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Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain's Intelligence Services

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As John le Carr???'s fictional intelligence men admit, it was the case histories - constructed narratives serving shifting agendas - that shaped the British intelligence machine, rather than their personal experience of secret operations. Secret History demonstrates that a critical scrutiny of internal "after action" assessments of intelligence prepared by British officials provides an invaluable and original perspective on the emergence of British intelligence culture over a period stretching from the First World War to ...

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Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain's Intelligence Services 2020, McGill-Queen's University Press

ISBN-13: 9780228000822

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Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain's Intelligence Services 2020, McGill-Queen's University Press

ISBN-13: 9780228000815

Hardcover