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The Secret State - Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010 (Paperback)
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The Secret State - Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010 (Paperback)
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Peter Hennessy's The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst
1945-2010 is the story of secret government plans for combatting
attacks on Britain, from the Cold War to modern counter-terrorism.
Now completely revised and updated, Peter Hennessy's acclaimed
account of the secret state includes material from a host of
recently declassified documents, to give an up-to-date picture of
Whitehall's efforts to defend the safety of the realm. What were
the secret plans for Britain if World War Three had erupted and
'breakdown' had occurred? When would the Queen have been informed
and where would she have gone? How does the contingency planning
for a national emergency work today? By what procedures would the
Prime Minister authorise a nuclear strike and how would those
orders be carried out? This book now gives the most detailed and
authoritative answers to all these questions. 'Riveting,
path-breaking and wonderfully readable' Christopher Andrew, The
Times 'Effective and vivid ... One of the fascinations of this book
is the bureaucratic aridity to which Whitehall reduced concepts of
bloodcurdling awfulness' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph 'An
insider's insider, if ever there was one' Anthony Howard, New
Statesman 'One of those rare books that reflects credit not only on
the author but on its subjects too' John Crace, Guardian Peter
Hennessy is Attlee Professor of History at Queen Mary College,
London, and the Director of the Mile End Institute of Contemporary
British Government, Intelligence and Society. He is the author of
Never Again: Britain 1945-51 (winner of the NCR and Duff Cooper
Prizes); the bestselling The Prime Minister and The Secret State.
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