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This volume documents the British Government¿s attempts to encourage the development of a meaningful Western security framework in the face of the increasing polarisation of Europe into Eastern and Western spheres of influence after WWII.

In a book that lifts the lid on the making of British foreign policy, former Whitehall insider Gill Bennett reveals the inside story of six crucial foreign policy challenges since the Second World War, from the Korean War to the Falklands conflict - and how governments from Attlee to Thatcher responded to them.

In 1998, Chief Historian of the Foreign Office Gill Bennett was commissioned by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to get to the bottom of a mystery that had haunted the Labour Party-and British politics more generally-for over seventy years. This is the story of what she discovered.

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In 1998, Chief Historian of the Foreign Office Gill Bennett was commissioned by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to get to the bottom of a mystery that had haunted the Labour Party - and British politics more generally - for over seventy years. This is the story of what she discovered.

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Exposes the mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War. This book is useful to scholars and general readers with an interest in the Second World War, intelligence studies and the career of Winston Churchill.

The inside story of 6 crucial British foreign policy challenges since WWII, from the Korean War to the Falklands crisis. This shows not just why decisions were taken, but offers a unique glimpse into how history is actually made.

The mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, Intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War, is exposed for the first time in this study based on full access to official records. After distinguished service as artillery officer and aide-de-camp to General Haig during the First World War, Morton worked for the Secret Intelligence Service from 1919-1934, and the fortunes of SIS in the interwar yea...

Drawing on records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, this work focuses on Britain's role in the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions in Vienna, and British policy towards the Soviet Union and its satellites.

This study draws on previously unpublished records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other Whitehall Departments. It focuses on Britain's role in the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions in Vienna, and British policy towards the Soviet Union and its East European satellites. British reactions to detente between the superpowers are charted, and the work reveals official unease over what this might mean for the future of Europe.