MI 6 British Secret Intelligence Service operations, 1909-45 Tapa dura - 1983

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Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983-10-27. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.7979 in x 23.1824 in x 16.6873 in.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Very Good. 150 x 230mm. Hardback. 1983. 266 pages. Previous owner's name written on ffep.<br>Includes ind ex. .

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, first edition, 1983. Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm,. xvi, 266 pp, plus 16 pp of plates. A densely-detailed history of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, from its modest beginning in 1909 to the end of the Second World War. This was the first authoritative account of MI6's operations and structure. The main part of the book concerns the service's operations during World War II and includes some remarkable successes - and failures: how MI6 financed a glamorous confidante of the head of the German secret service; how a suspected French traitor was murdered by mistake; how Franco's military advisers were bribed to keep Spain out of the war; how the Swedish secret police were blackmailed into helping the British war effort; how a sabotage operation in neutral Tangiers enabled the Allied landings in North Africa to proceed undetected; and how Britain's generals ignored the first ULTRA decrypts because M16 said that the information had come from 'a… Leer más

Random House. As New in As New dust jacket. 1983. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0297782908 . Hardcover in dust jacket. Black cloth spine on black boards, clean and sharp. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket sharp and bright. Book firm in binding, 266 pages include Index, b&w photographs. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

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