MI6
Life and Death in the British Secret Service
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MI6
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Narrated by:
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Gordon Corera
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By:
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Gordon Corera
About this listen
The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created over a century ago. Our understanding of what it is to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional worlds of James Bond and John le Carré. In MI6, security expert Gordon Corera provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world and the reality that lies behind the fiction.
It tells the story of how the secret service has changed since the end of the Second World War, revealing the danger, the drama, the intrigue, the moral ambiguities and the occasional comedy that comes with working for British intelligence.
The grand dramas of the Cold War and its aftershocks - the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 9/11 and the Iraq war - are the backdrop for the human stories of the individual spies at the centre of the narrative. Corera draws on the first-hand accounts of those who have spied, lied and in some cases nearly died in service of the state. They range from the spymasters to the agents they ran to their sworn enemies. From Afghanistan to the Congo, from Moscow to the back streets of London, these are the voices of those who have worked on the front line of Britain's secret wars. And the truth is often more remarkable than the fiction.©2021 Gordon Corera (P)2021 Orion Publishing Group
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- S.Attenborough
- 03-04-2023
Read at You
This book is just another spoiled by the narrator. No paragraphs no pause..deleted sadly.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Charles Frewen
- 11-05-2021
Textbook!
The info was there and smewhat interesting but it was like having a text book written in 240 pages without any paragraphs just read AT you.
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