Churchill and the Secret Service
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ISBN: 0879518502 / Publisher: Abrams Press, January 1998
Spans Winston Churchill's career, focusing on the war years and modern-day intelligence
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Traces Winston Churchill's involvement with the espionage community from 1895 until after WWII. The author looks at Churchill's involvement with secret intelligence as a young reporter, his work with SIGINT during WWI, the growing intelligence world between the wars, his groundbreaking work as wartime Prime Minister, and the alliance that he created with Roosevelt that laid the foundations for the modern world of superpower intelligence operations. The book is full of anecdotal accounts about the inner workings of MI5 and other branches of the British intelligence network. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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