The Perfect English Spy

Sir Dick White, former head of MI5 and MI6, was Britain's most respected and experienced intelligence chief, serving under nine prime-ministers and playing a major role in military and political affairs from the rise and fall of Hitler to the secret bloodshed of the Cold War. This book draws on the author's extensive conversations with White to reveal the true role of the security services in Britain's triumphs and disasters of the past 50 years.