Secret Service - the making of the British Intelligence Community

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By Christopher Andrew 
Published by Sceptre UK 1987
Out of print
Paperback – very good reading copy

Chronicles the history of the British secret service, probing its influence on foreign and military policy and profiling its key personalities.

"Excellent contribution to a field of research where every obstacle is placed in the path of the historian by officaldom... The impact of secret intelligence on history has been enormous and no true account can be written without some knowledge of it' Chapman Pincher, historian & author

"An astonishingly full, original and authoritative history .. his book sparkles with sardonic wit..No-one who reads his extraordinary revelations will be ale to regard the art of spying in the same light again" Piers Brendon, the Mail on Sunday

"Thus book is a modle of clarity and scholarly objectivity, and when it isn't serious it is a comical tale as well ... One of the most useful aand as well as one of the funniest books I have rewad in years" Washington Times