Churchill's Spy Files: MI5's Top-Secret Wartime Reports - Hardcover

West, Nigel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750985496 ISBN 13: 9780750985499

Publisher: The History Press, 2018

Synopsis

World War II saw the role of espionage, secret agents, and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict quite unlike any that had gone before it. At this time, no one in government was really aware of what MI5 and its brethren did. But with Churchill at the country’s helm, it was decided to let him in on the secret, providing him with a weekly report of the spy activities—so classified that he was handed each report personally and copies were never allowed to be made, nor was he allowed to keep hold of them. Even now, the documents only exist as physical copies deep in the archives, many pages annotated by hand by "W.S.C." himself. This book unravels the tales of hitherto unknown spy missions, using new research to paint a fresh picture of the worldwide intelligence scene of WWII.

About this title

About the Author:

Nigel West has spent the past 14 years at the Counterintelligence Center in Washington, D.C., and recently uncovered a collection of undigitized, recently declassified documents that led to this book.

About this edition

• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0750985496
• ISBN 13: 9780750985499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464