Description: Britannia and the Bear : The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1, Hardcover by Madeira, Victor, ISBN 1843838958, ISBN-13 9781843838951, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Decades before the Berlin Wall went up, a Cold War had already begun raging. But for Bolshevik Russia, Great Britain - not America - was the enemy. Now, for the first time, Victor Madeira tells a story that has been hidden away for nearly a century. Drawing on over sixty Russian, British and French archival collections, Britannia and the Bear offers a compelling new narrative about how two great powers of the time did battle, both openly and in the shadows. By exploring British and Russian mind-sets of the time this book traces the links between wartime social unrest, growing trade unionism in the police and the military, and Moscow's subsequent infiltration of Whitehall. As early as 1920, Cabinet ministers were told that Bolshevik intelligence wanted to recruit university students from prominent families destined for government, professional and intellectual circles. Yet despite these early warnings, men such as the Cambridge Five slipped the security net fifteen years after the alarm was first raised. Britannia and the Bear tells the story of Russian espionage in Britain in these critical interwar years and reveals how British Government identified crucial lessons but failed to learn many of them. Th underscores the importance of the first Cold War in understanding the second, as well as the need for historical perspective in interpreting the mind-sets of rival powers. Victor Madeira has a decade's experience in international security affairs, and his work has appeared in leading publications such as Intelligence and National Security and The Historical Journal. He completed his doctorate in Modern International History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
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Book Title: Britannia and the Bear : The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 191
Number of Pages: 339 Pages
Publication Name: Britannia and the Bear: the Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LTD
Item Height: 234 mm
Subject: Government, History
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Author: Victor Madeira
Item Width: 156 mm
Series: History of British Intelligence
Format: Hardcover
