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Cold War Spymaster: The Legacy of Guy Liddell, Deputy Director of MI5

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Book Title: Cold War Spymaster: The Legacy of Guy Liddell, Deputy Director of

Genre: The Cold War

ISBN: 9781526736222

Publication Year: 2018

Type: Textbook

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publication Name: Cold War Spymaster: the Legacy of Guy Liddell, Deputy Director of Mi5

Item Height: 234mm

Author: Nigel West

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LTD

Item Width: 156mm

Subject: History

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

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Guy Liddell was the Director of MI5's counter-espionage B Division throughout the Second World War, during which he wrote a confidential personal diary. Within its pages details of virtually every important event that had any intelligence significance during the conflict were recorded. Those recently declassified diaries, which were edited by Nigel West, have been followed by a postwar series which cover the period from the German surrender until Liddell's sudden resignation in May 1953. These eight years of the early Cold War contain many disturbing secrets, such as the cache of incriminating Nazi documents which was supposed to be destroyed by the SS. When these were recovered intact the British government went to considerable lengths to keep their contents from being disclosed, for they provided proof of the Duke of Windsor's contact, through a Portuguese intermediary, with the enemy during the crucial period in 1940 when the ex-king declared himself ready to fly back from the Bahamas and be restored to the throne. One of Liddell's first tasks, at the request of Buckingham Palace, was to retrieve and suppress the damaging material. Liddell's diaries were never intended for publication and are therefore filled with indiscretions that shed new light on MI5 investigations that he supervised after his promotion to Deputy Director-General. Many in Whitehall anticipated that Liddell would become Director-General but, as these pages reveal, he had employed Anthony Blunt as his trusted personal assistant, had found it hard to accept the evidence of Kim Philby's treachery, and had maintained an unwise friendship with Guy Burgess. Nevertheless, despite Liddell's manifest failings, and his reluctance to believe in the disloyalty of men he regarded as friends, he was probably the single most influential British intelligence officer of his era. AUTHOR: Nigel West is an intelligence expert and critically-acclaimed author. Such is his depth of knowledge in these fields that The Sunday Times noted that, 'His information is often so precise that many people believe he is the unofficial historian of the secret services. His books are peppered with deliberate clues to potential front-page stories.' In 1989 Nigel was voted 'The Experts' Expert' by the Observer. 16 b/w illustrations

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Pen & Sword Books LTD

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9781526736222

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Nigel West

Publication Name

Cold War Spymaster: the Legacy of Guy Liddell, Deputy Director of Mi5

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Subject

History

Publication Year

2018

Type

Textbook

Number of Pages

272 Pages

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234mm

Item Width

156mm

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Nigel West

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United Kingdom

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