Free The Defence of the Realm by Christopher Andrew Page A

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List of Illustrations
    Plates
    1  Vernon Kell (Hulton Deutsch Collection/Orbis)
    2  Major (later Brigadier General) James Edmonds (National Army Museum)
    3  William Le Queux with his publisher (Frederic G. Hodsoll/National Portrait Gallery, London)
    4  William Melville (By kind permission of Andrew Cook)
    5  Gustav Steinhauer (in disguise) (Steinhauer, The Kaiser’s Master Spy: The Story as Told by Himself , John Lane/The Bodley Head Ltd, 1930)
    6  Winston Churchill, Sidney Street Siege, 1911 (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    7  William Hinchley Cooke in German military uniform (Service Archives)
    8  MI9 Chemical Branch staff testing for secret writing (KV 1/73)
    9  Carl Lody ( Queer People by Basil Thompson, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1922)
    10  Karl Müller (Popperfoto/Getty Images)
    11  Maldwyn Haldane with Registry staff, 1918 (Service Archives)
    12  Vernon Kell with heads of branches, 1918 (Service Archives)
    13  Staff celebrating the Armistice on the roof of Waterloo House, 1918 (Service Archives)
    14  Letter from Vernon Kell to staff on Armistice Day (Service Archives)
    15  Maxwell Knight (Norman Parkinson Archive)
    16  Jane Archer, 1924 (family archives)
    17  Percy Glading, 1942 (© Metropolitan Police Authority 2009)
    18  Melita Norwood, 1938 (Service Archives)
    19  Melita Norwood, 1999 (Tony Harris/PA Archive/Press Association Images)
    20  Message to Melita Norwood from her wartime controller, 1999 (by kind permission of David Burke)
    21  Christopher Draper with Adolf Hitler, 1932 ( The Mad Major by Christopher Draper, Air Review Ltd, 1962)
    22  Christopher Draper flying under Westminster Bridge ( The Mad Major by Christopher Draper, Air Review Ltd, 1962)
    23  Wolfgang zu Putlitz’s passport in the name of William Putter, 1938 (Service Archives)
    24  Jona ‘Klop’ Ustinov, 1920 (Service Archives)
    25  Dick White, c . 1939 (Service Archives)
    26  Staff relaxing at Wormwood Scrubs, 1940 (Service Archives)
    27  Wormwood Scrubs office, November 1939 (Mary Evans Picture Library/Illustrated London News)
    28  Vernon Kell at Wormwood Scrubs, 1940