The author traces GCHQ's (Goverment Communications Headquarters) origins back to the early days of wireless and gives a detailed account of it's development. From the moment Marconi succeeded in transmitting a radio signal across the Channel, Britain has been engaged in a secret war first against the Kaiser, then Hitler and the Soviet Union. This book describes the disciplines, including direction finding, interception, traffic analysis and codebreaking. Also recorded is the work of lesser known unite such as Special Wireless Groups and the top secret Radio Security Service.

1986, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, , 0297787179,< R-03>,294pp, 27 b/w photos, pages browning. marks on edges. otherwise good in slightly chipped d/w, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 8213-02..............................£6.00 

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.

2012, Scarecrow Press, , 9780810871878,< R-03>,340pp, Mint - like new in decorated boards, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 23320-01..............................£60.00 

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.

2005, Routledge, , 0415351456,< R-03>,324pp,158pp of transcipts of radio traffic, like new in dw, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 37804-02..............................£35.00 

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.

2005, Routledge, , 9780415649926,< R-03>,324pp,158pp of transcipts of radio traffic, like new in card cover, , CARD
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 37804-01..............................£25.00 

West looks at the early days, details the Abwehr's preparations for war and MI5's role in WWII. He also describes the circumstances in which sixteen enemy agents who were, in the course of the war, detected and shot or hanged. other chapters include the famous "Double Cross System", the deceptions practiced on the German High Command, and organisational charts showing the wartime security service.

1981, The Bodley Head, , 0370303245,< R-03>,365pp, illustrations, Orange boards, faded spine. text tight and unmarked., ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 15686-01..............................£10.00 

Nigel West's account of the plots, the molehunts and the cover-ups of the high-level penetration of MI5 by a Soviet mole. The blame first fell to Kim Philby, but it became apparent that it could not have been him. Then the finger was pointed at Sir Roger Hollis. Was he really a spy? What was Lord Rothschild's involvement? West was only able to tell the story after the deaths of two crucial witnesses.

1987, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, , 0297791508,< R-03>,208pp, 16 photos, index, fine in dw, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 28108-01..............................£12.00 

The history of the Special Operations Executive, Britain's WWII undercover subversive and sabotage organization. The author considers why so many of SOE's agents were caught, why the Communist partisan organizations in the Balkans were aided, the heroism of individual agents and the underlying tragedy of those lost, plus the actions of para-military units dropped behind the lines immediately after the D-Day invasion. Ihe book is an anlysis of the structure and performance of the organisation. This copy has an inscription dated 17 v 1992 by the author which reads 'To Nigel West's mother who should bear full responsibility'

1992, Hodder & Stoughton, , 0340518707,< R-03>,305pp, maps, charts, good/fair in slightly sunned d/w, inscribed by author., ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 2431-01..............................£10.00 

This lively account of Soviet foreign intelligence activity in Great Britain during the Cold War is based on documents newly released from the KGB archives, their "crown jewels," as the KGB unofficially called its most valuable assets. Written by Nigel West and former KGB lieutenant colonel, Oleg Tsarev, The Crown Jewels provides much new information on the activities of the well-known Soviet spies, including Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt, as well as many lesser-known spymasters and recruiters, reproducing many of their reports for the first time. The book adds unsuspected dimensions to the famous Cambridge ring (including details of Burgess's offer to murder his fellow conspirator Goronwy Rees). It also reveals a completely unknown Soviet network based in London and headed by a named Daily Herald journalist, describes the huge scale of Soviet penetration of the British Foreign Office from 1927 to 1951, explores a previously unknown spy ring in Oxford, and tells about the key role played by Blunt in supervising post-war Soviet espionage activities in London.

1998, Harper Collins, , 0002558688,< R-03>,366pp, 44 b/w photos, fine in d/w, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 20577-01..............................£10.00 

This lively account of Soviet foreign intelligence activity in Great Britain during the Cold War is based on documents newly released from the KGB archives, their "crown jewels," as the KGB unofficially called its most valuable assets. Written by Nigel West and former KGB lieutenant colonel, Oleg Tsarev, The Crown Jewels provides much new information on the activities of the well-known Soviet spies, including Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt, as well as many lesser-known spymasters and recruiters, reproducing many of their reports for the first time. The book adds unsuspected dimensions to the famous Cambridge ring (including details of Burgess's offer to murder his fellow conspirator Goronwy Rees). It also reveals a completely unknown Soviet network based in London and headed by a named Daily Herald journalist, describes the huge scale of Soviet penetration of the British Foreign Office from 1927 to 1951, explores a previously unknown spy ring in Oxford, and tells about the key role played by Blunt in supervising post-war Soviet espionage activities in London.

1999, Yale University Press, , 0300078064,< R-03>,366pp, 44 b/w photos, like new in d/w, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 25077-01..............................£14.00 

Unread. Researched and compiled by Nigel West, one of the UKs foremost security experts, this is the story of the clandestine careers of some of Britain's most secret servants including such WWI luminaries as Compton Mackenzie, A. E. W. Mason and Somerset Maugham. Also looks at anti-Bolshevik operations during and after the Russian Civil War by Paul Dukes, Dick Ellis, Augustus Agar and Sidney Reilly, WWII sabotage and deception operations by Julian Amery, Leonard Burt, Dennis Wheatley and Stephen Watts. The author also discusses the activities of Overseas Agents such as Graham Greene, Malcolm Muggeridge, Dusko Popov ('Tricycle'), Juan Pujol ('Garbo'), and Eddie Chapman ('Zigzag'), and goes on to cover the post war SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) and MI5 (The Security Service) with accounts of more than 100 individuals and their activities.

1993, Faber & Faber, , 057116854X,< R-03>,viii + 610pp, good in d/w - foxing on top edge, page edges browning, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 26650-01..............................£10.00