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Praise for The Defence of the Realm
    â€˜The most complete history of the agency ever published’ Time
    â€˜Andrew’s scholarship is meticulous and extensive. MI5 could not have wanted a better historian than him. He has captured every important detail of the Service, but also its ethos and its place in England as an institution. Buy it’ National Post
    â€˜Illustrates through the story of the security service, the way the values of our society and our politics have changed over 100 years’ Jonathan Powell, New Statesman , Books of the Year
    â€˜Authoritative history’ The Globe and Mail
    â€˜As complete and thorough as such a history may be and as engrossing as any spy novel’ Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
    â€˜Engagingly successful in bringing the spirit and the personality of the service’s culture and members through its complete survey. The common thread of keen intellect is evident . . . For those with the slightest interest in the intelligence world of the present and indeed the last 100 years, the book is assuredly essential reading’ Edmonton Journal
    â€˜MI5 is the first major security or intelligence service in the world to give a historian free range of its records . . . it has been well worth the effort. The Defence of the Realm throws new light on an important area of the running of the country . . . It will be enthusiatically scrutinised by historians, intelligence buffs and conspiracy theorists’ Stella Rimington, Financial Times
    â€˜Interesting, engaging . . . A fascinating read for lovers of espionage and security issues . . . Canada makes an appearance in Andrew’s narrative in the well-known story of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko who defected in Ottawa . . . Andrew has a sense of humour and has fun describing the early recruits to the service . . . His descriptions could have been the basis for a Monty Python skit’ Winnipeg Free Press
    â€˜Compelling . . . an important book’ Irish News

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    THE DEFENCE OF THE REALM
    CHRISTOPHER ANDREW is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and former Chair of the Faculty of History at Cambridge University. He is also Chair of the British Intelligence Study Group, founding Co-Editor of Intelligence and National Security , former Visiting Professor at Harvard, Toronto and the Australian National University, and a regular presenter of BBC Radio and TV documentaries. His fifteen previous books include The Mitrokhin Archive volumes 1 and 2, and a number of path-breaking studies on the use and abuse of secret intelligence in modern history.
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    MI5’s self-image at the end of 1917 on a Christmas/New Year card designed by its deputy head, Eric Holt-Wilson, and drawn by the leading illustrator, Byam Shaw. MI5, in the guise of a masked Britannia, impales the loathsome figure of Subversion with her monogrammed trident before he can stab the British fighting man in the back and prevent him achieving ‘Mankind’s Immortal Victory’ – MIV (MI5 in pseudo-roman form).
    ( opposite ) The Security Service’s all-seeing eye with a slightly unorthodox interwar Latin motto intended to mean ‘Security is the reward of unceasing vigilance.’

CHRISTOPHER ANDREW
    The Defence of the Realm
    The Authorized History of MI5
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