1st Edition

The Guy Liddell Diaries Vol.II: 1942-1945 MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II

Edited By Nigel West Copyright 2005
332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service’s most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5’s Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was considered so highly classified that it was retained in the safe of successive Directors-General, and special permission was required to read... Read more

@contents:Selected Contents:Part I: Personalities  Part II: Executions  Part III: Establishments  Introduction  Editor’s Note  The Diary  Glossary of Operational Codenames

Biography

Nigel West is a military historian specialising in security and intelligence topics. He lectures at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies in Washington DC and is the European editor of the World Intelligence Review. In 1989 he was elected ‘the Experts’ Expert’ by the Observer and in 2003 he was the recipient of the US Association of Former Intelligence Officers’ Lifetime Literature Achievement Award.