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  • Learning from the Secret Past

    Cases in British Intelligence History

    by Robert Dover, Michael S. Goodman, David Omand, Michael Herman, Peter Gill, Mark Phythian, Matthew Jones, Richard J. Aldrich, Eunan O'Halpin0, Len Scott1, Gill Bennett, OBE2 ...
    Identifying “lessons learned” is not new—the military has been doing it for decades. However, members of the worldwide intelligence community have been slow to extract wider lessons gathered from the past and apply them to contemporary challenges. Learning from the Secret Past is a collection of ten carefully selected cases from post-World War II British intelligence history. Some of the cases ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Churchill's Man of Mystery

    Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence

    by Gill Bennett ...
    Series series Government Official History Series
    The mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, Intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War, is exposed for the first time in this study based on full access to official records. After distinguished service as artillery officer and aide-de-camp to General Haig during the First World War, Morton worked for the Secret Intelligence Service from 1919 ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Zinoviev Letter

    The Conspiracy that Never Dies

    by Gill Bennett ...
    This is the story of one of the most enduring conspiracy theories in British politics, an intrigue that still has resonance almost a century later: the Zinoviev Letter of 1924. Almost certainly a forgery, no original has ever been traced, and even if genuine it was probably Soviet 'fake news'. Despite this, the Letter still haunts British politics nearly a century after it was written; it was the ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD

  • Six Moments of Crisis

    Inside British Foreign Policy

    by Gill Bennett ...
    Former Whitehall insider Gill Bennett unravels the story of six crucial British foreign policy challenges since the Second World War, from the Korean War to the Falklands conflict, offering an inside account of episodes that shaped Britain's position in the world for decades to come - and in some cases still arouse controversy to this day. Lifting the lid on the making of British foreign policy ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Transatlantic Storms in Anglo-American Relations

    How the Alliance Weathers Crises

    by William D. James, Greg Kennedy, Suzanne Doyle, Carson Teuscher, C. J. Jenner, Thomas Maguire, David Gioe, Wyn Rees, Michael F. Hopkins0, Emma Salisbury1, Andrew Gawthorpe2, Gill Bennett, OBE3, Louise Kettle4, Reja Younis5, Barbara Zanchetta6, Jonathan Esty7 ...
    An authoritative, in-depth study on the character, legacy, and trajectory of the UK-US allianceAfter the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, many observers declared the UK-US alliance—often dubbed "the special relationship"—dead. Yet this was hardly the first time the partnership was read its last rites. Indeed, one of its defining characteristics is its resilience in the face of ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • European Recovery and the Search for Western Security, 1946-1948

    Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Volume XI

    Edited by Gill Bennett, Patrick Salmon ...
    Series series Whitehall Histories
    This volume documents the British Government’s response from mid-1946 to early 1948 to the twin challenges of economic recovery and the search for a meaningful Western security framework in the face of the increasing polarisation of Europe into Eastern and Western spheres of influence.Although relations between the wartime Big Three allies, the UK, US and USSR, had begun to fracture even before ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Detente in Europe, 1972-1976

    Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume III

    Edited by Gill Bennett, Keith A. Hamilton ...
    Series series Whitehall Histories
    Drawing on records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, this work focuses on Britain's role in the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions in Vienna, and British policy towards the Soviet Union and its satellites. British reactions to detente between the superpowers are charted. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Six Moments of Crisis

    Inside British Foreign Policy

    by Gill Bennett ...
    Former Whitehall insider Gill Bennett unravels the story of six crucial British foreign policy challenges since the Second World War, from the Korean War to the Falklands conflict, offering an inside account of episodes that shaped Britain's position in the world for decades to come - and in some cases still arouse controversy to this day. Lifting the lid on the making of British foreign policy ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

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  • My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: Britain 1930-1997

    by Mike Wells ...
    Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-LevelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Downing Street Years

    1979–1990

    by Margaret Thatcher ...
    This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Weaponisation of Everything

    A Field Guide to the New Way of War

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged—and how to adapt to this new reality“This brisk everyman’s guide—straight-talking and free of jargon—is a useful tasting menu to a fast moving, constantly evolving set of problems. . . . A lively reminder that war adapts to technology, that civilians are part of modern conflict whether they like it or not.”—Roger Boyes, The Times ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A History of Modern Britain

    by Andrew Marr ...
    A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit.It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

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