The Secret History of MI6

The Secret History of MI6Description by Keith Jeffrey Paperback The authorized history of the world's oldest and most storied foreign intelligence service, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documents Britain's Special Intelligence Service, commonly called MI6, is not only the oldest and most storied foreign intelligence unit in the world it is also the only one to open its archives to an outside researcher. The result, in this authorized history, is an unprecedented and

This is the story of the First World War’s forgotten land army

From the perspective of the allies

as well as exploring the way that human beings interacted with these extraordinary alien environments

In a work of extraordinary narrative power

For the first time in a generation

in Austria-Hungary

from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945

The result is a holistic overview of the war at sea as it affected all nations and all theaters of war

and of colonial soldiers more generally

including the notion that World War I was a war of navies as much as a war of armies

and London

this is the source on this seminal event