|
|
| book details |
The Black Door Lib/E: Spies, Secret Intelligence, and British Prime Ministers
By (author) Richard J Aldrich, By (author) Rory Cormac, Read by Tom Clegg
|
|
| on special |
normal price: R 2 334.95
Price: R 2 218.95
|
| book description |
Intelligence can do a prime minister's dirty work. For more than a century, secret wars have been waged directly from Number 10. They have staved off conflict, defeats, and British decline through fancy footwork, often deceiving friend and foe alike. Yet as the birth of the modern British secret service in 1909, prime ministers were strangers to the secret world--sometimes with disastrous consequences. During the Second World War, Winston Churchill oversaw a remarkable revolution in the exploitation of intelligence, bringing it into the center of government. Churchill's wartime regime also formed a school of intelligence for future prime ministers, and its secret legacy has endured. Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and David Cameron all became great enthusiasts for spies and special forces. Although Britain's political leaders have often feigned ignorance about what one prime minister called this ""strange underworld,"" some of the most daring and controversial intelligence operations can be traced straight back to Number 10
| product details |
Normally shipped |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 3 Mar 2020
Language |
Format | CD-Audio
Pages | 0
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-0083-4578-5
Readership Age |
BISAC | political science / political freedom & security / general
| other options |
|
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
|
| specials |
|
|
Mason Coile
Paperback / softback
224 pages
was: R 520.95
now: R 468.95
|
A terrifying locked-room mystery set in a remote outpost on Mars.
|
An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?
|
|
|
|
|
|
