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MI6 - Life and Death in the British Secret Service (Paperback)
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MI6 - Life and Death in the British Secret Service (Paperback)
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The secret history of MI6 - from the Cold War to the present day.
The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded
in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. Our understanding
of what it is to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional
worlds of James Bond and John le Carre. THE ART OF BETRAYAL
provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world
and the reality that lies behind the fiction. It tells the story of
how the secret service has changed since the end of World War II
and by focusing on the people and the relationships that lie at the
heart of espionage, revealing the danger, the drama, the intrigue,
the moral ambiguities and the occasional comedy that comes with
working for British intelligence. From the defining period of the
early Cold War through to the modern day, MI6 has undergone a
dramatic transformation from a gung-ho, amateurish organisation to
its modern, no less controversial, incarnation. Gordon Corera
reveals the triumphs and disasters along the way. The grand dramas
of the Cold War and after - the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall,
the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 11 September 2001 attacks and the
Iraq war - are the backdrop for the human stories of the individual
spies whose stories form the centrepiece of the narrative. But some
of the individuals featured here, in turn, helped shape the course
of those events. Corera draws on the first-hand accounts of those
who have spied, lied and in some cases nearly died in service of
the state. They range from the spymasters to the agents they ran to
their sworn enemies. Many of these accounts are based on exclusive
interviews and access. From Afghanistan to the Congo, from Moscow
to the back streets of London, these are the voices of those who
have worked on the front line of Britain's secret wars. And the
truth is often more remarkable than the fiction.
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