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Defend the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5
Category: History: Europe: England
Author: Christopher Andrew
Copyright/published Year: 2009 by Knopf
ISBN: 0307263630
Binding: CLOTH
An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its
foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first
time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book
reveals the precise role of the Security Service in
twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain
Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars,
up to and including its present roles in counterespionage and
counterterrorism. The book describes how MI5 has been managed,
what its relationship has been with government, where it has
triumphed, and where it has failed. In all of this no restriction
has been placed on the judgments made by the author.
Defend the Realm also adds significantly to our knowledge
of many celebrated events and notorious individuals and
definitively lays to rest a number of persistent myths. Above
all, it shows the place of this previously extremely secretive
organization within the United Kingdom. Few books could make such
an immediate and extraordinary increase to our understanding of
British history over the past century.
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