1999, ISBN: 0002559013

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[EAN: 9780002559010], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: HarperCollins], BIOGRAPHY MILITARY HISTORY AGENTS BRITISH GREAT BRITAIN 20TH CENTURY ADMIRALTY SSB AGADIR CRISIS SPIES MASTER SPYMASTE… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780002559010], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: HarperCollins], BIOGRAPHY MILITARY HISTORY AGENTS BRITISH GREAT BRITAIN 20TH CENTURY ADMIRALTY SSB AGADIR CRISIS SPIES MASTER SPYMASTER SPY INTELLIGENCE GATHERING PAYMENT SECRET SECRETIVE OPERATIONS MAJOR STEPHEN ALLEY BEF EXPEDITIONARY FORCE REAR ADMIRAL A.E. BETHELL BORKUM AFFAIR ERSKINE CHILDERS COMMITTEE OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE NAVAL CAREER BOOM PERSONAL LIFE ACCIDENT LEG AMPUTATION AMPUTEE DUTIES ACTIVITIES HEAD DIARIES EARLY PROBLEMS TRIPS OVERSEAS DUTCH LIAISON WITH RUSSIA FRANCE PETROGRAD STATION SWISS TRENCH BRANDON HEADQUARTERS FIRST WORLD WAR I WW1 WWI POSTWAR POST INTERWAR PERIOD FOREIGN OFFICE GERMANY SCHLIEFFEN PLAN GREECE REGINALD BLINKER HALL RELATIONS MAURICE HANKEY CHARLES HARDINGE HOLLAND RIVALRY VERNON KELL RESPONSIBILITIES HENRY LANDAU LOCKHART CONSPIRACY GEORGE MACDONOGH COMPTON MACKENZIE ARTHUR NICHOLSON OLIVER ROY REGNART SYDNEY REILLY BUREAU FINANCES BUDGET FRANK STAGG BERTRAND STEWART ALEXANDER JOSEPH SZEK TR16 BERNARD SPYING MISSIONS INSIDE ORIGIN YEAR AGENCY MI6 AGENT ESPIONAGE GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION RUNNING AFFAIRS WARTIME ACTIVITY DIRECTOR SIS PRE OPERATION ABROAD UK LEGACY AGREED ALLOWED ALREADY APPARENTLY APPOINTED ARMY ARRANGEMENTS AUTHORITY CAPTAIN CHIEF CLEAR COLONEL COMMUNICATIONS COURSE DEAL DIARY EVIDENCE FACT FRENCH FURTHER GERMAN IMPORTANT INTEREST INVOLVED ITALY KNOWN LATER LESS LETTER LONDON LORD MATTER MEETING NAVY ORGANISATION PASS PLANS PRESENT RECORDS REFERENCE SERVICE SECRETARY SHIP STAFF SUCCESSFUL, Jacket, Oversized hardcover, x + 501pp + 8 pages of glossy b&w plates, pictorial endpapers, NOT ex-library. Interior is gently age-toned with moderate age-spotting on page edges externally and in margins of pages. Age-yellowed upper outer page edges. Otherwise book shows little wear, interior is clean, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Untorn, unclipped, gently shelfworn dust jacket with mild edgewear. -- With exclusive access to Whitehall papers never before released into the public domain, prize-winning novelist and biographer Alan Judd tells the inside history of the origins and early years of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (M16) through the life of its founder and original 'C', Sir Mansfield Cumming. Cumming has until now been a colourful but frustratingly shadowy figure. From the day of his starting the Secret Service in 1909, however, until his death in 1923, he kept a secret diary, to which Judd has been given unprecedented access. The fact that neither the diary nor other papers Judd draws upon are unlikely ever to be made public makes this, therefore, not only the definitive account of the early M16 but also the most remarkable biography of the season. Cumming was a retired naval officer of fifty with an active career - including motor racing - behind him, when he was invited to form the Secret Service. At first he had no staff and subsidised operations from his own pocket, mounting them himself with disguise and swordstick. From these unlikely beginnings grew a sophisticated organisation that ran extensive spy networks behind German lines during the First World War and later intervened in Soviet Russia with telling effect. His legacy included not only an ethos that survives within the Secret Service to this day but the use by all his successors of his green ink and famous 'C' signature, as well as a reputation for eccentricity and flair gained by such antics as his sticking paper knives in his wooden leg and travelling the corridors of Whitehall on a scooter. The personal apart, this is an important contribution to twentieth-century history, essential not only to any understanding of later developments in British Intelligence but also to political and governmental attitudes of the time. -- Contents: List of illustrations; 1. Early Years 2. Coming Ashore 3. Why a Secret Service? 4. Formation and Frustration 5. The First Full Year 6. Gains and Losses 7. Learning Lessons 8. French Liaison 9. Preparation for War 10. War 11. A Wider Reach 12. TR/16 13. 1916 14. La Dame Blanche 15. The Szek Case 16. Attrition and Success 17. Peace but no Rest 18. Russian Adventures 19. The Big Battles 20. Victory; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index, Books<

2010, ISBN: 9780002559010

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Carols Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House Pub. Very Good. 2010. Soft Cover. 1414325479 299pp Photographs The untold story of Nonna Bannister a remarkable Russian-American girl and her tal… Mehr…

Carols Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House Pub. Very Good. 2010. Soft Cover. 1414325479 299pp Photographs The untold story of Nonna Bannister a remarkable Russian-American girl and her tale of the holocaust Previous owner's information marked out near upper outside corner of half-title page, otherwise book is AS NEW ., Tyndale House Pub, 2010, 3, HarperCollins, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Oversized hardcover, x + 501pp + 8 pages of glossy b&w plates, pictorial endpapers, NOT ex-library. Interior is gently age-toned with moderate age-spotting on page edges externally and in margins of pages. Age-yellowed upper outer page edges. Otherwise book shows little wear, interior is clean, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Untorn, unclipped, gently shelfworn dust jacket with mild edgewear. -- With exclusive access to Whitehall papers never before released into the public domain, prize-winning novelist and biographer Alan Judd tells the inside history of the origins and early years of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (M16) through the life of its founder and original 'C', Sir Mansfield Cumming. Cumming has until now been a colourful but frustratingly shadowy figure. From the day of his starting the Secret Service in 1909, however, until his death in 1923, he kept a secret diary, to which Judd has been given unprecedented access. The fact that neither the diary nor other papers Judd draws upon are unlikely ever to be made public makes this, therefore, not only the definitive account of the early M16 but also the most remarkable biography of the season. Cumming was a retired naval officer of fifty with an active career - including motor racing - behind him, when he was invited to form the Secret Service. At first he had no staff and subsidised operations from his own pocket, mounting them himself with disguise and swordstick. From these unlikely beginnings grew a sophisticated organisation that ran extensive spy networks behind German lines during the First World War and later intervened in Soviet Russia with telling effect. His legacy included not only an ethos that survives within the Secret Service to this day but the use by all his successors of his green ink and famous 'C' signature, as well as a reputation for eccentricity and flair gained by such antics as his sticking paper knives in his wooden leg and travelling the corridors of Whitehall on a scooter. The personal apart, this is an important contribution to twentieth-century history, essential not only to any understanding of later developments in British Intelligence but also to political and governmental attitudes of the time. -- Contents: List of illustrations; 1. Early Years 2. Coming Ashore 3. Why a Secret Service? 4. Formation and Frustration 5. The First Full Year 6. Gains and Losses 7. Learning Lessons 8. French Liaison 9. Preparation for War 10. War 11. A Wider Reach 12. TR/16 13. 1916 14. La Dame Blanche 15. The Szek Case 16. Attrition and Success 17. Peace but no Rest 18. Russian Adventures 19. The Big Battles 20. Victory; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index, HarperCollins, 1999, 2.5<

1999, ISBN: 9780002559010

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HarperCollins, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Oversized hardcover, x + 501pp + 8 pages of glossy b&w plates, pictorial endpapers, NOT ex-library. Interior is gently age-t… Mehr…

HarperCollins, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Oversized hardcover, x + 501pp + 8 pages of glossy b&w plates, pictorial endpapers, NOT ex-library. Interior is gently age-toned with moderate age-spotting on page edges externally and in margins of pages. Age-yellowed upper outer page edges. Otherwise book shows little wear, interior is clean, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Untorn, unclipped, gently shelfworn dust jacket with mild edgewear. -- With exclusive access to Whitehall papers never before released into the public domain, prize-winning novelist and biographer Alan Judd tells the inside history of the origins and early years of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (M16) through the life of its founder and original 'C', Sir Mansfield Cumming. Cumming has until now been a colourful but frustratingly shadowy figure. From the day of his starting the Secret Service in 1909, however, until his death in 1923, he kept a secret diary, to which Judd has been given unprecedented access. The fact that neither the diary nor other papers Judd draws upon are unlikely ever to be made public makes this, therefore, not only the definitive account of the early M16 but also the most remarkable biography of the season. Cumming was a retired naval officer of fifty with an active career - including motor racing - behind him, when he was invited to form the Secret Service. At first he had no staff and subsidised operations from his own pocket, mounting them himself with disguise and swordstick. From these unlikely beginnings grew a sophisticated organisation that ran extensive spy networks behind German lines during the First World War and later intervened in Soviet Russia with telling effect. His legacy included not only an ethos that survives within the Secret Service to this day but the use by all his successors of his green ink and famous 'C' signature, as well as a reputation for eccentricity and flair gained by such antics as his sticking paper knives in his wooden leg and travelling the corridors of Whitehall on a scooter. The personal apart, this is an important contribution to twentieth-century history, essential not only to any understanding of later developments in British Intelligence but also to political and governmental attitudes of the time. -- Contents: List of illustrations; 1. Early Years 2. Coming Ashore 3. Why a Secret Service? 4. Formation and Frustration 5. The First Full Year 6. Gains and Losses 7. Learning Lessons 8. French Liaison 9. Preparation for War 10. War 11. A Wider Reach 12. TR/16 13. 1916 14. La Dame Blanche 15. The Szek Case 16. Attrition and Success 17. Peace but no Rest 18. Russian Adventures 19. The Big Battles 20. Victory; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index, HarperCollins, 1999, 2.5<

1999, ISBN: 0002559013

[EAN: 9780002559010], D'occasion, très bon état, [SC: 2.83], [PU: HarperCollins], JUDD ALAN THE QUEST FOR C MANSFIELD CUMMING AND FOUNDING OF SECRET SERVICE, The book has been read, but i… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780002559010], D'occasion, très bon état, [SC: 2.83], [PU: HarperCollins], JUDD ALAN THE QUEST FOR C MANSFIELD CUMMING AND FOUNDING OF SECRET SERVICE, The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged., Books<