Secrets from Whitehall and Downing Street
Author : F. D. Volkov
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt
Author : Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Publisher :
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Book Description
The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers
Author : Richard Aldrich
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0007555458
Book Description
The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith’s Secret Service Bureau to Cameron’s National Security Council.
Secret Classrooms
Author : Geoffrey Elliott
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 057130950X
Book Description
'Here is a vivacious account of how in the 1950s, under Eden and Lloyd at the Foreign Office, some 5,000 young men doing national service were quietly siphoned off from their units, secluded in Cornwall and Fifeshire, or, more boldly, next door to the Guards depot at Coulsdon in Surrey, and put through crash courses in Russian till they could speak it fluently ...' M. R. D. Foot, Spectator Lambasted by the Soviets as a 'spy school', the Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL) was a major Cold War initiative, which pushed 5000 young National Servicemen through intensive training as Russian translators and interpreters, primarily to meet the needs of Britain's signals intelligence operations. Its pupils included a remarkable cross-section of talented young men who went on to a diversity of glittering careers: professors of Russian, Chinese, ancient philosophy, economics; the historian Sir Martin Gilbert; authors such as Alan Bennett, Dennis Potter and Michael Frayn; screenwriter Jack Rosenthal; stage director Sir Peter Hall; and churchmen ranging from a bishop to a displaced Carmelite friar. Geoffrey Elliot and Harold Shukman, both of whom emerged from JSSL as interpreters, have drawn on many personal recollections and interviews with fellow students, as well as once highly classified documents in the Public Record Office, in order to reveal this fascinating story for the first time. 'A highly entertaining read ... No one interested in late 20th century theatre or literature can afford to ignore this book.' Spectator 'Elliott and Shukman write with style and wit ... They record something more than a byway in the history of the cold war, a true contribution to British history.' Michael Bourdeaux, Times Higher Education Supplement 'An engaging, quirky account of this strange offshoot of the Cold War ... a kind of Virgin Soldiers for clever clogs.' Michael Leapman, Independent
London's Sinful Secret
Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1429919566
Book Description
Georgian London evokes images of elegant mannered buildings, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife and houses of ill repute widespread in a sex trade that employed thousands. In London's Sinful Secret, Dan Cruickshank explores this erotic Georgian underworld and shows how it affected almost every aspect of life and culture in the city from the smart new streets that sprang up in Marylebone, to the squalid alleys around Charing Cross to the coffee houses, where prostitutes plied their trade, to the work of artists such as William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds. Cruickshank uses memoirs, newspaper accounts and court records to create a surprisingly bawdy portrait of London at its most-mannered and, for the first time, exposes its secret, sinful underside. "A lively work of social history, full of surprises and memorable characters." - Kirkus Reviews
The Godfather of Downing Street
Author : John Beresford
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Book Description
The laird's secret
Author : Jane H. Jamieson
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 1885
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
The Secret Adversary (Illustrated) - Adapted for kids aged 9-11 Grades 4-7, Key Stages 2 and 3 US-English Edition by Lazlo Ferran
Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Lazlo Ferran
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
This US English edition features ten, unique illustrations throughout. A girl on the sinking liner Lusitania is given a secret packet to save by a mysterious stranger. Pursued by criminals and the British government, she goes missing, leaving amateur detectives Tuppence and Tommy to find her and rescue the packet. This version of the second Agatha Christie story has been specially adapted for kids from nine to twelve years old. The language and vocabulary are easy, and emphasis is on action using past, present and future simple tenses. Punctuation meets UK or USA ESL/CEFR/IELTS Level B2. Lazlo Ferran is a fully qualified English teacher and teaches in London. He has also published more than twenty novels, making him the ideal choice to adapt Agatha Christie’s stories for children. Vocabulary Stretcher and UK or USA ESL/CEFR Level B2 editions are also available. Classics Adapted by a Qualified Teacher Paperback available on Amazon: http://bit.ly/sadusgt Keywords: preteen, K12, K-12, detective, Agatha Christie, thriller, fun, age-group-9-12, classics, adaptations, crime, 1920s, Hercule Poirot, education, reading practice, classic, world war I, teaching materials, punctuation, sleuth, USA Grade-4, Grade-5, Grade-6, Grade-7, Grade-8, cozy, UK-Key-Stage-2, UK-Key-Stage-3, action, amateur, WWI, England, British, vocabulary, murder, small town, war, education books for 4th grade, education books for 5th grade, education books for 6th grade, education books for 7th grade, home learning 4th grade, home learning 5th grade, home learning 6th grade, home learning 7th grade, reading practise 4th grade, reading practise 5th grade, reading practise 6th grade, reading practise 7th grade, at home tutor reading, home learning 4th grade, home learning 5th grade, home learning 6th grade, home learning 7th grade, teaching materials for 4th grade, teaching materials for 5th grade, teaching materials for 6th grade, teaching materials for 7th grade, education books for 9 year olds, education books for 12 year olds, education books for 10 year olds, education books for 12 year olds, home tutoring books, home learning ks1, home learning ks1,
Secrets of the Foreign Office
Author : William Le Queux
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 1903
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
The Secret World
Author : Christopher M. Andrew
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300238444
Book Description
The first-ever detailed, comprehensive history of intelligence, from Moses and Sun Tzu to the present day The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do not understand past mistakes are likely to repeat them. Intelligence is a prime example. At the outbreak of World War I, the grasp of intelligence shown by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was not in the same class as that of George Washington during the Revolutionary War and leading eighteenth-century British statesmen. In this book, the first global history of espionage ever written, distinguished historian Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia--and shows us its relevance.
