The authorized history of the world's oldest foreign intelligence service, drawing on hitherto secret documents. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) was born a century ago amid fears of the rising power of other countries, especially Germany. The next 40 years saw MI6 taking an increasingly important & largely hidden role in shaping history.
Chapter 1. The beginnings of the Service
Chapter 2. Status, organisation and expertise
Chapter 3. Operations in the West
Chapter 4. Working further afield
Chapter 5. The emergence of SIS
Chapter 6. From Boche to Bolsheviks
Chapter 8. Existing on a shoestring
Chapter 11. The European theatre
Chapter 12. From Budapest to Baghdad
Chapter 15. From Switzerland to Normandy
Chapter 17. Asia and the end of the war
Chapter 19. Adjusting to peace
Chapter 20. Deployment and operations in Europe
Chapter 21. A worldwide Service
Chapter 22. SIS: leadership and performance over the first forty years