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Classified : Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain.
Fascinating account of the British state's post-war obsession with secrecy and the ways it prevented secret activities from becoming public.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781107308459
- ISBN: 1107308453
- ISBN: 9781107314009
- ISBN: 1107314003
- ISBN: 9780511734298
- ISBN: 0511734298
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (468 pages)
- Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-425) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Secret Britain: historiographical considerations; Methodology; Part 1 1889-1945; 1 Laying the foundations of control; 2 Bending the rules: ministers and their memoirs 1920-1945; Part II Secrecy and the press; 3 Chapman Pincher: sleuthing the secret state; 4 Britains Watergate: the D-Notice Affair and consequences; 5 Publish and be damned; Part III Secrecy and political memoirs; 6 Cabinet confessions: from Churchill to Crossman; Part IV Intelligence secrets, spy memoirs and official histories. 7 Keeping the secrets of wartime deception: Ultra and Double-Cross8 SOE in France; 9 Counterblast: official history of British intelligence in the Second World War; EPILOGUE: FROM WRIGHT TO WIKILEAKS; Notes; Introduction; 1 Laying the foundations of control; 2 Bending the rules: ministers and their memoirs, 1920-1945; 3 Chapman Pincher: sleuthing the secret state; 4 Britains Watergate: the D-Notice Affair and consequences; 5 Publish and be damned; 6 Cabinet confessions: from Churchill to Crossman; 7 Keeping the secrets of wartime deception: Ultra and Double-Cross; 8 SOE in France. 9Counterblast: official history of British intelligence in thEpilogue; Bibliography; Archives of unpublished government documents; Private papers: Great Britain; Private papers: United States; Published documents, reports, diaries and autobiographies; Secondary literat; Index. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Official secrets > Great Britain. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
