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*[[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
*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/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/celebratedspiesf00bart ''Celebrated Spies and Famous Mysteries of the Great War''] by George Barton 1919 Archive.org
