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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://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Battle_of_Brains.html?id=foLjjgEACAAJ Snippet Google Books] searchable, but not viewable, should become available to those in North America etc c 2026, and similarly on HathiTrust Digital Library. Also see a [[Western Front#Post War including British Occupation of Germany|postwar book below]]. The author was/became a news reporter and post-war foreign correspondent.
*[https://archive.org/details/pt-1-detective-secret-service-days/Pt1DetectiveSecretServiceP011-025/mode/2up ''Detective & Secret Service Days''] by Edwin T Woodhall 1929. Archive.org. Mirror from [https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1704 STOU Digital Repository] Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, the latter website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". 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. [http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rip-woodhall.html Details of the author] casebook.org. Elsewhere it is stated that Book II [digital Pt3] Chapter III "Military Ishmaels", page 143 is about Toplis who is discussed in an article,<ref>[https://pixelsurgery.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/secret-service-days-woodhall/ "Monocled Mutineer, Percy Toplis"] pixelsurgery.com</ref> and that . Chapter IV, "A Charming Spy", page 156 relates to Mata Hari, see below. 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 ''Fifty Amazing Secret Service Dramas'', available online, see below.
*[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
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063000031?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Intelligence Service within the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918''] by Major J E Hahn, James Emanuel late General staff, 4th Canadian Division CEF 1930 HathiTrust Digital Library.
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744646?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Secrets of the White Lady''] by Captain Henry Landau 1935 Missing at least [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030668340?urlappend=%3Bseq=23 page 13] which is found in a [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030668340?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 2nd digital file], also missing at least one page. Both editions HathiTrust Digital Library. The White Lady was the codename for an underground intelligence network which operated in German-occupied Belgium during World War I. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame_Blanche_(resistance) Dame Blanche (resistance)] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527793 ''Mata Hari''] by Major Thomas Coulson 3rd impression. Full title: ''Mata Hari Courtesan and Spy'', first published 1930. Archive.org.
:Also see Chapter IV "A Charming Spy" in ''Detective & Secret Service Days'' , relevant pages from [https://archive.org/details/pt-1-detective-secret-service-days/Pt3DetectiveSecretServiceP124-162/page/157/mode/2up 158] by Edwin T Woodhall 1929, mentioned above. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.425589/page/3/mode/2up ''Inquest on Mata Hari''] by Bernard Newman 1956. Archive.org
:[http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en/ark:/40699/m005450e5548f9dc Official French files Margueritte Gertrude Zelle] (French language), part of the database of those who were shot during the First World War. Click on the eye icons for the files. memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr. If this link is not permanent, try the website [http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/article.php?larub=211&titre=fusilles-de-la-premiere-guerre-mondiale Search], using the French version website.
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