Plots and Paranoia by Bernard Porter
Intrigue, deceit, corruption, villainy, eccentricity, and violence - the many aspects of the fascinating story of Britain's "secret state". The secret state exists to protect Britain from the "enemies within". In the past it was supposed to have saved her from the terrors of the French and Russian revolutions. More recently it may have saved her from Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. Is this so? Do the spies, informers, political policemen, letter-openers and "buggists" deserve a place in Britain's history? "Plots and Paranoia" presents the history of Britain's covert counter-subversive agencies from earliest times to "Spycatcher". It disentangles the secret state from the web of myth which has surrounded it in the past. A lively and thought-provoking book, it ends by revealing a new, possible but unsuspected Soviet "mole", in a most unlikely place.
Bernard Porter, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, took his degrees at Cambridge University, becoming a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, before moving on to a Lectureship at Hull, a Chair at Newcastle and Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Yale and Sydney. His books include Empire and Superempire (a comparison between British and American 'imperialisms'), The Absent-Minded Imperialists and The Lion's Share. He mainly lives in Sweden.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415079006 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415079004 |
| Title | Plots and Paranoia |
| Author | Bernard Porter |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1992-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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