British Intelligence, Strategy and the Cold War, 1945-51

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ISBN: 9780415078511 | 0415078512
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/16/1992

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to the Soviet and American blocs. The Cold War is a prominent issue of our time, and this book will be of interest to students of international and modern political history, political science, international relations, and intelligence history.

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Notes on contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Intelligence, strategy and the Cold War	p. 1
Intelligence
Secret intelligence for a post-war world: reshaping the British intelligence community, 1944-51	p. 15
Anglo-Soviet intelligence co-operation and roads to the Cold War	p. 50
Covert action within British and American concepts of containment, 1948-51	p. 65
A very British crusade: the Information Research Department and the beginning of the Cold War	p. 85
British Cold War defectors: the versatile, durable toys of propagandists	p. 111
Strategy
'We must cut our coat according to our cloth': the making of British defence policy, 1945-8	p. 143
The 'Western Union' concept and British defence policy, 1947-8	p. 166
Britain's strategy for Europe: must West Germany be rearmed? 1949-51	p. 193
In the back room: Anglo-American defence co-operation, 1945-51	p. 215
The rise and decline of a strategic concept: the Middle East, 1945-51	p. 236
British strategy and the end of Empire: South Asia, 1945-51	p. 275
South East Asia and British strategy, 1944-51	p. 308
Select bibliography	p. 333
Index	p. 339
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