Product Description

After 1945, London, Washington, Moscow and Peking were dominated by fear of a 'nuclear Pearl Harbour', and the need for better warning systems allowed the Western intelligence community to grow to unprecedented size and power. The conflict proved explosive, with bitter arguments over provocation threatening to tear Western capitals apart. Britain believed that the U.S. were bent on provoking a Third World War in which Britain would be obliterated. Here, Aldrich shows how the 'hidden hand' enabled Britain to extend its power over the U.S. in a time of military decline, and how the U.S. secret services allowed the extension of Presidential power over U.S. foreign policy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #243998 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 735 pages

Review
"'Rivetting, and essential reading not only for intelligence specialists but for everyone interested in the Cold War and in British-American relations' Christopher Andrew 'A triumph of assiduous research and cogent analysis' Sunday Telegraph"

John Booth, Tribune
Aldrich's meticulously factual account of British and American spookery...is hugely impressive

George Walden, Evening Standard
A truly brilliant book...this is intelligence for adults, and all the more enthralling for it