A Clear Case of Genius
Room 40's Code-Breaking Pioneer
Will be published approx. on 1. August 2017
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7509-8265-8 (ISBN)
Description
In 1933 the Admiralty banned 'Blinker' Hall from publishing his autobiography, but here, for the first time, those chapters that survived are presented in full. See what the renowned spymaster had to say about the British Naval Intelligence - the pinnacle of the world's secret intelligence services. He explores the function of secret intelligence in wartime, censorship, subterfuge, the significance of Churchill in the Dardanelles campaign, the Zimmermann Telegram, the USA's entry to the First World War and more. With supporting text and images by Philip Vickers and a foreword by expert author Nigel West, A Clear Case of Genius provides a unique insight into the thinking of one of Britain's pioneering intelligence leaders.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
32 Plates, black and white; 100 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
564 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7509-8265-8 (9780750982658)
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E-Book
08/2017
The History Press Ltd
€1.49
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Persons
REGINALD 'BLINKER' HALL (1870-1943) was the British Director of Naval Intelligence from 1914 to 1919, credited with being responsible for bringing the United States into the war in 1917 due to the decoding of the Zimmermann Telegram. PHILIP VICKERS is a member of the Royal Marines Historical Society and has written Finding Thoroton for them. He has been given the blessings of the Hall literary estate and the Churchill Archives to present Hall's autobiography in its full form. NIGEL WEST has written numerous books on security and intelligence topics and was voted 'The Experts' Expert' by The Observer. He is the recipient of the US Association of Former Intelligence Officers' first Lifetime Literature Achievement Award and has spent many years at the Counterintelligence Centre in Washington DC. His highly acclaimed works include Double Cross in Cairo: MI5 in the Great War, Operation GARBO: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II, Churchill's Spy Files and Spycraft Secrets (2017).