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A Matter of Intelligence: MI5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees, 1933-1950
Charmain Brinson
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Description for A Matter of Intelligence: MI5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees, 1933-1950
Hardcover. Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; JFFD; JWKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria. Based on the personal and organisational files that MI5 kept on political refugees during the 1930s and 1940s – which have only recently been released into the public domain – this study also fills a considerable gap in historical research. Telling a story of absorbing interest, which at times reads more like spy fiction, it is both a study of MI5 and of ... Read more
This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria. Based on the personal and organisational files that MI5 kept on political refugees during the 1930s and 1940s – which have only recently been released into the public domain – this study also fills a considerable gap in historical research. Telling a story of absorbing interest, which at times reads more like spy fiction, it is both a study of MI5 and of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719090790
SKU
V9780719090790
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About Charmain Brinson
Charmian Brinson is Professor of German Studies at Imperial College, London Richard Dove is Emeritus Professor of German, University of Greenwich -- .
Reviews for A Matter of Intelligence: MI5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees, 1933-1950
"Given the wealth of literature that has appeared in recent decades on the victims of Nazism, it is now rare indeed for a book on the refugees from Hitler in Britain to open up to its readers an almost completely unexplored area of that history. Yet this is the case with Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove’s study, A Matter of ... Read more