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Secret Service and Spies
====Secret Service and Spies====
*[https://archive.org/details/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts''] by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org. Tuohy also wrote ''The Battle of Brains'' 1930, consisting of some true stories, some semi-fiction, about Secret Service/spies, much of which had appeared serially in the ''Graphic'', available at the British Library UIN: BLL01003689091 and also available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006523449 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University access.
*[https://archive.org/details/secretservice00geor ''Secret Service''] by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
*[[The National Archives]] series KV1 ''The Security Service: First World War Historical Reports and Other Papers'' is available as a series of free downloads from the National Archives website, [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C15043 catalogue entry]. This series contains the official history of the Security Service work during World War I. The duties of the Security Service were principally the control of aliens within and entering the UK, and counter-espionage within the UK and within the Empire.
*[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1704 ''Detective & Secret Service Days''] by Edwin T Woodhall 1929. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". Extracts from the book: [https://web.archive.org/web/20180804131912/https://pixelsurgery.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/edwin-wood-hall-detective-part-1.pdf "Book I" pages 31-122], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180804131357/https://pixelsurgery.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/toplis-sectret-service-days.pdf "Book II Secret Service Days", pages 125-162], of 282 pages in total. Archive.org. The 1937 edition was titled ''Detective and Secret Service Days''. The author chronicles his experiences beginning briefly with his early days in 1906 in the London Metropolitan Police Force, and then on to when he subsequently became attached to the CID at Scotland Yard, the Special Political Department, the Secret Service Department and the Special Central Department. Part of the book is discussed in an article.<ref>[https://pixelsurgery.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/secret-service-days-woodhall/ "Monocled Mutineer, Percy Toplis"] pixelsurgery.com</ref> [http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rip-woodhall.html Details of the author] casebook.org. He was also the author of ''Spies of the Great War : adventures with the Allied Secret Service'' by Edwin T. Woodhall 1932. Extracts from the latter book are included in [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.440855/page/n7 ''Fifty Amazing Secret Service Dramas''] c 1937? Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/redduskmorrowadv00duke/page/n7/mode/2up ''Red Dusk and the Morrow; Adventures and Investigations in Red Russia''] by Sir Paul Dukes, former Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service in Russia. 1922 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/operationkronsta00harr ''Operation Kronstadt : the true story of honor, espionage, and the rescue of Britain's greatest spy, the Man with a Hundred Faces''] by Harry Ferguson 2009, first published 2008. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. A daring naval rescue attempt in 1919, commanded by Augustus Agar, using Coastal Motor Boats (CMBs), to save the British agent Paul Dukes trapped in Russia during the power struggle between the former Tsarists and Bolsheviks.
*The following book appears to have been published under three slightly different titles: ''Memoirs Of A British Agent''; ''Memoirs of a British agent : being an account of the author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1918''; and ''British Agent'', by R H Bruce Lockhart 1932. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80541 Archive.org version]; two transcribed formats: [http://www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/BritAgent/BATC.htm#TC gwpda.org] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20160417185309/http://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/Lockhart-MemoirsBritishAgent.pdf spyculture.com], now archived. [https://www.spyculture.com/profile-robert-bruce-lockhart/ Profile: Robert Bruce Lockhart] spyculture.com. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._H._Bruce_Lockhart R. H. Bruce Lockhart] Wikipedia.
:[https://archive.org/details/diariesofsirrobe0000lock ''The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. Volume One 1915-1938''] edited by Kenneth Young 1973. Archive.org Lending Library
*''Reilly : Ace of Spies'' by Robin Bruce Lockhart 1984. Originally published 1967 as ''Ace of Spies''. [https://archive.org/details/reilly00robi Digital book file 1], [https://archive.org/details/reillyaceofspies00lock Digital book file 2] Archive.org Lending Library. The author was the son of Robert Bruce Lockhart above who was one of Sidney Reilly's fellow spies. A television miniseries was made in 1983, based on the book. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reilly,_Ace_of_Spies Reilly, Ace of Spies] Wikipedia.
:[https://archive.org/details/masterspytruesto00vand ''Master Spy : a true story of Allied espionage in Bolshevik Russia''] by Edward Van Der Rhoer 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. About Sidney George Reilly.
 
*[https://archive.org/details/mysecretservicev00manwrich ''My Secret Service: Vienna--Sophia--Constantinople--Nish--Belgrade--Asia Minor, etc''] by 'The Man Who Dined With the Kaiser' 1916. Archive.org. The author was in Constantinople when the evacuation of Gallipoli was announced. [http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23605620 A press report of the time] indicates the author was a special reporter representing the London ''Daily Mail'', and speculates he was a Dutchman.
*[https://archive.org/details/secretsofgermanw00gravuoft/page/n9 ''The Secrets of the German War Office''] by Dr Armgaard Karl Graves (pseud) and Edward Lyell Fox 2nd printing 1914. Archive.org. "Written by the ghostwriter Edward Lyell Fox, the book contained a fair amount of fairy tales, but was also interspersed with details of Graves’ espionage career in both [German and British] services".<ref>Clarke, Jon. [https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=215688 Book: "The Secrets of the German War Office"] ''Axis History Forum'' 18 May 2015, quoting Thomas Boghardt's book ''Spies Of The Kaiser''. Retrieved 4 October 2019.</ref> [https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/first-world-war/the-kaisers-spy-in-scotland-naval-espionage-before-the-great-war "The Kaiser's Spy in Scotland - Naval Espionage before the Great War"] National Records of Scotland.
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