- Paperback: 928 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (17 Jun 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743217780
- ISBN-13: 978-0743217781
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 546,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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13 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
very informative and excellent for students,
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This review is from: MI6: inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
I thought this book was not as acurate as could be and showed a very different view of waht the secret service is like. I believe a British civil servasnt would have told it from a differebt angle, however this view of the the secret service was very new, modern and refreshing. This would be an invaluble asset to students of British politics and administrative law.
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3.5 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews) 27 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
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Well written and subtle propaganda.,
By jb ny - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: MI6: inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
I read Stephen Dorril's account with some dismay. Far from a balanced treatment of MI6's impact on the Cold War, Dorril drops one suggestion after another pointing at the West as instigator of the Cold War. Amazingly, Dorrill treats the presence of Philby, McClean and other Soviet spies in MI6 as normal, as if a diversity of views should take precendence over the destructive effect Philby had on MI6/CIA activity and morale.This book portrays the Soviets as "victims" of Western treachery or buffoonery, a thesis that is itself a nice work of propaganda. Nevertheless, Dorril presents events that are factual, albeit framed to suit his goal of painting MI6 as a prime cause of the Cold War. Dorril frequently omits relevant information about similar or related Soviet activity, and selectively quotes protagonists to place them in the worst possible light. He has little to say about Soviet concentration camp atrocities (which spanned two decades) or Russian political intimidation and murder in Eastern Europe after the Second World War -- facts that inconveniently undermine his thesis. 12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Factoid Pigout,
By BGTattle - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: MI6: inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
Stephen Dorril's humungous (800+pages) history of the U.K.'s foreign intelligence service has a limited value. But for seekers of factual accuracy, reading this book takes care. I examined this volume mainly for its treatment of one of MI6's earlier Cold War adventures - Valuable: the effort to dump Albania's Enver Hoxha. Dorril's fairly thorough account is littered with errors and misinterpretations, i.e. naming Xhafer Deva, a World War II collaborator with Nazi Germany, as a member of a Free Albania Committee set up in the U.S. Deva never fit with the MI6-CIA affiliated FAC set up in Rome and New York. Dorril links directly episodes which, in actual time, were months or years apart, i.e. describing relations of the FAC and Assembly of Captive European Nations; the CIA set up the latter after the Truman administration's "containment" doctrine was dumped. Lest one think this is nitpicking, remember that all these factoids added togther as errors or accuracies can influence a book's value. If one episode is ridden with mistakes, why would one trust that the author's other episodes are any more reliable? Dorril ends most of his paragraphs with a footnote that usually includes multiple sources for what he writes in the paragraph. Far too many footnotes for this book to be a fun read. It is best used by a serious student of espionage who also has other sources on his desk.
19 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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brilliant,
By Paul Gelman "PAUL Y. GELMAN" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: MI6: inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
A most wonderful book.You won't have the chance of being bored even for one second.Every page is a blockbuster.Meticulously researched and -I believe-the first of its kind in depth of analysis.It will surely be the reference book on the subject for years to come.John Le Carre, you are having a heavy contestant in your field.
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