Christopher Andrew - Defence of the Realm

Praise for The Defence of the Realm

The most complete history of the agency ever published Time

Andrews scholarship is meticulous and extensive. MI5 could not have wanted a better historian than him. He has captured every important detail of the Service, but also its ethos and its place in England as an institution. Buy it National Post

Illustrates through the story of the security service, the way the values of our society and our politics have changed over 100 years Jonathan Powell, New Statesman, Books of the Year

Authoritative history The Globe and Mail

As complete and thorough as such a history may be and as engrossing as any spy novel Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times

Engagingly successful in bringing the spirit and the personality of the services culture and members through its complete survey. The common thread of keen intellect is evident... For those with the slightest interest in the intelligence world of the present and indeed the last 100 years, the book is assuredly essential reading Edmonton Journal

MI5 is the first major security or intelligence service in the world to give a historian free range of its records... it has been well worth the effort. The Defence of the Realm throws new light on an important area of the running of the country... It will be enthusiatically scrutinised by historians, intelligence buffs and conspiracy theorists Stella Rimington, Financial Times

Interesting, engaging... A fascinating read for lovers of espionage and security issues... Canada makes an appearance in Andrews narrative in the well-known story of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko who defected in Ottawa... Andrew has a sense of humour and has fun describing the early recruits to the service... His descriptions could have been the basis for a Monty Python skit Winnipeg Free Press

Compelling... an important book Irish News

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THE DEFENCE OF THE REALM

CHRISTOPHER ANDREW is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and former Chair of the Faculty of History at Cambridge University. He is also Chair of the British Intelligence Study Group, founding Co-Editor of Intelligence and National Security, former Visiting Professor at Harvard, Toronto and the Australian National University, and a regular presenter of BBC Radio and TV documentaries. His fifteen previous books include The Mitrokhin Archive volumes 1 and 2, and a number of path-breaking studies on the use and abuse of secret intelligence in modern history.

MI5s self-image at the end of 1917 on a Christmas/New Year card designed by its deputy head, Eric Holt-Wilson, and drawn by the leading illustrator, Byam Shaw. MI5, in the guise of a masked Britannia, impales the loathsome figure of Subversion with her monogrammed trident before he can stab the British fighting man in the back and prevent him achieving Mankinds Immortal Victory MIV (MI5 in pseudo-roman form).

(opposite) The Security Services all-seeing eye with a slightly unorthodox interwar Latin motto intended to mean Security is the reward of unceasing vigilance.

CHRISTOPHER ANDREW

The Defence of the Realm

The Authorized History of MI5

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List of Illustrations

Plates

1 Vernon Kell (Hulton Deutsch Collection/Orbis)

2 Major (later Brigadier General) James Edmonds (National Army Museum)

3 William Le Queux with his publisher (Frederic G. Hodsoll/National Portrait Gallery, London)

4 William Melville (By kind permission of Andrew Cook)

5 Gustav Steinhauer (in disguise) (Steinhauer, The Kaisers Master Spy: The Story as Told by Himself, John Lane/The Bodley Head Ltd, 1930)

6 Winston Churchill, Sidney Street Siege, 1911 (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7 William Hinchley Cooke in German military uniform (Service Archives)

8 MI9 Chemical Branch staff testing for secret writing (KV 1/73)

9 Carl Lody (Queer People by Basil Thompson, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1922)

10 Karl Mller (Popperfoto/Getty Images)

11 Maldwyn Haldane with Registry staff, 1918 (Service Archives)

12 Vernon Kell with heads of branches, 1918 (Service Archives)

13 Staff celebrating the Armistice on the roof of Waterloo House, 1918 (Service Archives)

14 Letter from Vernon Kell to staff on Armistice Day (Service Archives)

15 Maxwell Knight (Norman Parkinson Archive)

16 Jane Archer, 1924 (family archives)

17 Percy Glading, 1942 ( Metropolitan Police Authority 2009)

18 Melita Norwood, 1938 (Service Archives)

19 Melita Norwood, 1999 (Tony Harris/PA Archive/Press Association Images)

20 Message to Melita Norwood from her wartime controller, 1999 (by kind permission of David Burke)

21 Christopher Draper with Adolf Hitler, 1932 (The Mad Major by Christopher Draper, Air Review Ltd, 1962)

22 Christopher Draper flying under Westminster Bridge (The Mad Major by Christopher Draper, Air Review Ltd, 1962)