[PDF] Defend The Realm eBook

Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1093 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0718197445

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'Sensationally good ... A riveting story, the real-life spooks and spies far more compelling than anything you will see on the screen ... history doesn't come more fascinating than this' Evening Standard For over 100 years, the agents of MI5 have defended Britain against enemy subversion. Their work has remained shrouded in secrecy - until now. This first-ever authorized account reveals the British Security Service as never before: its inner workings, its clandestine operations, its failures and its triumphs. 'Definitive and fascinating ... whether reporting on Hitler in the 1930s, the Double-Cross System of the second world war, Zionist terrorism, the atom spies, the Cambridge spies, the so-called Wilson plot or the 1988 shooting of the IRA bombers in Gibraltar, this book is essential reading' Alan Judd, Spectator 'The British Secret Service has opened its archives - and even 'insiders' may be in for a surprise ... magisterial ... extremely readable' Oleg Gordievsky, The Times 'Compelling ... a feast' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'A superb account ... He has captured every important detail of the Service ... unlikely to be surpassed for another 100 years' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph

Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307272915

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For over 100 years, the agents of MI5 have defended Britain against enemy subversion. Their work has remained shrouded in secrecy—until now. This first-ever authorized account reveals the British Security Service as never before: its inner workings, its clandestine operations, its failures and its triumphs.

Author : Nick Huckerby
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1407166700

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Alfie thought he knew his destiny. He didn't know the half of it. Fourteen year old heir to the throne, Alfie, didn't expect to be King so soon. He DEFINITELY did not expect to be ... DEFENDER OF THE REALM. A legendary superhero, fighting a secret, centuries-long, battle to protect the nation from monsters and super-villains.

Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 1155 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0143178911

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To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives for the first time to an independent historian. In The Defence of the Realm, Christopher Andrew reveals the precise role of the Security Service in 20th-century British history, from its founding by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909 through two world wars and up to and including its present roles in counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. Full of dry humour, this fascinating and thoroughly engaging book describes how MI5 has been managed, its relationship with the government, and where it has triumphed and where it has failed. Readers will also discover the identities of previously unknown enemies of Britain and the West, whose activities the Service has brought to light. Above all, they'll understand the distinctive ethos and place of this hitherto extremely secretive organization within the U.K.

Author : Fotini Kondyli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108845495

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Argues that Late Byzantine rural communities were resilient and able to transform their socioeconomic strategies in the face of crisis.

Author : Dan Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 100026274X

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This book, first published in 1980, is a close analysis of Britain’s defence policy in the latter years of the Cold War. It examines the factors that limited the choices available to the governments of the day, including technological advances, costs, changes in the balance of power, strategic thinking in both West and East, and the consequent implications for the development of forces and arms.

Author : Chuck Black
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1601425031

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Drew is caught in a world of light - just inches away from the dark What if...there was a world beyond our vision, a world just fingertips beyond our reach? What if...our world wasn’t beyond their influence? Tragedy and heartache seem to be waiting for Drew Carter at every turn, but college offers Drew a chance to start over—until an accident during a physics experiment leaves him blind and his genius friend, Benjamin Berg, missing. As his sight miraculously returns, Drew discovers that the accident has heightened his neuron activity, giving him skills and sight beyond the normal man. When he begins to observe fierce invaders that no one else can see, he questions his own sanity, and so do others. But is he insane or do the invaders truly exist? With help from Sydney Carlyle, a mysterious and elusive girl who offers encouragement through her faith, Drew searches for his missing friend, Ben, who seems to hold the key to unlocking this mystery. As the dark invaders close in, will he find the truth in time?

Author : Justin O'Brien
Publisher : Gill
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Centred on the murder of Pat Finucane, an explosive and important expose which charts the extent and consequence of the British state s involvement in Northern Ireland s dirty war, from the start of the Troubles and through the 1980s and 90s. "

Author : Keith Jeffery
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0747591830

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The first - and only - history of the Secret Intelligence Service, written with full and unrestricted access to the closed archives of the Service for the period 1909-1949.

Author : Christopher Peacocke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199270724

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The Realm of Reason is a manifesto for a new rationalism in philosophy. Christopher Peacocke develops an original theory of what makes a thinker entitled to form a given belief. The theory is articulated in three principles of rationalism, which together imply that all entitlement has an element that is independent of experience. Peacocke elaborates this rationalism in detail for the classical issues of perceptual knowledge, induction, and the status of moral thought. Hisnew generalized approach to epistemology has applications throughout philosophy, and it will interest all concerned with knowledge, truth, and rationality.