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SPOOKS: The Unofficial History of MI5 From M to Miss X 1909-39
SPOOKS The Unofficial History of MI5 From M to Miss X 190939 Author:Thomas Hennessey, Claire Thomas The first ever complete history of MI5 in a series of three B-format paperbacks. Praise for the hardback published in May 2009: 'The first general history of MI5... definitive and comprehensive' THES will appear on the front cover. Interest in the British Secret Service has never been more intense, see the success of Ben Macintyre's ... more »Agent Zig Zag, the continuing popularity of James Bond and the phenomenally successful BBC TV series Spooks.Includes the origins of MI5 and amazing stories of MI5 agents during the First World War and the run up to the outbreak of the Second Word War.'PO Box 500, London W2' - the nondescript address from behind which one of the world's most famous secret services hid: MI5. Drawing on previously secret sources, this book lifts the lid on Britain's Security Service in its battle against German and Soviet espionage. It tells the sensational stories of the officers and agents and the enemies they confronted, from MI5's creation in 1909 under the direction of Vernon Kell, Britain's first spy master.Building on the service's wartime success, Maxwell Knight ('M'), MI5's charismatic and eccentric agent runner, penetrated Soviet and Fascist spy networks during the 1920s and 1930s. His agent, 'Miss X', was instrumental in breaking the Percy Glading spy ring run by the Soviets, while the beautiful Joan Miller and 'Miss Z' helped bring to justice Tyler Kent, who was passing information to the Axis powers.« less