description: This unique archive of propaganda was discovered by chance and provides a remarkable insight into a highly successful and sophisticated operation directed at the home front in 1917. With previously unseen and unpublished contributions from writers such as A A Milne, Cecil Street, H B C Pollard, and other notable literary men of the day, the archive is both exciting and moving. It tells stories of individual acts of supreme heroism, and details the daily life of soldiers in the front line trenches as experienced by one who fought there.The narrative includes original MI 7b material written between 1917-18 and tells the story of Lt James Lloyd who was shot and wounded in the first Battle of the Somme, recruited into Military Intelligence and saved his archive from the Government's destruction of all MI 7b's official papers shortly after the Armistice.The secret operation undertaken by MI 7b took place in the context of a war that threatened the very existence of Great Britain and the Empire; for Parliament and the Crown, the stakes could not have been higher. Violent insurrection on city streets at home and abroad threatened social revolution, and the overturn of the monarchy and state, but in the world of spies and secret intelligence, a new dawn was breaking. This story tells, for the first time, the complete truth of that operation and includes original text and photographs.
language: English
title: M.I. 7b - the discovery of a lost propaganda archive from the Great War