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
This comprehensive volume on
signals intelligence includes wireless interception,
electronic intelligence, cryptanalysis, and more. It
features around 300 entries on topics ranging from the
Falkland Islands to the only British MI5 officer during WWI
who spoke Japanese. The author covers all periods from the
Boer War up to the latest conflicts, with an article on
social media. The dictionary also addresses acronyms, and
includes a chronology, several appendixes, and an extensive
bibliography. Also provided are links to a number of
relevant websites, including some from Russia, Scandinavia,
and other parts of Europe.
The SAS, MI6 and the war Whitehall
nearly lost. The Falklands conflict was the first time the
Royal Navy had been engaged by an enemy since 1945. It was a
test of the world's latest air and defence systems and a
unique opportunity to push competing fighters to their
limits. This book focuses on Operation Corporate, the task
force assigned to retake the Falklands, and on the
clandestine efforts to deny General Galtieri the one weapon
that could have turned Corporate into a humiliating defeat
for Britain, the French manufactured Exocet missile.
This copy has been signed by the author.
Very good.
Unread but slight browning to top page edges due to storage
- 266pp, 16 b/w photos, facsimille documents
The SAS, MI6 and the war Whitehall nearly lost. A Spanish
language edition of intelligence specialist Nigel West's
volume on the secret war for the Falklands, or the Malvinas
as the islands are known in the Spanish speaking world.
Scarce and collectible.
Like new
in card cover - 259pp, 16 b/w photos, facsimille documents
Peace
keeping in Bosnia's Civil War, 1992-1993. A young cavalry
lieutenant's moving and shocking account of front line
service in the cauldron of war. Fresh from Germany he and
his men found themselves in a highly political and lethally
dangerous civil war. They witnessed appalling atrocities and
human tragedy on a giant scale. The foreword by Martin Bell,
OBE, describes it as "earning its place among the impartial
narratives of the Bosnian War"
