British Secret Service During the Great War (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Historical Account of Spies & Agents in WWIBy Nicholas Everitt
Length11h 55m
About this audiobook
British Secret Service During the Great War is an early twentieth-century account of espionage, counter-espionage, surveillance, and covert communication in the First World War. Written in a brisk, documentary style enriched by anecdote, exposé, and patriotic urgency, it belongs to the postwar literature that sought to explain the hidden machinery behind victory. Everitt presents secret service not as romance alone, but as an administrative, psychological, and moral contest conducted in ports, offices, embassies, and occupied territories. Nicholas Everitt remains a comparatively obscure figure, yet the book suggests a writer closely attentive to wartime intelligence culture and to the public fascination that followed the Armistice. His perspective is shaped by the atmosphere of total war, when censorship, propaganda, naval blockade, and the fear of enemy agents transformed ordinary civic life into a field of suspicion. That historical proximity gives the work its immediacy and its limitations. Readers interested in the origins of modern intelligence history will find this volume valuable. It is especially recommended to students of the Great War, espionage writing, and British patriotic nonfiction, provided it is read critically as both testimony and period artifact.
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Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length11 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 7, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Glory of the Trenches (Annotated)
2FOREWORD
3INTRODUCTION
4CHAPTER I WAR AND THE INTRODUCING OF JIM
5CHAPTER II SECRET SERVICE ORGANISATIONS, COMPARISONS, AND INCIDENTALS
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6CHAPTER III INITIATION TO ACTIVE WORK
7CHAPTER IV INTERCOMMUNICATING WITH TEMPORARY CODES AND INCIDENTS
8CHAPTER V LOCATING GERMAN MINE-LAYERS
9CHAPTER VI DEPOSING A RIVAL
10CHAPTER VII FIGHTING GERMAN AGENTS WITH FAKED WEAPONS
11CHAPTER VIII ESCAPING FROM THE CLUTCHES OF A VERY CLEVER LADY
12CHAPTER IX WILD-FOWLING EXTRAORDINARY AND TRAWLING FOR SUBMARINES IN NEUTRAL WATERS
13CHAPTER X THE MYSTERIOUS HARBOUR
14HAPTER XI MAD GAMBLING AND A BIG BRIBE
15CHAPTER XII SHADOWED BY POLICE
16CHAPTER XIII DODGING FRONTIER GUARDS AND SEARCHING FOR ONE'S SELF
17CHAPTER XIV AVOIDING COLD MURDER
18CHAPTER XV ESCAPING FROM A SUBMARINE
19CHAPTER XVI THE CASEMENT AFFAIR
20CHAPTER XVII PERTAINING TO MYSTERY SHIPS
21CHAPTER XVIII THE SINKING OF THE "LUSITANIA" BY GERMAN TREACHERY
22CHAPTER XIX MINISTERIAL, DIPLOMATIC, AND CONSULAR FAILINGS
23CHAPTER XX THE SHAM BLOCKADE
24L'ENVOI
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