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Defence Intelligence and the Cold War
Huw Dylan
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Description for Defence Intelligence and the Cold War
The first history of the Joint Intelligence Bureau - an organisation designed to preserve and advance British capability in military intelligence for the Cold War - shedding light on the largely unknown world of military and economic intelligence after 1945, and how this intelligence influenced British policies throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 black and white image. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTW; JPSH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 546.
During the Second World War British intelligence provided politicians and soldiers with invaluable knowledge. Britain was determined to maintain this advantage following victory, but the wartime machinery was uneconomical, unwieldy, and unsuitable for peace. Drawing on oral testimony, international archives, and private papers, Defence Intelligence and the Cold War provides the first history of the hitherto little-known organisation designed to preserve and advance British capability in military and military-related intelligence for the Cold War: the Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB). Headed by General Eisenhower's wartime intelligence man, Major General Kenneth Strong, the JIB was central to the mission to spy ... Read more
During the Second World War British intelligence provided politicians and soldiers with invaluable knowledge. Britain was determined to maintain this advantage following victory, but the wartime machinery was uneconomical, unwieldy, and unsuitable for peace. Drawing on oral testimony, international archives, and private papers, Defence Intelligence and the Cold War provides the first history of the hitherto little-known organisation designed to preserve and advance British capability in military and military-related intelligence for the Cold War: the Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB). Headed by General Eisenhower's wartime intelligence man, Major General Kenneth Strong, the JIB was central to the mission to spy ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199657025
SKU
V9780199657025
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99-3
About Huw Dylan
He received his PhD from the University of Aberystwyth in 2010.
Reviews for Defence Intelligence and the Cold War
well researched, using a rich pool of sources and seeming to overcome the inherent difficulties of accessing material related to intelligence issues ... a well written and thorough treatise of a not well known area of British intelligence
Paschalis Pechlivanis, European University Institute, European Review of History
Paschalis Pechlivanis, European University Institute, European Review of History