Churchill And Secret Service

Churchill And Secret Service

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Publisher's Synopsis

Winston Churchill believed passionately in the value of secret intelligence - in times of war, of course, but also in times of peace. As a young correspondent and soldier in Cuba and South Africa, he experienced its worth first hand. As wartime Prime Minister, he built a centralised intelligence community, responded daily to raw 'Ultra' reports, created the Special Operations Executive to work behind enemy lines and with Roosevelt built the intelligence alliance that endures to this day.
With absorbing detail about the secret world of agents and double agents rivalling le Carre, this groundbreaking work traces Churchill's connections from his days as a member of the Cabinet that established the Secret Service to the war years, when his extensive network provided him with superior information. Both a riveting account of the origins and inner workings of modern intelligence agencies and a study of Churchill and his role in their development, CHURCHILL AND SECRET SERVICE is a major contribution to the study of modern and military history and a crucial missing key to understanding Churchill himself.

About the Publisher

Abacus

Abacus

Abacus is home to some of the world?s most renowned authors, including Donna Tartt, Gore Vidal, Jane Gardam, Primo Levi and Beryl Bainbridge. In 2013, we celebrated our 40th anniversary with the reissue of 18 of our classic books ? a wonderfully diverse collection ranging from Douglas Coupland?s Generation X and Iain Banks? The Wasp Factory, to Tom Holland?s Rubicon and Alexander McCall Smith?s The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. Originally a non-fiction list with something of an ecological flavour, Abacus has evolved over the years to become one of the most renowned homes for quality fiction and non-fiction, and one with a particularly strong tradition in bestselling memoirs, notably Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom and historian William Woodruff's double No. 1 bestsellers The Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End. Our non-fiction publishing grew further with the publication of books by some of the most influential writers in their fields, such as Tim Harford, Gillian Tett and Tom Holland, and our fiction publishing continues to go from strength to strength, driven by a new generation of novelists like Kevin Maher and A. D. Miller, who sit alongside global bestsellers like Anita Shreve and Candace Bushnell.

Book information

ISBN: 9780349121079
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Abacus
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 480
Weight: -1g
Height: 198mm
Width: 126mm