BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, 1870-1914

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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: March 11, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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AR?'IC,.r. APP~~SRED NEW YORK TITIES BOOK REVIEW
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- Thomas. F. Troy, General Editor
BRITISH MILITARY -INTELLIGENCE9 1870-1914:
The Development of a Modern Intelligence Organization
by THOMAS G. FERGUSSON, Lt. Col. (USA)
With this work Colonel.Fergusson becomes the first author to publish in English a
detailed history of a modern military intelligence establishment, in this case, Britain's
department forboth strategicand tactical military intelligence from 1870 to 1914. Colonel
Fergusson skillfully narrates how the Intelligence Department at the War Office was
formed. He traces its revival under Henry Brackenbury, its role in the South African War,
and the development of a field intelligence system on the eve of World War 1. Throughout
the work the author covers the lives and accomplishments of such intelligence figures as
Thomas B. Jervis, Charles W. Wilson,-and Generals MacDougall, Brackenbury, Ardagh,
Robertson, and Henry Wilson. By examining the origins of one of the first intelligence
establishments, this book gives readers a rarely seen perspective on the role of intelligence
in modern history.
I have read the book of Lieutenant Colonel Fergusson and enjoyed it enor-
mously. lam quite sure it makes a positive and significant contribution to the his-
tory of the Intelligence development in the Western, world..
-Brig. Gen. B.A.H. Parritt
Director, Intelligence Corps
Commandant, Headquarters Intelligence Centre
Templer Barracks,. Kent, England
L $25.00 (cloth), 34 photos, 4 maps.
DONOVAN- D?-THR CIA:-
-A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency
by THOMAS F. TROY=
After serving for years as the CIA's own secret, internal history, this. massive work is
available to the general public for the first time. This book has no equal in its faithful
portrayal of the role of intelligence and espionage in recent American history.
It is one study of intelligence that merits that often overworked term: 'definitive. '
-The Washington Post
Donovan and the CIA is an invaluable study-authoritative, readable, and
thoroughly documented-of America's entry into the business of professional in-
telligence.
-Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
A great voluminous work-tremendous research.
-Sir William S. Stephenson
(better known as INTREPID)
The richness of its source material and the wealth of detail make the book a
unique resource for the subject and for the period.
-The Journal ofAmerican History
$29.50 (cloth), 41 photos.
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ENIGMA: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken,
and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War II
by WLADYSLAW KOZACZUK
Edited and Translated by CHRISTOPHER KASPAREK
Although much has been written about the use of ULTRA messages by the Allies
during World War II, no book until now has told the crucially important story of how a
group of Polish cryptologists broke the German Enigma cipher machine and how Polish
agents passed on to the British virtually all of the major techniques which the British later
used at Bletchley Park to decode high-level Getman communications throughout the war.
This new book makes clear for the first time the degree to which the British ULTRA
program-and, consequently, the entire Allied "Secret War" effort-depended on the
work of the Poles. Now we can read the authoritative account of the dramatic events
which led to the successful start of the ULTRA operation.
This book celebrates the unassuming men who performed one of the greatest
intelligence feats. of all time. It assembles on the bright stage of history the Polish
codebreakers who solved Germanys Enigma cipher machine. Using human and -
documentart, sources in Polish, English, French, and-German, Wiadyslaw Koz-
aczuk has written what may become the definitive account of an accomplishment
that, during World War Two, determined the fates of thousands.
-David Kahn, Author of The Codebreakers and Hitkrs Spies
$24.00 (loth), 38 photos.
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In this fast genuinely autobiographical.acoount.of a professtonat GRU officer's early
life, education, training. intelligence service, and break with the GRU, Colonel Akhmedov.
provides -us with a unique. insider's view of the.Soviet Union's foremost military
intelligence .organization,-the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet General Staff,
known as the GRU. Akhmedov, who now lives near Washington, D.C.. has written a
fascinating book about his adventure-filled life: his boyhood among the- Cossacks, the
hardships of the Great War and the Revolution, his recruitment by the Bolsheviks, and his
assignments in connection with his career in Soviet military intelligence-a disastrous
campaign in the Finnish War, a mission to Berlin for Stalin, an attempt on-the-life of
Germany's Franz von Papen in?urkey, and a debriefing by traitorous Kim Philby.Faced
with the prospect of his. own liquidation, Akhmedov. defected in 1942 .and is telling-his
story for the first time
Akhmedov's is the-orif book to .combine a?detatkd insiders vies- of Soviet - P
mtlitar)y Intelligence in thefield bird of the,Generot Staf level.. Xis f rsthand upon;
on the Soviet debacle m the invasion of Finland Ii wtprecedented.;This book
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