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Comprehensive guide to 100 years of spies and spying

Includes naval, military and air intelligence

Information on all the records kept by major archives and museums

Did you have a spy in the family, an ancestor who was involved in espionage at home or abroad? If you have ever had any suspicions about the secret activities of your relatives, or are curious about the long hidden history of Britain's secret services and those who served in them, this is the book for you.

Phil Tomaselli's fascinating guide to over. Too years of British spies and spying takes the reader on a journey through the twilight world of the secret intelligence organizations Britain has run since the Victorian period to the modern day, and it shows where their records can be found.

He looks not only at the two principal services MI5 and M16, but at every branch of naval, military and air intelligence. He includes Special Branch, PMS2, Indian Political Intelligence, SS1 and SS2, SIME, SOE, Bletchley Park and many other organizations, great and small, that have played a clandestine role in maintaining national security.
Though many records have been lost, deliberately destroyed or will never be released, enough material is available to give a detailed picture of secret service personnel, the jobs they did and the organizations they worked for. Phil Tomaselli provides tips on how to identify and interpret secret service documents and how to understand them in the context of the time they were written.

Phil Tomaselli has written extensively on family history topics, in particular for Ancestors magazine, and he has made a special study of the men and women who have served in the RAF and in the secret services. Among his many publications is Tracing Your AirForce Ancestors.