The winner of the 2013 Longman-History Today Book Prize is the gripping and largely untold story of the role of the intelligence services in Britain's retreat from empire.
The largely untold story of the role of the intelligence services in Britain's retreat from empire. MI5 played a crucial but secret role in passing power to newly independent national states across the globe, and this is packed with incidents straight out of a John le Carre novel. 'A compulsively readable tale of loss of empire' "The Times"
