the country's foremost experts on military history, an insider view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history.

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Originally published in 1995 and drawing on both archives and oral testimony, this book analyses British strategic discourse and its influence on B...

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The leading intelligence expert behind }The Mitrokhin Archive{ presents a wide-ranging account of the development of intelligence and security oper...

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In this fully illustrated book, Simon Trowbridge tells the story of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He begins by making a comparison between the RSC...

A brilliantly compelling and insightful re-creation of one of the key moments of twentieth-century history: the partition and independence of India...

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A major new history of the Special Relationship between the secret services of the UK and the US, to mark 80 years since it began in February 1941....

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A biography of Eve Babitz, who started out as an icon on art and sex in the 1960s and went on to design album covers and write seven books.

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