A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — Bristol: University of Bristol, 2013. — 42 p. “Set Europe ablaze” was the order given by Churchill in July 1940 that indicated the birth of Britain’s secret organisation, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Designed to...
London: Virgin Books, 1996. — 224 p. Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) is the world's premier elite fighting force. The regiment is home to the most highly trained and deadly soldiers ever to do battle and their reputation is that of ruthless efficiency. Whether operating deep behind enemy lines in a desert or jungle conflict, or tackling terrorism head on, the...
London: Junction Books Ltd, 1983. — 284 p. — ISBN: 0-86322-035-5, ISBN: 0-86245-113-2 "It is a tale of terror, murder, bribery, cheating, lying and torture, wich have been practised in varying combinations from Malaya in the early 1950's to Ireland in the 1980's." lntroduction Intelligence and Covert Action Decolonisation and the Cold War Covert Operations in the Middle East...
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in National Security Affairs. — Monterey: Naval Postgraduate School, 1999. — 166 p. The British Army was sent to Northern Ireland in 1969 as a peacekeeping force between the Catholic and Protestant communities Against a backdrop of sectarian violence, emerging paramilitary organizations began...
Washington: War Depertament, 1942. — 138 p. Since the decisive outcome of the campaigns in France and the Low Countries left the British Army considerably inferior to the German Army in strength and mat6riel, the British had no choice but to avoid full-scale fighting until new power could be marshalled. Accordingly, shortly after the withdrawal from Dunkirk in June 1940, the...
Second Printing. — Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002. — 392 p. — ISBN: 0-911333-91-6 The National Archives and Records Administration serves many users of this nation's rich documentary heritage, and it supports a wide range of federal and public programs designed to reach a variety of audiences. The National Archives has maintained a special...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1951. — 234 p. Was Canaris - Hitler’s Chief of Intelligence, who spent five years in Hitler’s Germany as a British foreign correspondent, was probably the first man outside the British Secret Service to discover the identity and aims of Admiral Canaris, Chief of the German Intelligence Service and the most persistent secret enemy of Hitler, who was...
Sirlliwirk & Jeckson, 1998. — 124 p. — ISBN 0 243 06 26 2. To join the British Special Air Service, soldiers must have a minimum of three years' service with the armed forces, and have a good grounding in basic military skills. Recruits are normally aged in their early to mid-twenties, yet the regiment will accept soldiers much older. The qualities needed for SAS selection are...
A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of History. — Norwich: University of East Anglia, 2015. — 306 p. During the Second World War, the British Government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating ‘all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy...
Digital edition first. — London: Amber Books Ltd, 2012. — 269 p. — ISBN: 978 1 909160 38 5 When we first opened this book we had high hopes due to the large amount of well illustrated pictures that appeared to show how to perform the various tasks of sniping. Unfortunately as we began to read the book we discovered that the book was very superficial and showed only the basic...
Third edition. — London: Hutchinson, 1920. — 320 p. There is something so mysterious and thrilling about Secret Service that the subject must inevitably appeal to the public, and especially to the more imaginative section of it. Secret Service is the theme of Mr. Nicholas Everitt's book, in which he describes the exciting adventures that he met with whilst in quest of...
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — Montreal, McGill University, Department of History, 1991. — 508 p. On the morning of Sunday 3 December 1944, a procession of Greek Communists, Socialists, Republicans and antirnonarchists advanced to Constitution Square, the center...
Nouveau monde Éditions, 2017. — 490 p. Le MI-5 et le MI-6 comptent parmi les plus anciens des services secrets modernes; seuls les espions du Vatican et ceux du service secret de renseignement chinois ont une plus longue histoire. Bien entendu, ils gardent tous leurs secrets mais il y en a désormais qui, sans pour autant révéler d'informations dangereuses pour la sécurité...
Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College, 2009. — 65 p. The United States Army's study of counterinsurgency operations is limited, with few notable exceptions, to those that occurred in the Third World from 1950 to the present day. Few American officers, NCOs or soldiers are familiar with other historical...
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 641 p. This book is an abridgement of the official history, British Intelligence in the Second World War, which was published by HMSO in five volumes between 1979 and 1990. Although the emphasis was placed in those volumes on the use made of intelligence, considerable space was devoted to technical and administrative matters, notably...
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1979. — 472 p. In carrying out our brief, which was to produce an account of the influence of British intelligence on strategy and operations during the Second World War, we have encountered two problems of presentation. The first was how to furnish the strategic and operational context without retelling the history of the war in all its...
New York: Cambrige University Press, 1988. — 408 p. During World War II, signals intelligence was always and increasingly the most valuable of Great Britain's intelligence sources. The Poles first solved the German Enigma cipher machine. Britain, which first solved the general Luftwaffe key in May 1940 and a naval Enigma key in June 1941, exploited these and other keys, though...
New York: Cambrige University Press, 1988. — 617 p. During World War II, signals intelligence was always and increasingly the most valuable of Great Britain's intelligence sources. The Poles first solved the German Enigma cipher machine. Britain, which first solved the general Luftwaffe key in May 1940 and a naval Enigma key in June 1941, exploited these and other keys, though...
New York: Cambrige University Press, 1988. — 212 p. During World War II, signals intelligence was always and increasingly the most valuable of Great Britain's intelligence sources. The Poles first solved the German Enigma cipher machine. Britain, which first solved the general Luftwaffe key in May 1940 and a naval Enigma key in June 1941, exploited these and other keys, though...
New York: Cambrige University Press, 1988. — 408 p. The first three volumes of the series dealt with the influence of intelligence on strategy and operations. Volume 4 analyzes the contribution made by intelligence to the work of the authorities responsible for countering the threats of subversion, sabotage and intelligence gathering by the enemy in the United Kingdom and British...
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994. — 282 p. For Modin was the professional KGB officer who ran the five Cambridge spies: Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Blunt, Cairncross. They were Modin's agents, and thus'Friends', in the special sense implied by the spy trade jargon with which John le Carre has made us so familiar. Modin was initially the Five's deskman in Moscow Centre during...
Studies in Intelligence Vol. 54, No. 2, June 2010. — 23 p. In the decade before the First World War, the British spy thriller was a cultural phenomenon drawing large and expectant readerships across all classes and catapulting its authors to prominence as spokesmen for then widely prevalent concerns about imperial strength, national power, and foreign espionage. Three hundred is a...
Undergraduate Honors Theses. — Colorado, University of Colorado, 2015. — 105 p. World War II featured monumental battles, such as the Normandy invasions, the Battle of the Bulge, Stalingrad, Iwo Jima, El Alamein, and Kursk. While historical scholarship of the World War II generally focuses on the war’s grand military engagements, it is imperative to note that Allied and Axis...
USA Today 26 October 1982. — 1 p. Document number CIA-RDP90-00806R000200710035-3 declassified and released through the CIA's CREST database. Previously available only on four computers located outside of Washington D.C., the Agency was successfully pressured into putting the files online as a result of a MuckRock lawsuit and the efforts of Emma Best. The metadata was collected by...
The Thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — The University of Leeds, 2011. — 296 p. This thesis is an evaluation of the wartime experiences of the female agents of SOE F section and their post war representation through books, films and post-war publicity. The first section looks at selection and training and whether women...
Article Submission to the Journal of Military History. — p. 16. My god, that sonofabitch knew everything. "Боже мой, этот сукин сын знал все!" Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State. On the Friday evening of May 25, 1951,British Foreign Office Official Donald Maclean and a man he had introduced to his wife as “Roger Stiles” left the Macleans’Tatsfield home. Maclean had...
Westintel Research Ltd, 1988. — 216 p. The British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) has been in continuous existence, under various guises, since its inception on 1 October 1909. Originally it was designated the Foreign Section of the Secret Service Bureau, but during the First World War'it adopted the military intelligence cover of MI 1. Thereafter it became known as MI6, and...
Пер. с англ. С.Т. Логинова.— М.: Прогресс, 1981. — 334 с. Редакция и предисловие к русскому изданию контр-адмирала Б.Д. Яшина. Предлагаемая вниманию читателей книга, написанная английским автором и опубликованная в Лондоне в 1977 г., дополняет широкий и известный в СССР перечень изданных на Западе и частично переведенных на русский язык книг, относящихся к истории Второй мировой...