BRITISH SECURITY
COORDINATION: THE SECRET HISTORY OF
BRITISH INTELLIGENCE IN THE AMERICAS, 1940-45
In 1940, Winston
Churchill dispatched a Canadian industrialist to New York
with an extraordinary mission: to set up a secret spy
network across both North and South America to cripple and
confound Nazi propaganda and to fan the flames of pro-war
sentiment. Sir William Stephenson (of A Man Called Intrepid
fame) set up shop in Rockefeller Center to build a vast
intelligence network ~ British Security Coordination (BSC),
the full story of which is now told for the first time.
Stephenson's mission came at a time when the United States
was still deeply influenced by isolationism. Stephenson's
people soon launched an astonishing bagful of dirty tricks ~
they unmasked Axis spies, planted propaganda in American
newspapers, and slipped beautiful female spies into the
Vichy and Italian embassies in Washington. Stephenson's
agents also infiltrated American labor unions, harassed
their political enemies in Congress, and fed British
propaganda and false rumors to such prominent journalists as
Walter Winchel and Drew Pearson who were happy to give them
wide circulation. Much of this took place before the U.S.
had entered the war, when the country was still neutral
territory and British spying was illegal. But President
Roosevelt winked at the law, and FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover
collaborated as well, though reluctantly. After Pearl Harbor
Stephenson helped William J. Donovan set up the OSS which
eventually became the foundation for the CIA. In 1945,
Stephenson ordered three of his subordinates, Gilbert
Highet, Tom Hill and Roald Dahl, to prepare an official
report of the network's activities, of which fewer than ten
copies survived all these years in utmost secrecy. This is
the first time it has been made public in its complete and
unexpurgated form.
With a foreword by Nigel West.
Like new in
d/w, unread, top page edges slightly spotted - 536pp
Slovenia and Croatia, 1991-95. Following the death of
the Yugoslavian strongman President Tito in 1980, the
semi-autonomous republics and provinces that he had welded
into a nation in 1945 moved inexorably towards separation.
After a deceptively clean break for independence by Slovenia
in 1991, the world watched a series of wars rip through this
modern European state. In this first of two volumes, experts
on the Balkan region give an unprecedentedly clear, concise
explanation of the Slovene, Croatian and Krajina-Serb armies
of these campaigns, illustrated with rare photos and colour
uniform plates by Darko Pavlovic.
New in card cover
- 64pp, 8 colour plates, c50 colour & b/w photos &
illustrations
Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia, 1992-2001. For ten years
from 1991, the world watched in horror as a series of bloody
wars ripped a modern European state apart, and the
intolerable spectacle eventually forced international
intervention. Illustrated with rare photos and colour
uniform plates by Darko Pavlovic, this second of two volumes
by experts on the Balkan region offers a concise breakdown
of the indigenous forces involved in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Kosovo and Macedonia.
New in card cover
- 64pp, 8 colour plates, c50 colour & b/w photos &
illustrations
This impressive publication details
the insignia and dress distinctions of the six cavalry
regiments raised for hostilities only during World War II.
These regiments were the 22nd Dragoons, 23rd Hussars, 24th
Lancers, 25th Dragoons, 26th Hussars and 27th Lancers. The
book includes 25 A4 colour plates of insignia (including
trial patterns), uniform items, plus numerous black and
white images showing various items of insignia being worn.
The orders by which these regiments were raised and
subsequently disbanded are also included together with
potted histories of each, along with historical notes about
their 18th and 19th century predecessors.
New in card cover
- A4 format, 173pp, 25 colour plates, numerous colour
& b/w photos & illustrations
The story of the seven regiments which compose the
Household Division, commonly referred to as the Guards, has
been often told. To the world at large the image of the
Guards has been coloured by their ceremonial duties
dedicated to the protection of the sovereign - whether at
Buckingham Palace and Horse Guards, or at great national
occasions such as The Queen's Birthday Parade, which the
public know as the Trooping of the Colour. Yet in the 21st
century the Guards have never been more active and engaged
in their role as highly effective operational military
units, whether in Bosnia, Iraq or Afghanistan. Excellence in
Action is a richly-illustrated publication which offers a
wide-ranging colour portrait of the Household Division,
reflecting the tradition of excellence of the individual
formations in the context of today's role as an elite
fighting force.
The book includes a preface by Her
Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, II.
New in d/w -
Large format, 208pp, c600 colour photos & illustrations
