The Secret War
An examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II--intelligence--shows how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.
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- If this sort of thing interests you, I can recommend [Max Hastings: The Secret War] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-War-Max-Hastings/dp/00075039...)
- Max Hastings makes the point in his book on intelligence in WW2 (The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945) that intelligence agencies always tell their political masters what they want to hear - this happens in democracies and totalitarian regimes.
It was presumably clear to those in MI6 that Blair had already decided to go to war, so what would have been in it for them to try and persuade him otherwise? Probably an early retirement at best.
