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The Secret History Of MI6 (2010)

by Keith Jeffery(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1594202745 (ISBN13: 9781594202742)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Penguin Press (NY)

review 1: Keith Jeffery had a tough task with this book, I assume he had ti carry out difficult research that was understandably censored at times while at the same time being able to access information previously inaccessible. Completing this book was no doubt a great achievement, ultimately though I was disappointed. Sufficient consideration was not given to what should be included in this book and what should not it has some fascinating and important information and some facts which should have just been kept as notes this leads to poor narrative. Quotations are severely overused which also leads to poor narrative and a fairly turgid read. That's not to belittle, of course, Keith Jeffery's clear research abilities.
review 2: I'm mixed about this book. I enjoyed the f... moreact that it was close look at politics and how it can effect governmental business, yet at times it was incredibly dry. This was particularly frustating because sometimes you wanted more of the sensational. Jeffery mentions a flight from the Nazis in Norway, in one line. But apparently the diary about it was gripping. So it gets just one line? Makes no sense. I mean I can understand downplaying Flemming and Reilly, but really.Yet parts of the book, like the different roles, how the politics influenced posting and so on, were interesting. The book really drags for the first 75 pages, picks up, drags again until WWII and then drags. But it is still an interesting read. less

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