MASK: MI5's PENETRATION OF
THE
COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN
by Nigel West
An account of the British
Security Service's dramatic interception of secret signals
to Moscow from a hidden base in London uncovered the true
extent of Soviet espionage in Britain. Intelligence expert
Nigel West reveals how MASK, the codename for one of the
most secretive sources ever run by British intelligence,
enabled the British Government to monitor the activities of
the Communist Party of Great Britain and track wireless
traffic between the Soviet Union and its Comintern
representatives abroad during the mid 1930's. The Government
Code and Cipher School was one of the most secret branches
of Whitehall, under the command of the Secret Intelligence
Service, and used its covert intercept station in South
London to make vital advances in the intelligence war. This
gripping account exposes for the first time how the
Communist Party of Great Britain was infiltrated and details
the actual contents of its communications with the Soviet
Union.
Like new in
d/w - 324pp,158pp of transcipts of radio traffic
A comprehensive photo-history of
the destruction of Army Group Centre, June - July, 1944. The
German defeat set the scene for the Red Army's determined
drive into Poland to the Vistula River barrier. The
annihilation of Army Group Centre was, without doubt, the
greatest defeat inflicted on the German Army during World
War II.
As new in plastic sleeved boards -
Large format, 126pp, c300 b/w photos
A History of thirty four
battalions of the Regiment, essentially the fifteen front
line battalions. The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1st
Foot, is a Lowland regiment, the oldest regiment of the line
in the British Army, and as if to emphasize that fact its
nickname is "Pontius Pilate’s Bodyguard". In 1914 it
consisted of two regular, one reserve and seven territorial
battalions. The book is arranged on a chronological basis
with each chapter covering a specific period of time,
whether on the Western Front any other front where the
Regiment fought.
Facsimile reprint of 1925 edition.
Two volume set
New in card cover
- Vol I xxxii +434pp. Vol II xii + 391p
The Experiences of an officer of the 16th Light Dragoons
in the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns of the Napoleonic
Wars. In the first chapter the author and his 16th Light
Dragoons rashly charge into the rearguard of the French Army
and he is shot and bayoneted. In 1810 Tomkinson is once
again in Spain fighting the French. This book is a fine
example of a personal account filled with detail combined
with a clear and informative narrative of the campaigns in
which the writer was engaged. Originally published in 1894
as 'Diary of a Cavalry Officer
The
official combat history of the U.S.
Seventh Air Force in the Pacific from Pearl Harbour to the
end of the Second World War. The story is told from the
point of view of the fighting men themselves, often in their
own words, with realistic vigor and with the lively sense of
humor that made it possible to achieve victory against
Japan. Original 1946 publication.
Good in blue boards - 403pp, c50
b/w photos, endpaper maps
