Very Special Intelligence. The Story of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre 1939-1945. With a new Introduction by W.J.R. Gardner and a new After Word by Ralph Erskine. [Second Edition].
Very Special Intelligence. The Story of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre 1939-1945. With a new Introduction by W.J.R. Gardner and a new After Word by Ralph Erskine. [Second Edition]. | Rare and modern books | Beesly Patrick
Very Special Intelligence. The Story of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre 1939-1945. With a new Introduction by W.J.R. Gardner and a new After Word by Ralph Erskine. [Second Edition].
Very Special Intelligence. The Story of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre 1939-1945. With a new Introduction by W.J.R. Gardner and a new After Word by Ralph Erskine. [Second Edition]. | Rare and modern books | Beesly Patrick
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- Year of publication
- 2000
- Author
- Beesly Patrick
- Publishers
- Greenhill
- Keyword
- mstock, naval, ww2, royal navy, intelligence, enigma, ultra, patrick beesly, patrick beesly, military, wwii, ultra, enigma, very, special, intelligence
- Languages
- English
Description
8vo., Second and Best Edition, with 8 plates; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Beesly served in OIC from 1940; his account is the first to describe in detail its fight against Germany, excluding the Mediterranean theatre. A useful complement to Maclachlan but with the advantage that ULTRA was beginning to declassify and there is here much new material. Specific episodes include the sinkings of the Bismarck and the Scharnhorst, the Channel Dash and Arctic convoy PQ 17. A key text in the unveiling of ULTRA by a central player in its dissemination. The original edition of 1977 is now very scarce. This revised and updated edition redresses the context in the light of recent disclosures, retains all the plates and includes a revised bibliography. The original foreword by Mountbatten is replaced by Gardner's extended introduction and the (rather redundant) endpaper maps are omitted. Enser, p.127, 154; Law, 0816 (all recording the first edition)
