Cold War spymaster : (Record no. 74826)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | UK-LoPHL |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20181220160213.0 |
| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781526736222 |
| Qualifying information | hardback |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UK-LoPHL |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | UK-LoPHL |
| Modifying agency | UK-LoPHL |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 327.1241 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | West, Nigel, |
| 9 (RLIN) | 65530 |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Cold War spymaster : |
| Remainder of title | the legacy of Guy Liddell, deputy director of MI5 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Nigel West. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Barnsley, South Yorkshire : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Frontline Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxv, 262 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | I. The Duke of Windsor -- II. CORBY -- III. Klaus Fuchs -- IV. Konstantin Volkov -- V. BARCLAY and CURZON -- VI. PEACH -- VII. Exposure. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Guy Liddell was the Director of MI5's counter-espionage B Division, and from September 1939 to May 1945 he maintained a personal diary. Within its pages, details of virtually every important event that had any intelligence significance during the Second World War were recorded.<br/><br/>These diaries have recently been declassified and published, being edited by Nigel West. It was during this editorial process that Mr West sought to investigate Guy Liddell's activities beyond the end of the Second World War, resulting in the present volume.<br/><br/>The diaries themselves reveal many disturbing secrets. Amongst these are the contents of a cache of German documents that the SS were supposed to burn, but which were buried instead. When these were recovered, the British authorities went to considerable lengths to keep their contents from being revealed, for they demonstrated the activities of the Duke of Windsor during the crucial period in 1940-41, when Britain stood alone, threatened with invasion. They showed that the Duke was willing to act as an intermediary between Britain and Germany and was ready to fly back from the Bahamas to 'intervene' if required. It was implied that he was prepared to be restored to the throne if the situation required it.<br/><br/>Guy Liddell continued to work for MI5 after the war and it is this period that is the main focus of this present book, with further declassification of files from this period enabling Nigel West to expose the inner working of MI5 at the height of the Cold War. This study provides an intriguing insight into the day-to-day activities of a group of men and women dedicated to detecting and interdicting sabotage, subversion and espionage.<br/><br/>Liddell rose to the position of Deputy Director of MI5, and it was expected that he would become the next Director. But he worked with Kim Philby, employed Anthony Blunt as his personal assistant and socialised with Burgess and Maclean. His failure to spot these men as traitors led to his retirement from the Secret Services in 1953. Nevertheless, Guy Liddell he was probably the single most influential British intelligence officer of his era." -- |
| Assigning source | Taken from dust jacket. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 103307 |
| Personal name | Liddell, Guy Maynard, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1892-1958. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 11978 |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Great Britain. |
| Subordinate unit | MI5 |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 34909 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Intelligence service |
| Geographic subdivision | Great Britain |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 31130 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Espionage, British |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 50455 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Spies |
| Geographic subdivision | Great Britain |
| General subdivision | Diaries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 26890 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Cold War. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Suppress in OPAC | Do not suppress in OPAC |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| House of Lords Library - Palace | House of Lords Library - Palace | Dewey | 13/09/2018 | 3 | 21.00 | 1 | 327.1241 WES | 016457 | 28/01/2019 | 24/01/2019 | 25.00 | 13/09/2018 | Book |