British Intelligence History
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Her Secret Service
- The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence
- By: Claire Hubbard-Hall
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contributions have been all but written out of history. Now, drawing on private and previously-classified documents, leading historian Claire Hubbard-Hall brings their gripping true stories to life.
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Her Secret Service
- The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 24-10-24
- Language: English
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Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contributions have been all but written out of history.
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Women in Intelligence
- The Hidden History of Two World Wars
- By: Helen Fry
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far from being a small part of covert operations, women ran spy networks and escape lines, parachuted behind enemy lines, and interrogated prisoners. And, back in Bletchley and Whitehall, women's vital administrative work in MI offices kept the British war engine running. In this major, panoramic history, Helen Fry looks at the rich and varied work women undertook as civilians and in uniform.
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Stop messing with the narration speed
- By Customer feedback on 16-10-24
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Women in Intelligence
- The Hidden History of Two World Wars
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 30-01-24
- Language: English
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A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, Women in Intelligence reveals their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century....
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The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers
- By: Richard Aldrich, Rory Cormac
- Narrated by: Tom Clegg
- Length: 25 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British Prime Ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith's Secret Service Bureau to Cameron's National Security Council. At the beginning of the 20th Century the British intelligence system was underfunded and lacked influence in government. But as the new millennium dawned, intelligence had become so integral to policy that it was used to make the case for war.
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Utterly fabulous
- By NickNoodles on 20-09-16
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The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers
- Narrated by: Tom Clegg
- Length: 25 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 21-04-16
- Language: English
- The Black Door explores the murkier corridors of 10 Downing Street, chronicling the relationships between intelligence agencies and the Prime Ministers of the last century....
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MI6
- Life and Death in the British Secret Service
- By: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
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The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created 100 years ago. Our understanding of what it is to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional worlds of James Bond and John le Carre. MI6 provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world and the reality that lies behind the fiction.
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A brilliant history.
- By mcfontaine on 30-03-21
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MI6
- Life and Death in the British Secret Service
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 25-03-21
- Language: English
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The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created 100 years ago. MI6 provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world and the reality that lies behind the fiction....
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MRF Shadow Troop
- The Untold True Story of Top Secret British Military Intelligence Undercover Operations in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1972-1974
- By: Simon Cursey
- Narrated by: Johnathan Rufus Welsh
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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For decades there has been argument in the media and amongst politicians about the possible existence and extent of a shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland. MRF Shadow Troop confirms there was such an agenda in the early, chaotic days of British military intervention across the Irish Sea. But amongst the mountain of speculation there is little of any accuracy or authority relating to this period.
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Murders Running Free
- By niallmcveigh on 14-05-22
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MRF Shadow Troop
- The Untold True Story of Top Secret British Military Intelligence Undercover Operations in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1972-1974
- Narrated by: Johnathan Rufus Welsh
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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For decades there has been argument in the media and amongst politicians about the possible existence and extent of a shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland. MRF Shadow Troop confirms there was such an agenda in the early, chaotic days of British military intervention....
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Hitler’s British Traitors
- By: Tim Tate
- Narrated by: Tim Tate
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
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Drawing on hundreds of declassified official files - many of them previously unpublished - Tim Tate uncovers the largely unknown history of more than 70 British traitors who were convicted, mostly in secret trials, of working to help Nazi Germany win the war, and several hundred British Fascists who were interned without trial on evidence that they were working on behalf of the enemy. Four were condemned to death; two were executed.
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The other side of the WWII legend.
- By Mary Carnegie on 31-08-19
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Hitler’s British Traitors
- Narrated by: Tim Tate
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 18-07-19
- Language: English
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Hitler’s British Traitors is the first authoritative account of a well-kept secret: the British Fifth Column and its activities during the Second World War....
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The Secret History of Flight 149
- The True Story Behind the Most Shocking Government Cover-Up of the Last Thirty Years
- By: Stephen Davis
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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On 1 August 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, and neither did its nearly 400 passengers. Instead, Flight 149 stopped to refuel in Kuwait, as Iraqi troops amassed on the border—delivering the passengers and crew into the hands of Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi army, to be used as 'human shields' during their invasion. Why did BA flight 149 proceed with plans to refuel in Kuwait City, even as all other flights were rerouted?
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The Story Behind The Story
- By S. Morris on 03-09-21
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The Secret History of Flight 149
- The True Story Behind the Most Shocking Government Cover-Up of the Last Thirty Years
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-07-21
- Language: English
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This explosive book is a story of scandal, betrayal and misuse of intelligence at the highest levels of UK and US governments—which has had direct, horrifying impact on terror attacks in the West and the shape of the Middle East today....
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Albanian Assignment
- The Memoir of an SOE Agent in World War Two
- By: David Smiley
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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In 1940 Winston Churchill established the Special Operations Executive to "set Europe ablaze". Three years later David Smiley and Billy McLean were parachuted into Northern Greece and crossed the border into Albania to do just that. For the next eight months Smiley mediated between the competing resistance factions and organized them to conduct ambushes and acts of sabotage on fascist armies and infrastructure.
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Albanian Assignment
- The Memoir of an SOE Agent in World War Two
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-08-21
- Language: English
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In 1940 Winston Churchill established the Special Operations Executive to "set Europe ablaze". Three years later David Smiley and Billy McLean were parachuted into Northern Greece and crossed the border into Albania to do just that....
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Queen of Codes
- The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker
- By: Dr Jackie Ui Chionna
- Narrated by: Melanie McHugh
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Anderson was a leading member of British intelligence for over three decades. She played key roles in both World Wars, worked in Bletchley Park and in the Middle East, and was among the top three female codebreakers in the world. She is famous in musicology circles as being the first to decipher the letters and diaries of Mozart and Beethoven. In 1961 Germany awarded her their highest honour, the Order of Merit First Class, completely ignorant of the fact that the interpretative skills they were honouring were the same utilised to defeat their military only a few years previously.
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Great weave of history and story
- By A M Keary on 28-04-23
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Queen of Codes
- The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker
- Narrated by: Melanie McHugh
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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Anderson was a leading member of British intelligence for over three decades....
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The London Cage
- The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre
- By: Helen Fry
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison in 1940: the London Cage. Here recalcitrant German prisoners of war were subjected to "special intelligence treatment." The stakes were high: the war's outcome could hinge on obtaining information German prisoners were determined to withhold. After the war, high-ranking Nazi war criminals were housed in the Cage, revamped as an important center for investigating German war crimes.
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Very difficult to listen to
- By Rachel Mason on 17-04-21
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The London Cage
- The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 21-11-17
- Language: English
- Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison in 1940: the London Cage....
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British Covert Operations in World War I
- The History of Britain’s Espionage and Dark Arts During the Great War
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Hadrian Howard
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
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World War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars”, was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite.
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British Covert Operations in World War I
- The History of Britain’s Espionage and Dark Arts During the Great War
- Narrated by: Hadrian Howard
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-04-20
- Language: English
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World War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars”, was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale....
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Foley
- The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews
- By: Michael Smith
- Narrated by: John Rubinstein
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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As the horror of Nazism tightened its grip on Germany, Jews found themselves trapped and desperate. For many, their only hope of salvation came in the form of a small, bespectacled British man: Frank Foley. Working as a Berlin Passport Control Officer, Foley helped thousands of Jews to flee the country with visas and false passports, personally entering the camps to get Jews out, and sheltering those on the run from the Gestapo in his own apartment. Described by a Jewish leader as "the Pimpernel of the Jews," Foley was an unsung hero of the Holocaust.
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Foley
- The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews
- Narrated by: John Rubinstein
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 21-06-22
- Language: English
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Foley is a story of courage and quiet heroism in the face of great evil—a reminder of the impact that one brave individual can have on the lives of many....
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