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Trade Review
'The explosive secret diaries of Guy Liddell, MI5's wartime counter-espionage chief.' - Sunday Express
'[a] unique insight into the espionage secrets of the Second World War by a major player ... its historical importance is enhanced by the editing of Nigel West.' - BBC History Magazine
'It is a major contribution to the Intelligence history of that war.' - Sunday Telegraph
'...now, for the first time, an extraordinary new book has lifted the lid on Ireland's secret war and revealed how - behind the facade of neutrality - the Irish Government was actually working hand-in glove with the Allies.' - Ireland on Sunday
'This book is a goldmine of once highly secret intelligence material ... no intelligence buff can be without this volume and anyone interested in British twentieth century history needs it too.' - The Spectator
'Regarded by historians as the most important military intelligence documents from the whole of the second world war.' - Irish Independent
'[A] unique insight into the espionage secrets of the Second World War. Its historical importance is enhanced by the editing of Nigel West who, apart from decoding several obscure references to the secret war, persuaded the Security Service to break their rule of maintaining an agent's anonymity.' - BBC History Magazine
'It is a major contribution to the Intelligence history of that war.' - Sunday Telegraph
‘The Liddell diaries are a superb addition of primary sources to the literature of intelligence.’ - Professor Hayden Peake
‘Definitely one of the most important Second World War intelligence documents to have been declassified in recent years.’ - Andrew Roberts
‘These staggering revelations about wartime intelligence will decisively change historians’ perceptions of MI5 and the conduct of the Second World War.’ - Tom Bower
‘His information is so precise that many people believe he is the unofficial historian of the secret services. West’s sources are undoubtedly excellent.’ - The Sunday Times
‘For pure textbook detail, the best is Nigel West’ - The Observer
‘A prolific writer on pre- and post-WWII espionage’ - Publisher’s Weekly
‘Leading historian of the British security services’ - Vanity Fair
‘An innermost corner of the secret war against Hitler, recorded night by night by the man who ran it: as an authentic source, beyond price.’ - M.R.D. Foot
Table of Contents
Selected Contents:Introduction Part 1: 1939 Part 2: 1941 Part 3: 1942
