Author: Yigal Sheffy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1135245703
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shortly after the end of the First World War, General Sir George Macdonagh, wartime director of British Military Intelligence, revealed that Lord Allenby's victory in Palestine had never been in doubt because of the success of his intelligence service. Seventy-five years later this book explains Macdonagh's statement. Sheffy also adopts a novel approach to traditional heroes of the campaign such as T E Lawrence.
Author: Matthew S. Seligmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-01-05
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0191514632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why did the British government declare war on Germany in August 1914? Was it because Germany posed a threat to British national security? Today many prominent historians would argue that this was not the case and that a million British citizens died needlessly for a misguided cause. This book counters such revisionist arguments. Matthew Seligmann disputes the suggestion that the British government either got its facts wrong about the German threat or even, as some have claimed, deliberately 'invented' it in order to justify an otherwise unnecessary alignment with France and Russia. By examining the military and naval intelligence assessments forwarded from Germany to London by Britain's service attachés in Berlin, its 'men on the spot', Spies in Uniform clearly demonstrates that the British authorities had every reason to be alarmed. From these crucial intelligence documents, previously thought to have been lost, Dr Seligmann shows that in the decade before the First World War, the British government was kept well informed about military and naval developments in the Reich. In particular, the attachés consistently warned that German ambitions to challenge Britain posed a real and imminent danger to national security. As a result, the book concludes that the British government's perception of a German threat before 1914, far from being mistaken or invented, was rooted in hard and credible intelligence.
Author: Stephen M. Harris
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780714646718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first scholarly work to focus purely on British military intelligence operations during the Crimean War.
Author: Jock Haswell
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Occleshaw
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ved udbruddet af 1. Verdenskrig var den militære efterretningstjeneste ikke synderligt organiseret, men i krigens løb blev den knæsat som et uundværligt led i krigsføringen. I bogen berettes om denne udvikling af den britiske militære efterretningstjeneste.