Spies in uniform : British military and naval intelligence on the eve of the First World War /
Did the British Government go to war in 1914 because of a well-founded fear of a German threat or did it, as some would now argue, send thousands to their deaths to fight against a danger, the existence of which was not even backed by any hard intelligence? To address this question, Spies in Uniform...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online. History module.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Did the British Government go to war in 1914 because of a well-founded fear of a German threat or did it, as some would now argue, send thousands to their deaths to fight against a danger, the existence of which was not even backed by any hard intelligence? To address this question, Spies in Uniform examines the information sent back from Germany by the Government's principal intelligence source, its 'men on the spot', the service attach--eacute--;s in Berlin. Using their. reports, previously thought to have been lost, the book demonstrates that the intelligence picture of Germany available to. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([14], 272 pages) : map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-268) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191514630 0191514632 9780199261505 0199261504 9780191718618 0191718610 9786610905294 6610905290 |