اطلاعات نظامی بریتانیا: اشیاء از موزه اطلاعات نظامی

Through a mix of objects, medals, photographs and documents held in the Military Intelligence Museum, the book tells the story of British military intelligence across the years, moving from its earliest object of the Waterloo medal awarded to the Duke of Wellington’s senior intelligence officer to items recovered from operations in Afghanistan. This fascinating collection includes a Boer War photographic stereoscope and uniforms worn by intelligence officers and other ranks during the First World War. Among the Second World War objects are a very rare highest gallantry medal awarded to a British officer by France, items that belonged to a founder of the Long Range Desert Group, an example of a pigeon coop used to deliver pigeons in Occupied Europe, a chess set used by captured Special Operations Executive operatives in Buchenwald concentration camp and copies of forged rations coupons dropped into Germany as part of Psychological Warfare Executive operations. The end of the war saw the Intelligence Corps heavily involved in arresting war criminals in Germany and Japan; among the objects are handcuffs used by a Field Security Section in Occupied Germany to arrest three high-ranking Nazi officials. During the Cold War, the Intelligence Corps role in collecting intelligence from those organisations hostile to British interests and protecting the Army from espionage, sabotage and terrorism is illustrated by several documents. The varied nature of these objects illuminates a feature of British military operations that is rarely discussed, despite having been frequently proven to be crucial to their success. Knowledge Gives Strength to the Arm – the Intelligence Corps motto. This book tells the story behind items in the Military Intelligence Museum from the Second World War, such as a chess set used by several SOE agents in Buchenwald.concentration camp, Himmler's shaving brush, a photo of Rudolf Hoess, the Commandant of Auschwitz, shortly after his capture by an Intelligence Corps Field Security and a world-beating collection of SOE equipment, including miniature cameras. Post-1945 items include a Warsaw Pact ZIL radio lorry, an example of a G-Wagon used by British Military Mission (BRIXMIS) in East Germany, a model of Smokey Joe's - a listening post manned by Intelligence Corps that intercepted Soviet telephone messages in Vienna when the city was occupied by the four Allies and photographic intelligence photographs, gadgetry, models and photos in the Medmenham collection. While technically not special forces in the conventional sense, the Intelligence Corps has been involved in special operations from its earliest days and has close links with elite military units such as paras and commandos as well as with various government agencies. During the Second World War, it provided a substantial number of linguists and analysts to Bletchley Park as well as agents, instructors and security staff to the Special Operations Executive. Its Field Security Sections played a key role in the defence of the country at ports and airports. This varied and exciting involvement in covert operations and the author's own experiences as an intelligence officer make this book a compelling and revealing read