This unique book, based on full access to official records, exposes for the very first time the mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War. After distinguished service as artillery officer and aide-de-camp to General Haig during the First World War, Morton worked for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from 1919 to 1934, and was involved in secret operations against Bolshevik Russia and a resurgent Germany. Morton met Churchill on the Western Front in 1916, supporting him throughout the wilderness...

This volume documents the British Government s response from mid-1946 to early 1948 to the twin challenges of economic recovery and the search for a meaningful Western security framework in the face of the increasing polarisation of Europe into Eastern and Western spheres of influence.

Although relations between the wartime Big Three allies, the UK, US and USSR, had begun to fracture even before the end of hostilities in 1945, it was during 1947 that the postwar division of Europe became sufficiently alarming to prompt decisive action, under American and British leadership, to...

In 1998, Chief Historian of the Foreign Office Gill Bennett was commissioned by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to get to the bottom of a mystery that had haunted the Labour Party - and British politics more generally - for over seventy years. This is the story of what she discovered.