Empire of secrets
Subtitle: British intelligence, the cold war, and the twilight of empire
By: Calder Walton
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9781468307153
Subjects: Intelligence service; Colonies; Cold War; History
Description: Discusses how Great Britain and the intelligence service MI5 played a crucial but virtually unseen role throughout the Cold War, revealing violent counterinsurgencies, urban warfare campaigns, and other sobering acts committed in an effort to destabilize Communist threats.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-393) and index.
Table of contents: title: Victoria's secrets: British Intelligence and Empire before the Second World War; title: Strategic deception: British Intelligence, Special Operations and Empire in the Second World War; title: 'The Red Light is Definitely Showing': M15, the British Mandate of Palestine and Zionist terrorism; title: The Empire strikes back: the British Secret State and Imperial Security in the early Cold War; title: Jungle warfare: British Intelligence and the Malayan emergency; title: British Intelligence and the setting sun on Britain's African Empire; title: British Intelligence, covert action and counter-insurgency in the Middle East; title: Conclusion: British Intelligence: the last penumbra of Empire.