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1 online resource (468 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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9Counterblast: official history of British intelligence in thEpilogue; Bibliography; Archives of unpublished government documents; Private papers: Great Britain; Private papers: United States; Published documents, reports, diaries and autobiographies; Secondary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. |
| Summary |
Fascinating account of the British state's post-war obsession with secrecy and the ways it prevented secret activities from becoming public. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-425) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Official secrets -- Great Britain.
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Official secrets. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Moran, Christopher. Classified : Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107000995 |
| ISBN |
9781107308459 |
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1107308453 |
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9781107314009 (electronic book) |
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1107314003 (electronic book) |
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9780511734298 (electronic book) |
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0511734298 (electronic book) |
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9781107000995 |
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1107000998 |
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9781107659803 |
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