THE BLACK DOOR: SPIES, SECRET INTELLIGENCE AND BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS

Book ID/图书代码： 00530016B91249

English Summary/英文概要： ‘The Black Door’ explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith’s Secret Service Bureau to Cameron’s National Security Council.

At the beginning of the 20th Century the British intelligence system was underfunded and lacked influence in government. But as the new millennium dawned, intelligence had become so integral to policy that it was used to make the case for war. Now, covert action is incorporated seamlessly into government policy, and the Prime Minister is kept constantly updated by intelligence agencies.

But how did intelligence come to influence our government so completely?

‘The Black Door’ explores the murkier corridors of No. 10 Downing Street, chronicling the relationships between intelligence agencies and the Prime Ministers of the last century. From Churchill’s code-breakers feeding information to the Soviets to Eden’s attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, from Wilson’s paranoia of an MI5-led coup d’état to Thatcher’s covert wars in Central America, Aldrich and Cormac entertain and enlighten as they explain how our government came to rely on intelligence to the extent that it does today.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 从Asquith的特勤局，到Cameron的国家安全委员会，本书探索历届英国首相和情报机构之间不断发展的关系。

在20世纪初，英国情报系统资金不足，缺乏对政府的影响力。但随着新千年的到来，情报已经变得如此不可或缺，直接影响决策。现在，秘密行动被无缝地整合到政府的政策制定过程之中，而首相更是直接获取情报机构的信息更新。

但情报究竟是怎么会如此彻底地影响我们的政府呢？

本书带领读者走进唐宁街10号阴暗的走廊，记载情报机构和首相们之间的关系。包括丘吉尔的密码破译者向苏维埃告密，Eden企图暗杀外国领导人，Wilson对于军情五处政变的偏执，撒切尔在中美洲的秘密战争等等，作者Aldrich以及Cormac用娱乐和轻松的笔触解释了我们的政府是如何越来越依赖情报的。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：本书是你必须阅读的东西。Aldrich和Cormac真是不知疲倦的研究者，他们使用了大量的档案，其中包括一些无法透露来源的重磅材料。本书是非常重要、权威的著作。（Richard Davenport，《The Times》）

请及时阅读本书。（Daily Express）

这本书值得你的高度重视。笔者非常熟悉现代情报界的历史。（《星期日泰晤士报》）

‘Must read stuff. Aldrich and Cormac are inexhaustible researchers, who use a wide range of archives and include striking material from off-the-record informants. ‘The Black Door’ is a vital, authoritative book’ Richard Davenport-Hines, The Times

‘A timely read’ **** Daily Express

‘This book deserves to be taken very seriously. The authors are intimately familiar with the history of the modern intelligence community’ Sunday Times

Praise for Richard Alrich’s ‘GCHQ’:

‘Thoroughly engaging’ Daily Telegraph

‘Skilfully weaves together the personal, political, military and technological dimensions of electronic espionage’ Economist

‘Aldrich packs in vast amounts of information, while managing to remain very readable. He paints the broad picture, but also introduces fascinating detail.’ Literary Review

‘Richard J. Aldrich is an outstanding analyst and historian of intelligence and he tells this story well…an important book, which will make readers think uncomfortably not only about the state’s power to monitor our lives, but also the appalling vulnerability of every society in thrall to communications technology as we are.’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times

‘This is a sober and valuable work of scholarship, which is as reliable as anything ever is in the twilight world of intelligence-gathering. Yet there is nothing dry about it. Aldrich knows how to write for a wider audience, while avoiding the speculations, inventions, sensationalism and sheer silliness of so much modern work on the subject’ Spectator

About the Author/作者介绍： Richard Aldrich经常发表有关战争和间谍的评论，并为包括《卫报》、《泰晤士报》、《每日电讯报》等媒体撰稿。他曾发表过好几本书，包括《The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence》，该书于2002年赢得了Donner图书奖。

Rory Cormac是新一代情报历史学家中的权威专家。他尤其精通英国秘密行动和秘密外交政策，这也或许正是英国情报史上最令人兴奋的、也最需要研究的一个方面。他曾就安全问题在多家新闻社和媒体发表作品。他曾就读于伦敦国王学院，现在诺丁汉大学授课。

Richard Aldrich is a regular commentator on war and espionage and has written for the ‘Evening Standard’, the ‘Guardian’, ‘The Times’ and the ‘Telegraph’. He is the author of several books, including ‘The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence’ which won the Donner Book Prize in 2002.

Rory Cormac is a leading expert among a new generation of intelligence historians. Specialising in British covert action and secret foreign policy, perhaps the most exciting and under-researched aspect of British intelligence, he has published widely on security issues and has appeared on various news and media outlets. He studied at King’s College London and now lectures at the University of Nottingham.

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