Security and Special Operations by C Murphy

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Security and Special Operations by C Murphy

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This volume offers the first comprehensive history of the Security Section of the Special Operations Executive and its relationship with MI5 during the Second World War. The book makes extensive use of recently declassified files in order to examine the development of liaison between the two organizations.

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Security and Special Operations by C Murphy

This volume offers the first comprehensive history of the Security Section of the Special Operations Executive and its relationship with MI5 during the Second World War. The book makes extensive use of recently declassified files in order to examine the development of liaison between the two organizations.

' Security and Special Operations is a significant addition to the burgeoning literature of the history of the Special Operations ExecutiveUsing recently declassified files from MI5 and SOE documents at the National Archives, Christopher Murphy is able to shed much new light on the troubled relationship between SOE, MI5 and SIS (MI6) during the Second World War, particularly over security issues.' - Richard Thurlow, University of Sheffield, UK

CHRISTOPHER J. MURPHY is currently an independent scholar, and was formerly Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary British History at the Institute of Historical Research.
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ISBN 13 9780230002418
ISBN 10 0230002412
Title Security and Special Operations
Author C Murphy
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Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year published 2006-10-10
Number of pages 253
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