A Matter of Intelligence: Mi5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees, 1933-50 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780719090790)

This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria. Based on the personal and organisational files that MI5 kept on political refugees during the 1930s and 1940s - which have only recently been released into the public domain - this study also fills a considerable gap in historical research. Telling a story of absorbing interest, which at times reads more like spy fiction, it is both a study of MI5 and of the political refugees themselves. The book will interest academics in the fields of history, politics, intelligence studies, Jewish studies, German studies and migration studies; but it is also accessible to the general reader interested in Britain before, during and after the Second World War.

Author: Charmian Brinson, Richard Dove
ISBN-10: 0719090792
ISBN-13: 9780719090790
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2014
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d